October 18, 2007

 

8:00 am–8:30 am

 

Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 am–8:45 am

 

Welcome

 

Alan E. Sorcher

Managing Director and Associate General Counsel

Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

 

8:45 am–9:00 am

 

Opening Remarks

 

Robert Werner

Managing Director, Global Monetary and 

Financial Control Group and

Global Bank Group Compliance

Merrill Lynch

 

9:00 am – 9:30 am

 

Key Note Address

 

Adam J. Szubin

Director

Office of Foreign Assets Control

US Department of the Treasury

 

9:30 am–10:30 am

 

Overall OFAC Compliance Program

 

Overview of OFAC’s rules and sanctions programs; OFAC’s risk based approach and enforcement guidelines; how to structure your overall compliance program and how the SEC examines firms for compliance.  Also discussion of new DTCC OFAC rules.

 

Moderator:

 

Michelle Neufeld

Compliance Director and Assistant General Counsel

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

 

Panel:

 

Karen Buck Burgess

Senior Advisor

Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations

US Securities and Exchange Commission

 

Virginia Canter

Associate Director

Office of Foreign Assets Control

US Department of the Treasury

 

William B. Hoffman

Davis Polk & Wardwell

 

Stevenson Munro

Head of AML Compliance (Americas Region)

UBS Investment Bank

 

 

10:30 am–11:00 am

 

Refreshment Break

 

11:00 am–12:00 pm

 

OFAC Screening

 

Discussion of how firms should structure their screening programs.  Focus on what account related parties are required to be screened, including when beneficiaries or authorized traders should be screened.  Also discussion of roles and responsibilities among clearing and introducing broker-dealers.

 

Moderator:

 

Michael Meyer

Vice President and Global Head of Policies, Procedures and

Regulatory Update Monitoring

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

Panel:

 

Carl Landauer

Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Charles Schwab & Co.

 

Jeffrey Horowitz

Managing Director, Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer

Pershing LLC

 

Shaswat Das

Senior Sanctions Advisor - Securities

Office of Foreign Assets Control

US Department of the Treasury

 

Gerard W. LiVigni

Senior Compliance Officer

Office of Foreign Assets Control

US Department of the Treasury

 

 

12:00 pm–1:00 pm

 

OFAC’s Application to Investment Banking and Activities Conducted Outside the U.S.

 

How firms are required to apply OFAC’s programs on activities, acquisitions and investments outside the U.S.  Discussion of what firms should do when OFAC’s requirements put them in conflict with other countries’ laws.  Also focus on OFAC’s licensing process.

 

Moderator:

 

Betty Santangelo

Partner

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

 

Panel:

 

Emily M. Clay

Chief of Special Licensing

Office of Foreign Assets Control

US Department of the Treasury

 

Serena Moe

Director, Forensic and Dispute Services

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

 

Meg Zucker

Executive Director

Global Anti-Money Laundering Group

Morgan Stanley

 

1:00 pm

 

Program Concludes

SIFMA has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the state of New York. Parts of this program have been approved for CLE credits.

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