Andrew Griffith is the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister. He is a former senior business executive and investor who now sits in the UK Parliament. He served on Sky’s Board of Directors from 2008 until 2019, being the youngest FTSE100 Chief Financial Officer on his appointment. Between 2014-2019, Andrew was a Non-Executive Director of FoodTech start up, Just Eat plc and served...
EMEA Trading Conference 2023 Speakers
Thursday 9th March 2023
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Danuta Hübner, European Parliament Danuta Hübner was the first Polish EU Commissioner, first for Trade and subsequently for Regional Policy. She is a Professor of Economics, and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. Currently, she is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs – for which she was recently appointed as the Rapporteur on the review of...
Jamie Woodruff, Ethical Hacker and Cyber Security Specialist In his late 20s, Jamie Woodruff is one of the world’s leading authorities on hacking and cyber security. Woodruff entered the public eye when he successfully hacked Facebook as part of a student competition at Bangor University where he was studying computer information systems. He has since uncovered security holes in numerous high-profile operations, including Kim Kardashian’s...
Speakers
Adam Avards, Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk, UK Finance Adam Avards joined UK Finance in 2022 as Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk. He leads UK Finance’s engagement on the Critical Third Party regulatory pathway and chairs a number of forums and committees on Cyber Security, Cloud and Risk. Before joining UK Finance, Adam spent over 15 years within the UK’s Intelligence...
Adam Conn, Head of Trading, Baillie Gifford Adam Conn joined Baillie Gifford in 2016 as Head of Trading. He is a director of Baillie Gifford Overseas Ltd and an active member of Multi-Cultural Network. Adam began his career in 1984 as a junior trader on the floor of the London Stock Exchange with Scott Goff Layton & Co and subsequently led trading teams based in...
Adam McCarthy, Markets Reporter, The Block Adam Morgan is a reporter covering cryptocurrency, financial markets, and economics – anything from price movements, earnings reports, and inflation to the U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate decisions and everything in between.
Adam Wood, CEO, Turquoise Global, Head Equities Commercial Proposition, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Adam is CEO Turquoise Global and Head Equities Commercial Proposition at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), based in the Netherlands. Adam is responsible for running and growing both Turquoise venues (Europe and UK) with oversight of the Equities trading commercial proposition. Adam relocated to the Netherlands in 2021, post Brexit, as...
Alasdair Haynes, CEO, Aquis Exchange Alasdair is the founder and CEO of Aquis Exchange. He is the former CEO of Chi-X Europe and was responsible for growing the business into Europe’s largest equities trading platform and into profitability before its sale in late 2011. Prior to that, Alasdair spent 11 years heading up ITG’s international business, pioneering the introduction of electronic trading and crossing into the...
Alex Andronov, Managing Director, Global Head of Business Development, HSBC Alex Andronov is the Global Head of Business Development for HSBC’s Global Research division. Alex led the implementation of their MiFID II programme and helps to ensure clients are making the most of their award-winning research. He also leads data and digital innovation for Global Research. Alex joined HSBC in 2014 and has more than...
Alex Chow, Investment Operations Policy Lead, The Investment Association Alex leads policy at the Investment Association on investment operations, notably on post-trade and trade and transaction reporting. The workstreams in these areas include engagement and advocacy with regulators and working with membership discussion forums and market stakeholders to establish industry wide best practice and guidance for the IA’s 250 members. Alex has 11 years’ experience...
Alex Wolcough, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Fixed Income, FIX Trading Community, Founder and CEO, GreenBirch Group Ltd GreenBirch is a specialist Capital Markets consultancy looking at the changing markets and regulation and seeking innovative solutions – whether that is a new target operating model or leveraging new technologies such as cloud – to deliver real value. A current theme is looking at...
Alice Lucas, Head of Institutional Electronic Execution, Peel Hunt Alice joined Peel Hunt in 2022 as Head of Institutional Electronic Execution to lead the growth and rollout of a newly developed electronic product suite, leveraging the firm’s unique position in the retail trading space. Prior to joining Peel Hunt, Alice spent almost 10 years at Liquidnet across their New York and London offices, holding positions...
