Review of ITAS 2010 that took place in Luxembourg, February 2010

Highlights of ITAS 2010

ITAS 2010 Included:

Gauging Impacts Of The Credit Crunch On The Funds Industry. What Next For The Funds & TA World? Tracking Recent Fund Flows

More Distributors and Fund Managers speaking than ever before!

State Of The Art Automation – Where Is It?

Cost Reduction In Transfer Agency. Impacts Of New Standards & Connectivity Platforms - Supporting Global/Cross Border Distribution

Is Distribution Support Value Added, And Can You Charge For It?

State Of The Art Automation – Where Is It?

Fund Manager Roundtable: Regulatory & Processing Challenges Posed By UCITS IV

The Role Of Platforms And How They Morphing Into More Than Execution Engines

Is Outsourcing More Relevant In The New Economic Paridigm?

Hosted Fund Services - Democratisation Or Just Proliferation?

Asia In The Spotlight - Global Fund Servicing And Distribution Hurdles & Solutions

Impacts of T2S on TAs and The Investment Funds Industry

AML Regulations For Investment Funds

Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive - Impacts on TA

Funds Industry Focus - What Is Happening With Distribution Across Europe And Beyond & What Next For The Funds & TA World?

Champagne Roundtables: 4 Champagne Roundtables were held at the end of Day One with an expert moderator hosting each table. Attendees were able to choose a topic most relavant for their day-to-day concerns and discover solutions and strategies to drive their business forward. Topics included: UCITS IV; Outsourcing; Global Markets & Global Fund Servicing; Payments & Cash Management

€800

Key Speakers

Paul Brady Director, Intl Transfer Agent Operations & Customer Service FRANKLIN TEMPLETON INVESTMENTS	Martyn Cuff Director – Head of Operations ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS EUROPE
Graham Goodhew Director JP MORGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT	Mike Morecroft Head of European Transfer Agency INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT
Licia Megliana Regional Manager Southern Europe ALLFUNDS SA	Marco Zwick Directing Officer SCHRODERS
Zeynep Aslan Director TURKISFUND SICAV	Paul O'Neil Managing Director INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL DATA SERVICES

Thank you!

A big thank you to all our speakers who made valuable and insightful contributions to ITAS 2010 - we were delighted to see such a great turnout of attendees from all corners of Europe and beyond during these tough economic times. After the industry malaise that hung over the funds processing industry back in 2009, the mood at ITAS 2010 was markedly more upbeat, although there are plenty of hurdles still to overcome. Over 40 speakers explored the challenges that the transfer agency and fund processing industry faces in these most volatile of times.

In addition to ITAS the Forum, we were delighted to be running a timely workshop on Outsourcing Transfer Agency which was highly interactive and informative.Outsourcing of transfer agency services within the European collective investment market is continuing to grow, but as we saw, different markets within Europe are at different stages of development and evolution. We were able to look at wide variety of markets, examiming the historical and current drivers that surround these and the European market as a whole.

We would like to thank all our sponsors, especially State Street and IFDS as Lead Sponsors, Bank of America as Lunch Sponsor, and Bravura, CACEIS and RBC Dexia as Associate Sponsors

We look forward to coming back to Luxembourg again next year, and hope to see many new faces and as well as those familiar to the Forum as we look to a brighter 2010- and beyond.

The ITAS Team, February 2010

Our past delegates say it best!

“Good interaction of people from different parts of the investment community”
Peter McKenzie, MUTUAL FUND TECHNOLOGIES

“Valuable discussion about real issues with potential solutions – this conference has now reached critical mass”
Frank Roden, BNP PARIBAS