Waters USA
The largest gathering of capital market CIOs and CTOs in North America

Bright Minds Connecting; Bringing influencers and innovators together to embrace technology innovation to drive profits and reduce costs
400
End-users
225
Global institutions
60
Expert Speakers
6
Networking opportunities
Waters USA 2019
Waters USA will be returning in December 2019.
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The Event in Numbers
450
End-user
Professionals
225
Global
financial institutions
60
Expert Speakers
from investment banks, asset managers and regulators
6
Facilitated
networking and learning opportunities
Sponsors 2018
About Duco
Duco’s mission is to make managing data easy. Financial services firms rely on us to reduce costs and dramatically improve efficiency in reconciliation and other data integrity tasks. Our self-service, cloud-based tools empower users to aggregate, normalize and reconcile any type of data on demand. Customers are live in 24 hours, with results in 7 days and tangible business value in 30 days. Headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Luxembourg, Edinburgh, Wroclaw and Singapore, Duco’s customers include global banks, brokers, asset managers, exchanges and middle and back office outsourcers. For more information go to www.du.co
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last fifty years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.
A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 411,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $19.09 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018, and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com. To stay up-to-date on TCS global news, follow @TCS_News.
For 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been among the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms. AWS offers over 100 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), security, hybrid, and enterprise applications, from 55 Availability Zones (AZs) across 18 geographic regions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world – including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP’s human resource, finance and analytics solutions are helping banks around the world run their businesses better, faster and simpler enterprise-wide. SAP applications and services enable more than 378,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com
Founded in 1996, RIMES is an award winning managed data services and RegTech solutions provider that truly understands the data management and compliance challenges faced by its clients. It serves over 350 asset managers, owners, servicers and banks in 40 countries including 60 of the 100 largest global asset managers and 9 of the 10 largest asset servicers by TAUM.
UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group
As a regulated platform UnaVista helps thousands of firms meet their compliance obligations, reporting more than 8 billion transactions for global regulations including EMIR, MiFID II across all asset classes. UnaVista also helps firms make more from their data, with advanced analytics to provide peer-to-peer transaction intelligence and surveillance alerts. UnaVista is also the source for a range of unique global identifiers such as SEDOL and LEI, and offers firms access to new derived alternative data.
AlphaPoint is a global financial technology company helping institutions make illiquid assets liquid. Through its secure, scalable, and customizable distributed ledger platform, AlphaPoint enables customers to digitize assets as well as launch and operate markets. AlphaPoint and its award winning blockchain technology has helped institutions discover and execute their blockchain strategies since 2013. For more information, please visit https://alphapoint.com and follow @AlphaPointLive.
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
Synechron is a global consulting and technology organization providing innovative solutions to the financial services industry through its three main business focus areas: digital, business consulting, and technology. Based in New York, the company has 18 offices around the globe, with over 8,000 employees producing over $500+M in annual revenue. For more information on the Company please visit the website or our LinkedIn community.
3Forge was founded in 2010 to deliver enterprise-class software powerful and flexible enough to meet the needs of large financial institutions. Their product, AMI, is a consolidated platform that lowers operational and reputational risk for leaders in the electronic space through complex data analysis and workflow management. Today, nearly 20% of US equities flows through their software every day. Clients include multiple Tier 1 Banks, mobile application firms, hedge funds, investment advisors and broker dealers. www.3forge.com
Orbital Insight develops geospatial data analytics to help its clients unlock societal and economic trends at a global scale. We source petabytes of satellite, drone, balloon and other unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data. Using computer vision and machine learning technologies, we process and transform this data to enable businesses, governments, and NGOs to make better decisions.
Everthere partners with the world’s leading show organizers to add value to both the visitor (buyer) and exhibitor (seller) journey by sharing personalized offering that drives unparalleled buyer-seller engagement - 10x higher than existing marketing solutions.
Everthere adds incremental revenue twice: Exhibitors that are buying in, and non-endemic, digital sponsors from Everthere’s network.





Keynote Speaker

Cathy Bessant
Chief Operations and Technology Officer
Bank of America
Catherine P. Bessant is chief operations and technology officer at Bank of America, and is a member of the company’s executive management team. Since 2010, Bessant has led Global Technology and Operations (GT&O), delivering end-to-end technology and operating services across the company through nearly 95,000 employees and contractors in more than 35 countries.
Bessant has held a number of senior leadership roles for the company. She was president, Global Corporate Banking; president, Global Product Solutions and Global Treasury Services; chief marketing officer; president, Consumer Real Estate and Community Development Banking; national Small Business Segment executive; and president of the Florida market. She joined the bank as a corporate banker in 1982.
Bessant represents our employees on a number of important topics serving as executive sponsor for the company’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride executive board, the LGBT Ally program, and the Disability Advisory Council. She is one of OUTstanding’s top 10 Leading LGBT+ & Ally Executives.
Active in the community and region, Bessant received the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In addition, she was awarded the North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine and was recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal with the Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award. She chairs the North Tryon Vision Plan Advisory Committee.
Bessant recently led the formation of The Council on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Managed by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the council will convene the brightest minds from tech, business, academia and government.
Bessant serves on the board of directors of Zurich Insurance Group and the advisory board for the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is ranked No. 1 among the “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” by American Banker. She also appears on Working Mother magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Working Moms” list of 2018.
Testimonials
I thought that the conference covered diverse technology topics. Content quality was exceptional.
Sophie Zhang, AVP, Deutsche Bank
Very impressive conference all around
Daniel Maury, Managing Director, UBS
I found the speakers most informative and I have 12 pages on notes to prove it! I liked the open forum for the networking tables. That made it very easy to network.
Jeffrey McLaughlin, VP, Mitchell/Martin Inc
Awesome event. I've been many times. I love the adjustments that have been made.
Jennifer Day, Head of Marketing, Alphapoint
Informative and a good opportunity to network.
George Pastrana, Citi Group, Consultant
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