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June 02, 2009
New SC Member Joins to Focus on PRM, Development; Working Group on CDS/CDO Reform Meets June 10
First let me announce a new member of the DC Steering Committee, John G Schwitz, a PRM holder who is going to focus on membership, training and supporting PRM candidates. We are really pleased to have John's participation and ask members of the DC Chapter who are interested in taking the PRM to reach out to John directly (john.schwitz@net-mp.com).
The May 4, 20098 event at the FDIC Seidman Center was a great success. We had over 180 people register and the room was full for the entire day. Steve Lindo was there to represent PRMIA and we had a really great group of financial professionals driving what was our best program to date. Steve indicates that sustaining members will be able to see the program content online via www.prmia.org.
Members of the DC chapter should be very pleased by the fact that Steve singled out Washington DC as among the most active chapters in the PRMIA system in 2009.
We have several events in the pipeline, including a session on Credit Default Swaps on June 10, 2009 at OTS at 1700 G Street N.W. Entitled "REGULATION OF CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS & COLLATERIALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS," this is the first of a series of working group sessions sponsored by the DC Chapter to give members an opportunity to discuss some of the legislative proposals being advanced in the halls of Congress for reforming the credit default swaps and complex structured asset markets.
We have some excellent speakers, including Joseph Mason of LSU, Ann Rutledge of RR Consulting, Peter Axilrod of DTCC, and Michael Greenberger of the University of Maryland. Gary Kopff of Everest Management will be acting as moderator for the discussion and IRA co-founder Christopher Whalen will open the meeting with an outline of the proposals for reforming the CDS and CDO markets.
Click the link below for details:
http://www.prmia.org/events/view_events.php?eventID=3508
Finally, Syed Ahmad and several other members of the SC are working on an even regarding credit risk for September 16th, also at OTS. We have a placeholder in the calendar and more details will follow. Please email the DCSC if you wish to participate in planning this event.
Posted by whalenc at June 2, 2009 06:42 PM