Financial Services Technology Summit Europe 2011 To Open On 4-6 October In Portugal

Santiago, May 18, 2011 AEST (ABN Newswire) - The web has become a playground for hackers and malcontents eager to phish, defraud and steal wherever and whenever they can. "There still exists a level of concern over the cloud," admits Crawford del Prete, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Products and Chief Research Officer at research giant IDC.

A concern many technology executives share: will external software providers have the firm's best interests at heart? asks Richard Scott, CTO at Guardian Life Insurance Company. "Are we going to get the same or better or a guaranteed level of service?"

Ensuring security in a cloud-based environment will no doubt be top of the list of issues delegates will be discussing at the Financial Services Technology Summit Europe Summit 2011, which takes place from 4-6 October at The Oitavos, Cascais in Portugal. This closed-door summit, hosted by GDS International, attracts some of the leading voices in the European financial services technology sector; previous summits have featured insight from the likes of Thierry Pecoud, Global CIO of Equities and Commodities Derivatives at BNP Paribas (EPA:BNP) (PINK:BNPQF); Guido Ravoet, Secretary General of the European Banking Federation; and Markus Schulz, Chief Compliance Officer Global Life and Group Head of Financial Crime at Zurich Financial Services (VTX:ZURN).

Along with information security, other key topics for discussion include enterprise fraud management, mobile financial services, the changing role of the CIO in financial organisations and how to handle market data.

FST Summit Europe 2011 is an exclusive C-level event reserved for 100 participants that includes expert workshops, facilitated roundtables, peer-to-peer networks and co-ordinated meetings.

For more information, visit http://www.fstsummiteurope.com/

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Jake Mazan Head of Marketing & PR GDS International Tel: +44-117-921-4000 Email: jake.mazan@gdsinternational.com http://www.gdsinternational.com