The NIBA & DePaul University’s Arditti Center for Risk Management Present:
2016 NIBA/ DePaul University Futures Event
 
The NIBA is once again honored to be working with DePaul University’s Arditti Center. Industry participants are invited to attend an informative and instructive afternoon of sessions focusing on cyber-security and managed futures. Sessions will be followed by a networking cocktail event.
 
Attendees receive FREE AML and Cybersecurity Training online from Exchange Analytics. NIBA members who attend the conference will receive a FREE online code (a $60 value) to take AML and Cybersecurity Training courses from leading compliance training provider Exchange Analytics. Each course provides all documentation and reporting necessary for compliance purposes.*

Agenda
1:30pm: Onsite Registration Opens

2:00pm: Welcome:
Jerry Nolan, County Cork LLC, NIBA Event Chairman
Mark Washack, Wedbush Futures, NIBA Event Committee

 2:15pm:Marketing Managed Futures- Regulation & Compliance: 
Marketing Managed Futures involves more than raising the assets. This area of the industry comes with unique regulations and compliance issues of which you need to be aware.

Moderator: Mark Shore, DePaul University; Shore Capital Research LLC
Panelists:
Mike Coglianese, Michael Coglianese CPA, PC
Carl Gilmore, Integritas Financial Consulting
John Brand, Managing Director at National Futures Association 
Brian Clark, Ascent Technologies 
David Reyna, R.J. OASIS

3:15pm: Break

3:30pm: Mike Burke, HighGround Trading, NIBA President
Dr. Carl Luft, DePaul University
Larry Israel, Exchange Analytics

3:50pm: Cybersecurity-- What You Need to Know!
Focus on the state of the regulation and enforcement, including a legal perspective and insight from the CME Group 

Moderator: Jeff Henderson, Greenberg Traurig 
Panelists:
Gil Vega, CME Group
Matt Kluchenek, Baker and McKenize 
Dale Spoljaric, National Futures Association 

 4:50pm: Membership Update:
John Jensen, Heritage West Financial, NIBA Membership Chairman

 5:00pm:Conference Wrap-up:
Jerry Nolan, County Cork LLC, NIBA Event Chairman

5:00pm:Networking Cocktail Reception: 
Join your peers at a networking cocktail reception and celebrate NIBA's 25th Anniversary

Date: Thursday July 14th, 2016
Time: 1:30pm to 5pm
Venue: DePaul Center, 1 E Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604

​For more information and registration click here

Chicago QWAFAFEW will hold a meeting focusing on fintech innovation in Chicago and featuring the founders of two cutting-edge Chicago financial technology startups.

Dave Jaberg of GX2 Systems and Euan Sinclair of FactorWave. 

FactorWave brings sophisticated factor-based investing in equities and options to the broader investing public with an exceptional web-based platform. 

GX2 Systems offers traders simultaneous multi-leg trades free from execution or "legging" risk at a streaming quoted price on its innovative platform. 
 
KPMG reports global fintech VC funding will be up 36% over last year’s record at the current funding pace. Chicago’s global prominence in derivative exchanges and its vibrant community of fintech professionals may magnify its role in this wave compared to others.

The meeting offers you a close-up view of two local fintech startups and the opportunity to compare notes and update your expectations about the magnitude of Chicago’s participation in the global fintech innovation wave.  
 
Both speakers will touch on these key themes:

• Conception of the startup idea
• Getting the ball rolling
• Demonstration of key platform functionalities
• Reception of the idea and the product  

There will be generous time for questions and discussion.
 
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Venue: The Chicago Board of Options Exchange, 400 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL
Time: Doors open at 5pm for conversation, light food and drinks. Event begins at 5:30pm and officially ends at 7pm.

Admission is $15 in advance (or $20 at the door) with light food and drinks provided. IIT students will be admitted at no charge. Other students and unemployed $10. 

​Purchase tickets or reserve a seat (space available) via 
TicketLeap (at chicagoqwafafew.ticketleap.com/chicago-fin-tech.)
 
QWAFAFEW is an informal organization for discussions of quantitative investment topics. QWAFAFEW has active chapters in Chicago, Boston, Hartford, New York, Denver, Princeton, and San Francisco.
 
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Current Chicago QWAFAFEW Steering Committee members:

• Adam Cohen, Zacks Investment Research, Inc.
• Barry Feldman, IMCI, LLC
• Ben Johnson, Morningstar, Inc.
• Mark Shore, Shore Capital Research and DePaul University
• Matthew Moran, Chicago Board Options Exchange
• Ram Ben-David, Eckhardt Trading Company

Recent emeritus members:

• Cindy Tsai, Environment Envisioned, Inc.
• Peter Carl, William Blair and Company
• Steve Greiner, Charles Schwab