Annual Membership Meeting - September 24 - Chicago
The NIBA Annual Membership Meeting is scheduled for September 24 at the CME Group Building in Chicago. This is a full-day event and includes a box lunch, cocktail reception and demonstration hall. In 2014, over 250 IBs, CTAs, FCMs and other industry professionals attended.
This year’s event includes five business sessions:
- “The El Nino Effect” - how El Nino will affect the livestock, grain and financial markets
- “What I Really Want to Know” - the six compliance questions most often asked by IBs/CTAs to their compliance firms and accountants
- “NFA Representatives Update” - IB/CTA representatives answer to you
- “Cybersecurity - Before & After the Breach” - a general session on the year’s most talked about regulatory issue
- “Cybersecurity - What IBs and CTAs need to Know” - an industry specific session which includes the NFA
This year’s luncheon speaker is Blu Putnam, Chief Economist, CME Group. Box lunches provided by the CME. A networking cocktail reception follows the meeting at Rivers, CME Building sponsored by Michael Coglianese, CPA.
Committee Members for the Annual Meeting are: Mike Burke & Mike Coglianese, both for the NIBA Board of Directors; and NIBA Members, John Nelson, Applied Research; Tom Sandy, Rice Dairy; and Mark Shore, Shore Capital Management. Demo Hall contact is Steve Petillo, petillo@coquest.com. Program details will post on the NIBA website theniba.com shortly. Registration is open and available HERE.
