(Webinar) Connecting the Dots: US SEC, ABS Mandates, Financial Modeling and Python

[Jason Galyon]

Will this webcast/webinar perform on Linux?

Jason

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:08 -0700, Kendra Penrose wrote:
> Connecting the Dots: US SEC, ABS Mandates, Financial Modeling and Python
> 
> Date: Wednesday September 22, 2010python-announce-list at python.org,
> Time: 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST/ 17:00 UTC
> Space is limited so register now at
> https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/151429928
> 
> Join us for a webinar co-hosted by Ann Rutledge, R&R Consulting, and 
> Diane Mueller, ActiveState, focused on the recent US SEC regulation, ABS 
> Mandates, Financial Modeling and Python.
> 
> Recently, the US SEC published a proposal (33-9117) covering a series of 
> new initiatives to address the current lack of transparency of 
> asset-backed securities (ABS). This new series of SEC proposed 
> initiatives are a way of putting "teeth" into Reg AB that would give the 
> SEC (and the market) enough data to police and prevent events like the 
> recent subprime crisis.
> 
> In this webinar, Ann Rutledge and Diane Mueller will discuss a new key 
> technical requirement in the SEC proposal; the provision of a Python 
> computer program and the market data required to properly monitor and 
> analyse these complex ABS transactions. The role of the proposed program 
> is to enable the capture of all the complicated terms of an ABS deal in 
> code that can be used to analyze the cash flows in each deal and how the 
> returns will get split up between different parties. Currently, 
> investors, fund managers, and investment managers receive a complex, 
> textual description of this information in the prospectus, which makes 
> it difficult to perform or visualize a rigorous quantitative or if-then 
> analysis of the asset-backed securities.
> 
> By attending this webinar you will learn:
> * some historical challenges regarding regulation of the asset-backed 
> securities (ABS) market
> * technical benefits of Python and XML for capturing essential financial 
> information in ABS transactions
> * about opportunities for collaboration between between regulators, 
> accounting standards bodies, and the open source software community
> 
> If you are in the finance industry and are affected by the new SEC 
> regulations, you don't want to miss this webinar!
> 
> Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/151429928