Andrew Bowley, Sustainability Governance Officer, Nomura Andrew is responsible for the international sustainability strategy of the Nomura group, reporting to Nomura’s Group Sustainability Officer. In this role Andrew provides leadership to group sustainability related growth opportunities, connecting regions and divisions to support the launch of new businesses. Andrew also provides governance of sustainability matters, addressing Nomura’s ESG credentials, ratings and UN commitments such as the...
Andrew Flatt, Founder and CTO, Archax. Andrew has over 13 years’ experience in providing technology solutions to brokers and asset managers trading global markets. Prior to Archax, Andrew spent 6 years as CTO for Omni Partners, a $1.4billion hedge fund based in London, where he was responsible for managing all technology within the firm. Before that, Andrew held senior technology and support positions at Infinity...
Andy Mahoney, Managing Director, EMEA and Head of Sales, FlexTrade Systems Andy Mahoney has been working in the financial services industry for more than 18 years, with time spent at Goldman Sachs and trading systems provider, FlexTrade. Initially a strategy specialist, Andy helped grow the FlexTrade business in the EMEA region from a four-person outpost to a major enterprise with a team of more than...
Angelo Proni, Chief Executive Officer, MTS – Euronext Group Angelo Proni is CEO of MTS – Euronext Group and a member of the extended Managing Board of Euronext N.V. MTS is a leading operator of regulated electronic fixed income platforms for European rates, credit and money markets supporting daily transaction volumes of more than €180 billion. Before MTS, Angelo worked in London for 4 years...
Anish Puaar, Head of European Equity Market Structure, Optiver Anish joined Optiver in August 2022 as head of European equity market structure, where his responsibilities include managing exchange relationships, steering advocacy efforts and assisting with public affairs. Prior to joining Optiver, Anish was Head of European Market Structure at Rosenblatt Securities, responsible for the firm’s European market structure reports and events. Anish is a frequent...
Anthony Belcher, Head of Sustainable Finance, ICE Group Anthony is Head of Sustainable Finance at ICE Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. In this role, Anthony is responsible for developing and delivering ICE’s data strategy surrounding sustainable finance. He works with financial market...
Ayesha Ghafoor, Principal, Capital Markets and Wholesale Policy, UK Finance Ayesha Ghafoor is a Principal in the Capital Markets and Wholesale team at UK Finance. She represents UK Finance member views on secondary markets and post-trade policy with politicians and regulators at the international and national level, with a focus on the UK’s regulatory reform agenda. Prior to joining UK Finance, Ayesha worked at Barclays...
Bediss Cherif, Chief Product Officer, Kaiko Bediss has been leading Product at Kaiko since 2020. He started his career in trading technology for Interest rate and FX derivatives as a quant and front office consultant at Murex before moving to market infrastructure at Euronext. At the exchange, he led the overhaul of derivatives markets from 2016-2019. Bediss was entrusted to review the whole life-cycle from...
Ben Lawson, Founding Partner and Head of Dealing, Skerryvore Ben Lawson is a Founding Partner and Head of Dealing at Skerryvore Asset Management, a specialist Emerging Market equity investor. He has over 15 years experience in the Financial Services industry. Prior to founding Skerryvore, Ben was Head of Dealing at Stewart Investors and a Senior Dealer at First State Investments
Brandon Rym Decoster, Product Management Team Leader, Bloomberg. Brandon “Rym” DeCoster heads product management of Bloomberg’s FIX, SWIFT, and Exchange Connectivity Platform Infrastructure. With 16 years of FIX Protocol experience and a prolific history of speaking on the topic, he is responsible for the ongoing modernization and standardization of FIX across all of Bloomberg’s FIX-enabled enterprise products.
Chris Jackson, Head of EMEA Equities and Global Head of Equities Strategy, Liquidnet Chris Jackson has over 25 years of experience in equity trading in various global roles. He is currently Head of Liquidnet’s Equity business in EMEA. He is also responsible for Liquidnet’s Equity product strategy. Chris joined Liquidnet in 2015 from Citi where he was Head of Execution Sales, EMEA. Prior to Citi,...
