The Honorable Caroline D. Pham, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission The Honorable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is a recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key international issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of...
EMEA Trading Conference 2024 Speakers
Thursday 7th March
Keynotes
Ed Balls, Former Economic Secretary to the Treasury & Shadow Chancellor. Ed Balls served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Shadow Chancellor in a political career spanning over two decades. Away from politics he has found a new audience with a surprisingly successful appearance in Strictly Come Dancing, and a revealing exploration of US voters in Travels in Trumpland. After a period teaching at...
Speakers
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 Rahim, Equity Derivative Sales, Corporate and Investment Bank, J.P. Morgan
Alex Ings, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Equities Fixed Trading Community, Executive Director, Agency Trading, Client Access Product Manager, UBS Alex Ings recently joined the Agency Trading Digital Platforms team at UBS, based in London. As Client Access Product Manager, Alex owns the global, cross-asset client interface for Agency Trading, and is responsible for improving clients’ experience of the execution stack. Alex joined UBS...
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...
Alison Hollingshead, Chief Operating Officer, Investment Management, Jupiter Asset Management Alison Hollingshead is Investment Management Chief Operating Officer at Jupiter, a role she took up in June 2022. Alison is responsible for managing the operational functions and activities of Investment Management, including line management of Trading and Investment Business Managers. Alison was previously Chief of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology at Man Group. Alison...
Andrew Douglas, Deputy Chair, UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce
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...
Asha Patel, Executive Director, Instinet, Board Director, Sustainable Trading Asha Patel is an Executive Director of Global Portfolio Trading and Index Sales at Instinet., a role she has been working in since she graduated. Asha has recently been appointed to the board of Sustainable Trading. Beyond Asha’s work on the trading desk, she leads several internal initiatives for the firm, including ‘Career Pathways’ which is...
Audris Siow, Head of Business Development, EMEA, Talos Dr. Audris Siow is a dynamic business development and strategy leader with 15+ years of experience in sales and revenue generation across the financial services sector Before joining Talos, Audris was most recently Head of Institutional Broker Sales at Virtu ITG Europe. Prior to that, she focused on growing Investment Technology Group (ITG)’s electronic trading franchise across Europe. Audris started her career with...
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...
Beth Nichols, UK Partnership Lead, Talent Beyond Boundaries Beth is the UK Partnerships Lead at Talent Beyond Boundaries, having previously worked at the Refugee Council. With a background in the refugee sector, social enterprise and corporate partnership building, Beth now leads the growth of the UK employer network hiring through the Displaced Talent Mobility programme.
Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Hester M. Peirce was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn in on January 11, 2018. Prior to joining the SEC, Commissioner Peirce conducted research on the regulation of financial markets at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She was a Senior Counsel on the U.S. Senate...
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...
David Cámara Iniesta, Director, Senior Trading Strategist, Bank of America David is in charge of defining and executing FICC e-trading and market structure strategy for BofA in EMEA. He works closely with trading, technology and legal to anticipate industry changes and maximize liquidity provision for Global Markets’ clients. He joined BofA after 12 years at GS, where he performed roles in sales, e-trading and market...
Dr Rhys Bollen, Senior Executive Leader, Market Supervision, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) Rhys leads ASIC’s Market Supervision team within the Markets group. He is responsible for the oversight of investment banks, market participants and issuers of complex retail products, and for monitoring trading activities across Australia’s equities, futures, and over-the-counter markets. His previous roles at ASIC include Senior Executive Leader of the Credit,...
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...
Elisa Menardo, Governmental Affairs EMEA, UBS Group Elisa Menardo works on European and UK securities regulatory policy issues, as well as broader European and UK government affairs for UBS. She develops UBS positions in coordination with colleagues from across the firm and represents UBS views to officials, regulators, clients and other key stakeholders in the European Union and in the UK. Elisa is a member...
