France Trading Conference 2024 Speakers

Thursday 21st November

 

Speakers

Alastair Richardson

Alastair Richardson, Strategic Business Development Director, AMD Alastair brings more than two decades of experience in the global fintech and technology sectors. His journey spans roles across the front office, technical leadership, and various domains, including trading, product development, and sales. Alastair has worked at renowned financial institutions such as JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, and Barclays, as well as several fintech startups focusing on capital...

Antoine Pertriaux

Antoine Pertriaux, cofounder, Adamantia Advisory, specialises in trading, asset management and post trading services. With 20 years of experience in the Capital Markets industry he advises leading sell-side and buy-side institutions on their transformational journey in light of business, technology and regulatory changes. Antoine holds a master degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.

Benjamin Mahe

Benjamin joined AXA IM in 2021 as Head of Electronic Trading & Data where he was responsible for the Multi-Asset Low Touch execution as well as for the automation projects and transversal coordination of data related topics for trading.  In March 2024, he was appointed Head of High Touch Execution leading the Equity and Fixed Income asset classes globally. Prior to joining AXA IM, Benjamin...

David Angel

David Angel, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Continental Europe, Virtu Financial David Angel, Co-Chair France Subcommitee, FIX Trading Community, Managing Director, Head of European Business Development, drives the growth of Virtu’s new Business across all products and services in Europe, including the relationship management of Virtu’s customer base. David also heads-up Virtu’s Paris Branch and RFQ-hub business. Prior to joining Virtu, David...

Eglantine Desautel

Eglantine Desautel, CEO, EuroCTP Eglantine Desautel is the current Chief Executive Officer at EuroCTP. She has more than 20 years of experience in business transformation with a focus on financial services. Prior to joining EuroCTP, Eglantine spent twelve years at Euronext, a leading pan-European stock exchange and market infrastructure, where she held several positions of responsibility. Most notably, Eglantine was Chief of Staff to the...

Emilie Rieupeyroux

Emilie Rieupeyroux is Head of Market Strategy for Cash Equity and Data Services at Euronext, the leading market infrastructure in Europe. Prior to her current role, she was Head of Innovation at Euronext and was CEO of the distributed ledger technology fintech LiquidShare. She is Board Member at MTS, the leading operator of regulated electronic platforms and market data services for the European fixed income...

Eric Heleine

Eric Heleine, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Buy-Side Trading Desk & Overlay Management, Groupama Asset Management

Fabrice Anselmi

Fabrice Anselmi, Journalist – Markets and Regulation, L’Agefi Journalist in the financial sector since 2002. I first followed listed equities, then private equity, before signing up with L’Agefi to pursue investment banks on the morning of the Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy. I have since covered all types of topics related to investment banks and financing, asset management, and also financial regulation. Since 2019, I’m more oriented...

Franck Noel

Franck Noel is a financial markets professional with over 25 years of experience in operational management of trading, support  or project teams. Franck was most recently Head of Market Structure & Strategy at AXA IM and has been working at AXA IM for 7 years, and before this, for 18 years, he held various position with Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking in Paris or in...

Gavin Byrne

Gavin Byrne, Co-Head of Listed Derivatives Sales Trading, Continental Europe, BNP Paribas Gavin graduated from University College Dublin and spent the first part of his career working in Frankfurt and London before moving to Paris post Brexit.  His background was primarily equity derivatives sales and sales trading but since moving to Paris his role is now focused on multi asset listed derivative sales trading both...

Geoffrey Damien

Geoffrey Damien – Head of XTX France, XTX Markets Geoffrey had a stint at a brokers before landing at Euronext, where he held a variety of roles over nearly 10 years, including as a Product Manager and latterly as Head of Product Development in the Equity and Derivatives markets. He then joined XTX Markets in 2019 and is currently Head of XTX France, and leads...

Hanno Klein

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...

Huw Gronow

Huw Grunow is Head of Dealing at Newton, overseeing all trading for the UK based firm across all asset classes. He joined Newton in October 2016. Prior to that he was Head of Trading, Europe and Asia at Principal Asset Management, with trading roles at Blackrock and TT International Investment Management before that. Huw co-chairs the EMEA Investment Management Working Group for FIX Trading Community,...

Jerome Milerioux

Jerome Milerioux, Head of Business Development, Natixis TradEx Solutions Jerome Milerioux began his career in 2007 at Mizuho International plc in London, as equity sales responsible for French buy-side clients. In 2009, Jerome joined Moody’s Analytics as account manager, covering key French and Nordic institutional accounts with credit research. He subsequently worked there as product specialist, covering Western Europe and South Africa with credit risk...