Christoph Hock is Head of Multi-Asset Trading at Union Investment. He joined Union in April 2014 and, with his team, is responsible for all trading activities associated with portfolio management of cash equities, fixed income, fund and ETF business, FX, listed and OTC derivatives, and securities lending. Christoph graduated with a Diplom-Bankbetriebswirt, and has more than 20 years of international investment banking, trading and management...
Constantinos Antoniades, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Fixed Income, FIX Trading Community, Chief Operating Officer – International, Trumid Constantinos is the Chief Operating Officer – International for Trumid and leads the firm’s European expansion. He is also the Co-Chairman of the FIX Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Working Group. Prior to Trumid, he was the Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet. He joined...
Dale Brooksbank, Senior Portfolio Manager, Vanguard Asset Management Ltd
Dan Squires, VP of Sales for Financial Markets, Imandra Dan Squires is VP of Sales for Imandra. Imandra is an AI startup engaged in Formal Verification. In financial markets Imandra is working with exchanges, venues, brokers and others to bring rigour and precision to the design of complex systems, as well as protocols like FIX. We validate the correct logical design and ensure that systems...
Daniel Mayston, Head of Electronic Trading and Market Structure EMEA, BlackRock Daniel Mayston, PhD, FRM, Managing Director, is Head of Market Structure and Electronic Trading in BlackRock’s Global Trading organization in Europe. He also leads the Market Structure and Trading Research teams globally. Dr. Mayston is responsible for overseeing electronic trading initiatives, adapting the trading platform in the light of market structure evolution, and delivering...
David Pearson, Co-Chair Global Post-Trade Working Group, FIX Trading Community, Product Manager, Torstone Technology David has over thirty years of experience working in technology solutions for financial markets, focusing on workflow and automation to challenge the status quo in post-trade operations. With a deep understanding of both buy-side and sell-side, David is a key member of the Torstone product team helping define and drive strategic...
Dermot Dunphy, Head of EMEA Equities Dealing, M&G Dermot has been at M&G since 2001. He previously traded global equities and equity related products. Since the implementation of a desk in Asia since 2021 he concentrates on EMEA and the Americas. He has developed and runs the TCA product and analysis for the equities desks. He has been Head of EMEA Equity Trading since 2021....
Dr Robert Barnes, Co-Chief Executive Officer, BPX Dr Robert Barnes is Co-CEO of BPX, a real estate platform, and exchange expert of 30 years in financial services, including as CEO of two regulated trading venues, Turquoise (2013-2022, majority owned by LSEG) & UBS MTF (2010-2013, while at UBS 1994-2013). He serves on UK’s FCA Secondary Markets Advisory Committee and National Timing Centre programme Steering Committee...
Duncan Higgins, Founder and CEO, Sustainable Trading Duncan Higgins is the founder and a director of Sustainable Trading, a membership network dedicated to driving positive change on environmental, social and governance (ESG) within the financial markets trading industry. Duncan has 25 years’ experience in financial markets, specialist expertise in trading technology and workflows, market microstructure, and regulation. He previously held long standing sales and product...
Elke Bachler, Head of Cyber Security Services, Marsh Elke has worked in IT and information security both the private and public sector for over 20 years. Amongst her previous roles were Deputy Director in the Cyber Security & Information Risks directorate of HM Revenue & Customs and Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Hiscox, a global specialist insurance company, with a remit across the...
Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL Dr Elliot Banks is the Chief Product Officer at BMLL. Elliot is responsible for data science, product development and product delivery, working closely with both clients and development teams to deliver BMLL’s analytics and product suite to clients. Prior to joining BMLL, Elliot held a mixture of commercial and technical roles, including roles within the infrastructure private equity arm...
Emil Rakadjiev, Software Architect & Product Manager, Esprow Emil is a senior software architect and product manager at Esprow, with almost 10 years’ experience in the financial industry. He has contributed significantly to the development of leading solutions for API management and to support adoption of FIX Trading’s Orchestra standard. Emil also has experience in research and academia, having worked at SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf...