Liz has over 25 years experience in market structure strategy, including innovation, restructuring, and regulation. From 2014 – 2023, Liz focused mostly on bond MiFID II/MiFIR advocacy, driving suitable corporate and sovereign bond transparency frameworks in both the EU and UK. Liz also chaired key industry taskforces such as: 1. CT Taskforce – At the request of EC DG-FISMA, Liz worked with buy-side, sell-side, and...
Emma Johnson, Executive Director Securities Services, Global Custody Industry Development, J.P.Morgan Emma Johnson is an Executive Director and custody product manager within J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank in London. Sitting in the Securities Services division her core remit is European post trade securities market and regulatory advocacy, market infrastructure and industry developments. Active in the securities post trade industry, Emma represents the firm through...
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...
Greg Konczak, Manager, Fixed Trading Venues, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Greg Konczak manages the Fixed Trading Venue supervision team, in the Infrastructure & Exchanges division at the FCA. The team is responsible for the supervision of the London Stock Exchange, ICE Futures Europe and London Metal Exchange. The team is also responsible for the supervision of the Commodity Position Limit regime. Greg has been at...
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.
Jeffrey Mooney is an Associate Director in the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets. He heads the Office of Clearance and Settlement where his responsibilities include developing regulatory standards for central counterparties, central securities depositories and other entities that provide clearance and settlement services. He also represents the SEC in domestic and international policy initiatives. During his tenure, Jeffrey Mooney has served as counsel to former...
Jessica Morrison, Co-Chair Global Steering Committee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Market Structure and Quantitative Analytics (Capital Markets), London Stock Exchange Group
Kevin Houstoun, Board Director, FIX Trading Community, Executive Chairman, Rapid Addition Kevin leads Rapid Addition, a company specialising in Financial services software that delivers high-performance, low-latency electronic trading software. Rapid Addition provides messaging platform that works with FPGA hardware and software to support electronic financial messaging for applications such as price dissemination, order routing, smart order routing, sponsored DMA and many other electronic trading applications....
Khalaf Abd, Software Engineer, Iress Khalaf Abd, a software engineer from Syria, brings over four years of experience to his role at IRESS. Khalaf has worked in multiple sectors but especially in mortgages, sourcing, and trading. Matched with IRESS through the support of Talent Beyond Boundaries, he relocated from Lebanon to the UK four years ago where he has been thriving ever since.
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...
Luke Colairo, Head of Operations, BennBridge Limited Luke is the Head of Operations at BennBridge and has over 7 years’ experience in financial services. BennBridge, part of the Australian-based BFM Group, is a multi-boutique asset management firm that partners with boutique investment teams and provides them with all their non-investment support. Prior to joining BennBridge, Luke worked at a Japanese Equity Hedge Fund, Eikoh Research,...
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...
Mark Davies, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, S3 Mark Davies is co-founder and CEO of S3, a full-service compliance and trade analytics software company that serves many of the world’s largest financial institutions and exchanges. Mark is responsible for the company’s overall business strategy, as well as daily operations required to deliver an exceptional experience to S3’s valued clients. S3 was founded in 2001 and...
Mark Montgomery, Strategy & Business Development, big xyt Prior to joining big xyt Mark worked at Barclays Capital as Director of Electronic Trading Sales and Alliance Bernstein where he was responsible for establishing a European portfolio and electronic trading desk. Responsible for sales and trading from the launch of ITG in Europe, Mark worked directly with clients exploring electronic trading and transaction costs for the...
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...
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...
Natasha Benson, Chief Operating Officer, Ownera Natasha Benson has 25+ years of experience in Capital Markets and Fintech, she led structured products at Goldman Sachs and pioneered fintechs with Standard Chartered and Barclays in wealth and the aid payments space. Natasha’s proudest moment to date is feeding 4000 displaced people in Afghanistan and providing them with lifesaving support.
Nick Idelson, Co-Chair Algo Trading Working Group, FIX Trading Community, Technical Director, TraderServe Nick, co-chair of the FIX Algo Trading WG, has over 30 years expertise in algo trading, including founding and managing teams for major banks and hedge funds as well as pioneering distributed algo trading and execution environments. Closely involved with trading regulation since 2003 including MiFID & MAR, Nick is Technical director...
