FIMA Asia 2008 was a remarkable success with the help of exceptional speakers, relevant presentations, and great audience participation. Attendees were able to

• Learn how to re-brand their data operations to be the foundation for the success of their entire business
• Utilize reference data management to address competitive pressures arising from globalization, risk, regulatory demands and lower margins
• Take a proactive approach to understanding current and future data requirements and build the necessary functionality into their architecture
• Understand the long-term strategic goals of being able to manage their data on an enterprise-wide level
• Integrate their data – create a roadmap towards EDM that eventually links all of their legacy applications and data repositories
  

Key Speakers At FIMA Asia Included:

	Credit-Suisse (Singapore): Andrew Nicholson Global Head of Reference Data & Reconciliations		Citi (United Kingdom): Julia Sutton Global Head of Customer Accounts Operations
	DBS (Singapore): Philip Fernandez Managing Director		Morgan Stanley (Japan): John Sproat Executive Director
	CLSA (Hong Kong): T. Rajah CIO		UBS (Singapore): Lynette Poh Director – Data Services Group (DSG), Operations