Fabio Braga, Manager – Trading and Wholesale Conduct Policy, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Fabio is the manager of the Trading and Wholesale Conduct Policy team at the FCA where he is in charge of the UK policy for trading venues, mainly focusing on transparency and market structure. Fabio is a member of various ESMA task forces and committees and is a former UK representative at...
Francesco Lo Conte, CEO and Founder, Esprow Francesco is the CEO and founder of Esprow, a global leader in automated API testing and onboarding solutions for financial markets. With over 20 years of experience, Francesco has a deep understanding of the industry’s challenges related to connectivity and API management. Prior to establishing Esprow 13 years ago, Francesco was at Fidessa and Goldman Sachs. He is...
Gabriel Sampaio, Head of Custody Solutions, UK&ME, BNP Paribas. Gabriel leads the product development team for the UK & ME covering post trade products (cash equities clearing, broker dealer outsourcing, direct and global custody). Gabriel is active on a number of market committees and working groups focused on the post trade/securities services industry. Gabriel joined BNP Paribas in 2010 and has held a series of...
Goncalo Lima, Co-Chair Digital Assets & Technology Committee, FIX Trading Community, Capital Markets Strategy Lead, R3 Goncalo is the Capital Markets Strategy Lead at R3. Previously, Goncalo was a Macro COO at Standard Chartered Bank for the last 13 years. He represented SCB at the Global FX Division and was the chair of the Steering Committee for the last two years. At SCB, Goncalo has...
Gordon Wood, European Equity Trader, Invesco Gordon Wood is a Senior Equity Trader covering EMEA equities in the Henley office. Invesco Henley turned over approx. $80bn in 2022 on behalf of Portfolio Managers around the world.
Greg Yanco, Executive Director, Markets, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) Greg has primary responsibility for ASIC’s Markets group. In this role, he oversees the Market Infrastructure, Market Supervision, Corporations, Financial Reporting and Audit, Governance and Registered Liquidators teams and works closely with the Markets Enforcement team. Greg’s areas of responsibility also include cyber security, ESG and crypto assets. The Markets group is focused on...
Grégoire Blanc, Global Head, Capital Markets, Amundi Grégoire Blanc is the Global Head of Capital Markets at Amundi. He leads a team of experienced professionals focused on helping investors better understand ETF execution and liquidity, and assisting them in achieving the best possible outcomes when trading Amundi ETFs. Mr Blanc has fifteen years’ experience in the ETF industry, having previously built and led the Capital...
Guy Warren, CEO, ITRS Guy joined ITRS in July 2014 as CEO and brings more than 25 years’ experience in financial services and technology businesses. Guy had previously been a customer of ITRS, using Geneos to improve the availability of the real-time systems when he was COO of FTSE Group. He has also managed a financial services product business as the EVP & General Manager...
Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director and Global Technical Committee Co-Chair, FIX Trading Community, Founder and Senior Standards Advisor, FIXdom Hanno Klein works as an independent consultant specialised in the standardisation of electronic interfaces and is the founder of FIXdom – “The Wisdom of FIX” in Germany (April 2019). Previously, he has worked for more than 20 years at Deutsche Börse Group that provides the technology for...
Henrik Husman, President Nasdaq Helsinki, VP European Equities, Nasdaq. Henrik Husman is President of Nasdaq Helsinki since 2016 and Vice President, Head of Cash Equities at Nasdaq European Markets since 2008. Husman served as Deputy CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki from 2008 to 2016. Prior to that, he worked in several executive positions at Nasdaq and its predecessors in Finland. He originally joined the Helsinki stock exchange...
Ian Taylor, Board Advisor, CryptoUK Ian is the Board Advisor of CryptoUK (CUK), the United Kingdom’s trade body representing more than 150 companies from across the U.K. digital asset sector. CUK partners with other industry bodies such as UK Finance, Innovate Finance, Electronic Money Association, Blockchain for Europe, Global Digital Asset Currency Association, Blockchain Association, Access, IDAXA, and AIMA to coordinate public policy positions impacting...