Nick Philpott, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships, Zodia Markets Nick Philpott is a seasoned market structure specialist with over 15 years of experience in both the Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Digital Asset sectors. As the Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships of Zodia Markets, one of the pioneering bank-backed crypto asset brokerage and exchange businesses globally, Nick plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of this emerging market. Previously...
Peter Whitaker, Market Structure Strategist, Jane Street Peter Whitaker is a Market Structure Strategist covering European and Asian markets within Jane Street’s Institutional team. In this role, Peter analyses regulatory and market structure developments that impact trading and liquidity. He produces studies and shares insights with institutional clients including global asset managers, pension funds and wealth managers, and he is also closely involved in industry...
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...
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 Cranston, Global Head of Equities Product, Liquidnet Rob has worked in product management in electronic trading for over 20 years, accumulating a wealth of knowledge predominately in Equities. In his current role he is responsible for the global diversification and evolution of the Liquidnet equity products. Prior to his time at Liquidnet, Rob was the Head of Equity Product Management at SIX Swiss Exchange....
Robert Miller, Head of Market Structure & Liquidity Solutions, Kepler Cheuvreux
Rudolf Siebel, Managing Director, German Investment Funds Association (BVI) Rudolf Siebel is Managing Director at BVI, the German Investment Funds Association. He represents the German investment fund and asset management industry views on law and regulation, value chain standardisation and market research issues.
Sacha Fellica, Executive Director – Digital Markets Products – Head of EMEA Digital Macro Sales Products, J.P. Morgan Sacha Fellica is the head of the EMEA Digital Macro Sales products with also a global responsibility for the delivery of digital Rates Derivatives solutions and for all the APAC digital FICC sales products suite, he is based in London. He is responsible for the delivery of...
Samuel Livingstone, Head of Data Science, Jupiter Asset Management Sam Livingstone joined Jupiter in December 2018 and is the Head of Data Science. He is responsible for building out the Data Science proposition across Jupiter. Prior to joining Jupiter, Sam was a Data Scientist at Citadel (~$30bn US Hedge Fund) focusing on Global Equities, a Quant Researcher sitting on the Quantitative Equity Products Investment desk at Schroders,...
Sassan Danesh, CEO, Etrading Software Ltd. Sassan Danesh has 20 years’ experience assisting capital markets institutions to grow their OTC market franchise by optimising the business performance of their technology offerings. Sassan’s more recent focus is on the role of technology in addressing industry-wide issues. Passionate about the benefits of industry collaboration in providing technology solutions that optimise inefficiencies in market structure, Sassan is leading ETS’s...
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 Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Global Sales, Euronext Simon Gallagher is CEO of Euronext London and Head of Global Sales. He was appointed to this position in November 2023, subject to approval in the Annual General Meeting to be held on 15 May 2024. Prior to this, he held various roles within Euronext, most recently Head of Cash and Derivative Markets from 2018...
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....
Stephen Hanks, Manager, Trading Policy, Financial Conduct Authority Stephen Hanks worked on the original negotiations on MiFID whilst at HM Treasury. He then joined the FCA’s predecessor organisation at the end of 2006 since when he has worked mainly on wholesale markets issues. He is currently involved in work on the Wholesale Markets Review, mainly focused on work on a consolidated tape.
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...
Tom Ungi, Chief Executive Officer, True Partnership Tom is an executive coach and CEO of True Partnership, with 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry. Since co-founding True Partnership in 2022, he has specialised in executive and performance coaching for clients within financial institutions, operating from Bond Street to Liverpool Street to Bank Street. Before establishing True Partnership, Tom was with Millennium...
Virginie Saade, Managing Director, Head of Government & Regulatory Policy, EMEA, Citadel Virginie Saade is Head of Government and Regulatory Policy for Citadel in EMEA. She is responsible for engaging with policymakers and regulators across EMEA on legislative and regulatory initiatives that are significant to the financial services industry. Prior to joining Citadel, Ms. Saade was Head of European Regulatory Affairs and Strategy for KCG...