Jim Kaye

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.

Laetitia Visconti

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...

Laurent Clavel

Laurent Clavel, Global Head of Multi-Asset, AXA IM Laurent has been leading AXA IM’s Multi-Asset & Quant Solution since 2022, a team managing ca. 30bn€ of assets. Laurent joined AXA IM in 2015 as International Economist and then became Head of Macroeconomic Research in 2016, then Head of Research early 2019. In October 2019, Laurent was appointed AXA IM’s Head of Quant Lab, a team set...

Laurent Libiszewski

Laurent Libiszewski, Head of Clearing & Settlement Products, Sell Side Custody & Debt Solution, BNP Paribas Laurent Libiszewski took on the role of Global Head of Clearing & Settlement Products, Sell-Side Custody & Debt Solutions in September 2022. He is based in Paris and is responsible for driving the global product development strategy across Cash Equity Clearing, Local Custody, Global Settlement, and the Issuer services...

Matthew Coupe

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...

Matthieu Chomez

Senior execution trader in Société Générale Luxembourg.

Melissa Ellis

Melissa Ellis, Head of  Workflow Technology, EMEA, Virtu Financial Based in London, Melissa Ellis serves as the EMEA Head of Virtu Financial’s Workflow Technology business and oversees the firm’s client-focused Workflow Technology sales and product development with its flagship product being Triton Execution Management System (EMS).. Triton, Virtu’s award-winning EMS, is a global, broker-neutral, multi-asset-class platform that combines Virtu’s cutting-edge liquidity, execution, analytics and workflow...

Nicolas Defoug

Nicolas joined LCH SA in 2011 in the Collateral and Liquidity Management division and was responsible for delivering new products and tooling for the activity. He joined RepoClear SA in 2018 as head of Change and has been instrumental in delivering new products and enhancements of the service.

Philippe Guillot

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...

Pierre Davoust

Pierre Davoust is Head of Central Securities Depositories for Euronext since 2020 and Member of the Executive Committee at Euronext. Pierre is also Chairman of the Board of Euronext CSDs (Porto, Oslo, Milan and Copenhagen). He joined Euronext in 2019 as Head of Business Development. Before joining Euronext, Pierre was Head of Markets at SETL, a UK-based distributed ledger company focusing on financial services, Chief...

Raoul Salomon

Raoul Salomon is a Managing Director at Barclays; he is the France CEO and the Co-Head of Markets for Barclays Europe. Mr. Salomon was appointed as Managing Director in January 2006 after joining Barclays Capital in February 1996 from Caisse des Depots et Consignation where he was an economist in charge of the French economy and a trader on STRIPS. Prior to Caisse des Depots...

Rebecca Healey

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...

Robert Miller

Robert Miller, Head of Market Structure & Liquidity Solutions, Kepler Cheuvreux  

Sacha Fellica

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...

Sassan Danesh

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...

Stéphane Giordano

Stéphane Giordano, Chairman, AMAFI, Deputy Head of Public Affairs, Société Générale Stéphane Giordano joined SG Public Affairs team in late 2013. He is currently deputy head of the department, responsible for Wholesale and Financial Markets Activities. Stephane has been elected as chairman of AMAFI’s (the representative body for professionals working in the securities industry and financial markets in France) board in October 2014. He also...

Stéphane Malrait

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....

Vincent Grandjean

Vincent Grandjean, Founder & CEO, Propellant Digital Vincent is the founder of Propellant.digital, a fintech that organises publicly available markets data along with clients’ internal proprietary data to empower advanced analytics and provide critical business insights. He has extensive front-to-back experience in electronic trading through his positions in Front Office eCommerce and in Information Technology. He played a key role defining Fixed Income market structure...

Xavier Hoche

Xavier Hoche is a financial markets professional with over 25 years of experience in operational management of trading teams. He served as Chief Operating Officer at AXA Investment Managers from 2010 to 2024, where he coordinated global trading operations across multiple asset classes, including fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, derivatives and securities financing. Xavier played a key role in implementing electronic trading platforms and auto-trading,...

Yannig Loyer

Yannig Loyer, Global Head of Markets & Liquidity Solutions, AXA Investment Managers Yannig Loyer was appointed Global Head of Markets & Liquidity Solutions, overseeing the execution and Solutions Portfolio Management functions of AXA Investment Managers in 2023. He joined AXA IM in October 2018 as Global Head of Trading, in charge of the execution teams for flow products before being promoted in 2020 to look...

Further speakers to be announced