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February 01, 2009

News, DCSC Updates & Future Events

Dear Colleagues:

First we want to thank Ashish Gupta, Tom Day and our chairman, Syed Ahmad, for reaffirming their intention to serve on the DC SC in 2009. We are in the process of confirming the other members and interviewing several new candidates for the DC SC.

Thanks to all who contacted us about participation. Also thanks to Dennis Keifer of Deloitte and Kevin Lu of the IBRD for their past service! We shall be making some announcement about new DC SC members shortly.

Second, we want to make you aware of an event being held by our friends at the CFA Institute. We have collaborated successfully with CFAI on several events and have invited them to work with us on some future events as well. Their annual Annual Winter Dinner on 2/11/09 features Roger Lowenstein (author of When Genius Failed and other notable works). Click here for more information.

Third, we are in the process of assembling a program for the May 4, 2009 all-day event at the FDIC University. The tentative title is "Market & Liquidity Risk Management In Post-Bubble Markets" More soon on the event page of prmia.org: Click Here.

We are looking for CSUITE level speakers for the May 4 event. If you have any suggestions, please contact the DC SC

Finally, you may see the video, materials and other content from the last event, "Bust, Bankruptcy, Bailouts: What Should We Do Now?," by Clicking Here.

It appears that we shall be organizing yet another partner event with AEI on 2/23/08. The subject is credit default swaps. Yours truly and another speaker debating the pros and cons of CDS. We've been waiting for this one a while. More soon.

Many thanks!

Chris Whalen
Co-Regional Director

Posted by whalenc at February 1, 2009 01:57 PM