Imane Kabbaj, Director Responsible Investment, Man Group plc Imane Kabbaj is the Director of Responsible Investment at Man Group. In her role, Imane is responsible for driving progress incorporating ESG concepts into Man Group’s responsible investment strategies, developing new ESG frameworks across asset classes, and ensuring the implementation of ESG regulations across the relevant strategies. Prior to joining Man Group, Imane was the Sustainable Investment...
Jamie Whitehorn, Head of Trading Venues, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Jamie leads the Trading Venues & Corporate Finance Firms Department within the FCA’s Infrastructure & Exchanges Directorate. Jamie is responsible for supervising UK trading venues and developing the policy framework within which they operate. He joined the regulator in 2010, having served in a variety of regulatory and compliance roles at trading venues.
Jessica Morrison, Co-Chair Global Steering Committee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Market Structure and Quantitative Analytics (Capital Markets), London Stock Exchange Group
Jim Kaye, Executive Director, FIX Trading Community Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.
Joe Scafidi, Global Head of Trading, Brandes Joe Scafidi manages the day-to-day operations and trading strategy for Brandes’ global trading desk. He also oversees the execution of trades for all institutional, private-client and sub-advisory wrap portfolios, as well as program trading. He is a member of the Executive Management Group, which is responsible for the firm’s day-to-day operations and long-term strategic direction. Mr. Scafidi is...
Jonathan Klein, Vice President, Head of Client Security Relationship Management, Broadridge Financial Solutions Jonathan is a senior information security specialist experienced in building and implementing business-driven security strategies in diverse business environments. He has the ability to build strong relationships with other organizations and form cooperative partnerships to meet business objectives. He has extensive experience in converting business requirements to technical and operational solutions. He...
Kate Karimson, Chief Commercial Officer, LedgerEdge Kate leads product, sales, marketing, and new strategic opportunities at LedgerEdge, a distributed best-in-class platform that delivers scalable functionality and flexible protocols across fixed income asset classes. Kate has extensive experience building trading platforms and a deep knowledge of the fixed income trading space. Before joining LedgerEdge, Kate was Executive Director at BrokerTec, leading and building their Global Dealer...
Kay Guest, Broker Relations, Aviva Investors
Laetitia Visconti, Head of EMEA Equities Market Structure & Market Connectivity, Barclays Laetitia has more than 15 years’ experience in managing market structure and regulatory changes with a focus on Equities Execution and Prime Services. She joined Barclays in 2010 as a front office product manager, working on various key EMEA structural changes impacting execution services. In 2018, she became Head of EMEA Equities Market...
Marc Berthoud, Head Exchange Data Strategy, SIX Swiss Exchange Marc currently serves as Head Exchange Data Strategy for SIX, one of the leading securities market operators in Europe. Securing high quality data is a central focus area of Marc’s portfolio. Marc drove the modernization of SIX Swiss Exchange market data dissemination infrastructure, improving latency, scalability, timestamping accuracy as well as data content. He recently completed...
Mariya Brown, Head of EMEA Innovation, BNY Mellon Mariya Brown heads EMEA Innovation for BNY Mellon, focusing on accelerating the firm’s digital initiatives, testing and exploring ideas, transforming the way we work, and partnering with clients and the wider ecosystem to develop solutions that service our clients and shape the industry. Mariya has over 25 years of experience leading product and technology organizations across fintech...
Matt Sanderson, Co-head of EMEA Sales Trading, Bank of America Matt is co-head of EMEA High Touch Sales Trading for Bank of America, based in London, with a focus on institutional accounts. Matt joined the bank on the internship program in Madrid before transferring to London in 2008 to begin his permanent role on Sales Trading. His primary focus is US accounts trading internationally. Matt...
Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community. He advises the Markets division on future regulatory change, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of regulatory change, and engages with politicians, trade associations, regulatory bodies and clients to make sure this is articulated effectively. Matthew was Director of Regulation and Market Structure EMEA at Nice Actimize with...
