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Featured Speakers

Greg Medcraft
Commissioner
Australian Securities & Investment Commission

Greg Medcraft, Commissioner to the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC), delivered a featured address on securitization in the global marketplace at ASF 2010 on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 8:20 am.

Commissioner Medcraft was appointed to the ASIC, Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator, in February 2009. His regulatory responsibilities include investment banking, investment managers, super funds and financial advisers.

Commissioner Medcraft is currently a co-chair of the Task Force on Unregulated Financial Markets and Products, (TFUMP) for the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The Task Force was formed in November 2008 in response to G-20 calls for a review of the scope of financial markets and in particular, unregulated financial market segments and products. Its Final Report recommends regulatory actions to assist financial market regulators in introducing greater transparency and oversight with respect to securitization and credit default swaps (CDS) markets, and improving investor confidence and the quality of these markets.

Commissioner Medcraft spent nearly 30 years in investment banking at Societe Generale in Australia, Asia, Europe and Americas. Prior to coming to the US in 1999, Commissioner Medcraft was based in Sydney and headed SG’s Australian/Asian Securitisation Group, which he established in 1990. In 1989, while based with SG in Paris, he launched the first European term auto loan securitization in Europe. More recently, he was the Managing Director and Global Head of Securitisation, based in New York.

Prior to joining ASIC, Commissioner Medcraft was Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director for the Australian Securitisation Forum. In 2002, he co-founded the American Securitization Forum and was its Chairman from 2005 until 2007.

Please click here for Commissioner Medcraft's biography.

Michael S. Barr
Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions
U.S. Department of Treasury

Michael S. Barr, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, U.S. Department of Treasury, delivered a featured address at ASF 2010 on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at noon.

Michael S. Barr was confirmed by the United States Senate May 21, 2009 to serve as the Department of the Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions. As Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, Barr is responsible for developing and coordinating Treasury's policies on legislative and regulatory issues affecting financial institutions, including, among other issues, financial regulatory reform legislation and mortgage loan modifications.

Assistant Secretary Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, as Special Advisor to President William J. Clinton, as a special advisor and counselor on the policy planning staff at the State Department, and as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and then-District Court Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Southern District of New York.

Please click here for Assistant Secretary Barr's biography.

John C. Dugan
Comptroller of the Currency

John C. Dugan delivered a featured address at ASF 2010 on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010. Comptroller Dugan has been a key architect of the economic stimulus plans crafted in the wake of the recent financial crisis, and has played a critical role in developing policy proposals related to financial regulatory reform.

John C. Dugan was sworn into a five-year term as the 29th Comptroller of the Currency in August 2005. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) supervises nearly 1,600 federally chartered commercial banks and about 50 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States, comprising nearly two-thirds of the assets of the commercial banking system.

The Comptroller is also one of five members of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). On December 15th, 2009, the FDIC Board released an important Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding FDIC treatment of securitizations in the case of a bank conservatorship or receivership.

In September 2007, Comptroller Dugan was named Chairman of the Joint Forum, which includes senior financial sector regulators from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia, and deals with issues common to the banking, securities, and insurance industries, including supervision of conglomerates.

Comptroller Dugan has testified on numerous occasions before Congress and has participated extensively in the development of regulatory and policy responses regarding the future of mortgage financing, credit card consumer protections, and commercial real estate lending in the United States. Please click here for Comptroller Dugan's biography.

ASF 2010 Program Schedule

ASF 2010 featured a multi-day, multi-track program, combining general sessions which cover topics of broad interest along with concurrent break-out tracks designed for individual securitization market segments and participants. Registration opened onsite on Sunday morning, January 31, 2010. Sessions began Sunday afternoon, and the exhibit hall and the cyber café opened then as well. A Welcome Reception was held early Sunday evening. Monday and Tuesday were full days of programming, with keynotes, general sessions, breakouts and exhibits. Breaks with snacks and beverages were offered in the exhibit hall, and lunch was available. The Working Lunch was held on Monday, and there was a reception following the end of sessions both Monday and Tuesday afternoons. The conference continued with continental breakfast and breakouts on Wednesday morning, and concluded around noon on Wednesday.

Please click here for the ASF 2010 topic agenda, which lists the name, date and time for each session at the conference. Please click here for the detailed agenda, which lists the speakers for each session.

Identification and Selection of Conference Speakers

A hallmark of ASF’s “by and for the industry” approach to conference planning is the direct involvement of industry professionals in the development of the conference agenda. ASF 2010 will again utilize this approach, which is designed to lever the knowledge and expertise of ASF’s membership to identify the best qualified speakers.  The ASF convened a Program Advisory Committee, comprised of ASF members from all areas of the securitization industry, to assist in developing the agenda and selecting speakers.

Industry participants were able to use the ASF website to provide speaker suggestions. All suggestions received through this website by December 3, 2009 were forwarded to the ASF 2010 Program Advisory Committee for consideration.

The most intensive phase of the ASF 2010 program development process took place in late fall, when the Program Advisory Committee met to select speakers.

Thank you for your contribution to ASF 2010.