Michele Curtoni, Head Strategy & New Business, SIX Digital Exchange Michele Curtoni works as Head of Strategy and New Business for SDX – SIX Digital Exchange, a SIX company. Prior to his current role, Michele was VP in State Street’s Digital Product Development and DLT team. He focused on cryptocurrencies’ safekeeping & custody, asset tokenization, and technology deployment projects for blockchain-based initiatives. Before joining State...
Mike Carrodus, CEO & Founder, Substantive Research Mike founded Substantive Research in early 2015 with two goals in mind. To provide asset managers with transparency into the pricing of investment research and market data, and to also help them source quality providers in both those markets. Mike’s time as Global Head of Institutional Sales at NDR, one of the leading independent investment research providers gave...
Mike Poole, Head of Trading, Jupiter Asset Management Mike is the Head of Trading at Jupiter Asset Management, having joined the company in 2005. Previously, Mike managed the Fixed Income trading team for six years, having originally spent over ten years trading equities, bonds, FX and derivatives across Jupiter’s range of funds. An active member of numerous industry bodies, including the Investment Association, Mike is...
Natan Tiefenbrun, President, North American and European Equities, Cboe Global Markets Natan Tiefenbrun is President, North American and European Equities at Cboe Global Markets. In this role, Tiefenbrun oversees Cboe Europe, which operates the largest pan-European stock exchange and equity trade reporting facility and has venues in the UK (Cboe UK) and the EU (Cboe NL). He also oversees Cboe’s North American equities business, which...
Neil Hamburger, Credit Trading, JP Morgan Chase & Co. • Neil is the head of Financial Resource Management for JPMorgan Global Credit Trading with additional responsibility for Clearing, Regulatory Relations, Market Structure, Data and Data analysis. He has held this role for over 10 years. • He is Currently the Chief Data Officer for Global Credit Trading. • Prior to that he traded Corporate bonds,...
Oliver Pratley, Senior Relationship Manager, Invesco Oliver Pratley is the Senior Relationship Manager for Invesco based out of Henley on Thames which runs over $66 billion in active AUM. The Henley Investment Centre is part of Invesco Ltd, a global organisation solely focused on investment management with over $1.5 trillion of AUM and offices all over the world. Mr Pratley has responsibility for the research...
Paul Besson, Head of Quantitative Research, Euronext Paul heads Euronext’s Quantitative Research department. His main area of research is Market Microstructure and Behavioural Finance on Equities and FX. Prior to this he held the same position for seven years at Kepler Cheuvreux. Paul has twelve years’ previous experience as a fund manager in quantitative arbitrage, both for hedge funds and long-only funds. Paul regularly presents...
Paul Besson, Head of Quant Research, Euronext
Paul O’Brien, Founder & CEO, Glimpse Markets Paul O’Brien is the Founder & CEO of Glimpse Markets (www.glimpsemarkets.com), a financial data sharing platform for institutional bond traders. Launched in June 2022 and underpinned by a “Give to Get” model, participating clients send agreed subsets of their trading data to Glimpse who then aggregate, anonymise, and re-distribute the data to all members of the network at...
Peter Jastreboff, Vice President Client Services, Talos A seasoned financial services veteran, Pete is an exceptional global technology leader with expertise in Cash Equities and Listed Derivatives covering algorithmic trading, alternative liquidity venues and co-location / HFT solutions. He has over 25 years of experience with Fixed Income – FX, Rates, Credit – trading and Risk systems from his time at Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan,...
Philippe Guillot, Managing Director, Markets Directorate, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) Philippe Guillot, Managing Director, took responsibility of the Data and Markets Directorate at the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) in December 2020. The Data and Markets Directorate supervises markets, monitors market infrastructure and stakeholders, and data usage. Since joining the AMF in March 2012 as Executive Director, in charge of Markets, Philippe has played a leading...
Piebe Teeboom, Secretary General, FIA EPTA. As Secretary General for the European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA), Piebe Teeboom leads Europe’s primary industry body for independent market making firms. Working closely with FIA EPTA’s members and other market participants, he represents FIA EPTA towards public stakeholders in the EU and UK. As an expert on market structure and the prudential regulation of investment firms, Piebe...
Rachel Przybylski, Co-Chair EMEA Investment Management Working Group, FIX Trading Community
Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Founder, Redlap Consulting Rebecca is considered to be a leading industry voice on market structure, regulatory reform, and financial services technology. Writing research over the last decade, Rebecca has authored a plethora of qualitative reports and commentaries covering the impact of market regulation on all asset classes, the impact of the rise...
Richard Young, Industry and Regulatory Affairs – Global Data, Bloomberg Richard joined Bloomberg in September 2015 in an industry relations role in the Bloomberg Data business. This role includes advocacy for Bloomberg’s Open Symbology initiatives, covering instrument and entity identifiers. Richard also undertakes wider industry and regulatory outreach on the data aspects of Bloomberg’s services, including those related to regulatory driven initiatives, ESG and digital...
Rob Gaskell, Founder and Partner, Appold Appold is an independent advisory company in the blockchain industry. The company assists institutions and corporates to access solutions and opportunities across the Web3 sector, incorporating blockchain technology, decentralised finance (DeFi) and tokenisation. Prior to establishing Appold, Rob was a co-founder of 2030 and President of the Pillar Project. He was previously head of technology at Stonehage Fleming, one...
Séverine Vandelanoite, Senior Vice President, Market Structure & Regulation, Deutsche Börse AG Séverine is market structure expert for equity markets at Xetra and focuses on regulatory topics which impact the EU equity trading landscape including MiFID II/MiFIR, SSR, MAR and domestic regulations. She supports her institution and Deutsche Börse’s clients in their analysis and understanding of the related obligations and requirements. She is member of...
Simon Dove, Managing Director and Head of Liquidity, EMEA Instinet Simon Dove joined Instinet in December 2020. In his role as Head of Liquidity for the EMEA region, he is responsible for the firm’s European liquidity strategy, which includes supervision of Instinet’s BlockMatch MTF, as well as, the firm’s market-leading liquidity aggregation strategy. Simon ensures that Instinet successfully anticipates changes in the liquidity landscape and...
Stéphane Malrait, Chairman, ACI Financial Market Association (ACI FMA), Managing Director and Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets, ING Bank Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry....
Steve Grob, Founder, Vision 57 Steve is a dynamic chief strategist and marketeer with a proven track record in creating and unlocking value in both small and large FinTech firms. Key to his success is the ability to combine a deep understanding of how capital markets work, their evolution and the relationship between technology, regulation and business. This is underpinned by his ability to position...
Sumit Kumar, Head of FIX Connectivity, LiquidityBook Sumit is a financial services industry veteran with vast experience in the front office trading technology space. He has a proven track record of setting up and running global tech and ops teams in tier 1 banks and product companies. He is currently heading the FIX connectivity team globally at LiquidityBook.
Tanith Johnson, European Head of Operations, Instinet. In this role, Tanith has been instrumental in the seamless implementation, management and evolution of Operations throughout her career; including time spent at both Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Latterly material challenges have included the broad spectrum of complex MiFID requirements and Brexit. In addition, she has been a key architect in the delivery of new business solutions...
Tilman Lüder, Head of Securities Markets, European Commission Tilman Lüder holds a doctorate in law from the University of Tübingen. Before joining the European Commission in 1999, Tilman was as an associate in Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP. He worked on European and German antitrust and merger control issues. His first job in the Commission was that of a case manager dealing with antitrust...
Toby Babb, Chief Executive Officer, Harrington Starr Toby has worked with the world’s leaders in Financial Services and Commodities Technology for over twenty years as a multi award winning recruitment CEO. As Founder of the Harrington Starr Group, Toby has built a pioneering, values-based company, working with customers to provide solutions beyond the traditional models on offer in the sector. He is a keen student...
Vuk Magdelinic, Founder, Overbond. Before founding Overbond, Mr. Magdelinic’s career spans over 15 years in capital markets and technology. As PwC Risk and Regulatory consulting manager, Mr. Magdelinic led large digital transformation programs at Deutsche Bank and BNY Mellon in New York City. Mr. Magdelinic has played lead roles in several multi-billion dollar digitization and regulatory reporting programs at top tier financial institutions in the...