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...
Nordic Trading Conference 2023 Speakers
Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Speakers
Andreas Gustafsson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel Europe, Nasdaq Andreas Gustafsson is Senior Vice President and General Counsel Europe Nasdaq and manages the group that provides legal and regulatory support for Nasdaq’s European regulated entities including Exchanges, CCPs, CSDs and investment firms. He also oversees the Trading and Issuer Surveillance department, which monitors members and issuers on the Nordic Exchanges, in compliance of EU...
Anette Andersson, Senior Sustainability Investment Specialist, SEB Investment Management Anette Andersson is a Senior Sustainability Investment Specialist at SEB Investment Management. She has 30 years’ experience from the financial markets and more than 20 year of sustainable investments. 10 of those as a portfolio manager. Since 2015 her focus has been PE investments, sustainability integration, stakeholder engagements and communication. She is a regular guest lecturer...
Arnaud Richards, Global Head of Sales – Enterprise, ITRS Group
Ben Collins, Head of Sales (EMEA), BMLL Technologies Ben Collins, Head of Sales (EMEA) has over 20 years’ sales management experience working with major enterprises supporting their market data, analytics and execution needs. Prior to joining BMLL, he was Managing Director (Europe) for ACTIV Financial, where he ran ACTIV’s sales and business development activities in EMEA. Prior to ACTIV he was Global Sales & Marketing...
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
Dan Enstedt, Director of Business Development EMEA, FlexTrade Dan joined FlexTrade in 2016 and covers Sales and Business Development for FlexTrade’s EMEA team, based in the London office working across our buy-side EMS and OEMS solutions. He has more than 15 years of experience in the FinTech / electronic trading space, covering both the buy-side and sell-side. Dan holds a Master of Science degree in Business...
Erik Einerth, Senior Expert of Capital and Derivatives Markets, SSMA With 30 years of financial market experience, Erik currently holds the position of Senior Expert of Capital and Derivatives Markets at SSMA. This role follows Erik’s work as Senior Business Development Manager and Regulatory Affairs Officer at Swedbank. Erik has also had 20 years of trading experience as a derivatives market maker and equity trader....
Erik Milton, Director SEK Rates Trading, Nordea Markets Erik Milton is Director in Nordea Markets, SEK Rates Trading and is based in Stockholm. He is responsible for Nordea’s Swedish rates franchise business strategy and for the market-making operation in Swedish government bonds and benchmark covered bonds. Prior to joining Nordea in 2014, Erik had worked for 11 years at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and SEB....
Giulia Pecce, Associate Director, Head of MiFID Policy, AFME Giulia joined the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) in June 2022 as Head of MiFID policy and runs the AFME MiFID Steering Committee. Before joining AFME, Giulia worked at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) where she covered various policy roles across the organisation, leading on, and/or contributing to, retail and wholesale policy files....
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...
Ian Mawdsley, Chief Product Officer, Broadridge Trading & Connectivity Solutions Ian has been working in the financial markets for over 30 years, and has been at the forefront of electronic trading since the early 1990s working in senior product roles within major financial and financial technology firms such as ABN AMRO, UBS and LSEG Refinitiv . Ian joined Broadridge in May of 2022 following the...
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.
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....
Kristian Gårder, Co-Head of Equities, SEB CTO of Pan Capital, responsible for algorithmic trading, risk management and infrastructure. In depth knowledge of managing and designing trading systems at various tier one Investment banks. Manager for a large number of front-, middle- and back-office integration projects. Expert in trading & risk management platforms such as TBricks, Orc Software, GL & Sophis products. Developer background with good...
Kristin Wallander, Senior Sustainability Analyst, Swedbank Robur Kristin Wallander currently work as a Senior Sustainability Analyst at Swedbank Robur. Swedbank Robur is one of Scandinavia’s largest mutual fund managers. Kristin is the team leader for sustainability analysis for Swedbank Roburs active equity funds. Prior to joining Swedbank Robur she worked as a sustainability consultant in London and Stockholm and has 15 years’ experience with sustainability....
Lara Shevchenko, Senior Policy Advisor – Market Structure, FIA EPTA As Senior Policy Advisor on Market Structure for the European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA), Lara Shevchenko leads advocacy on market structure topics for Europe’s primary industry body for independent market making firms. Working closely with FIA EPTA’s members and other market participants, she represents FIA EPTA towards public stakeholders in the EU and UK....
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...
Martina Rejsjö, Director Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Martina brings 20+ years of experience within the financial markets with focus on market structure, rules and regulation both from an European and US perspective. Special interest in the future of the capital markets and the impact of artificial intelligence application in the financial sector. At Eventus she will be working internally and externally to interpret client needs and...
Mathias Westman, Credit Trader, Fixed Income and Equity Trading, Swedbank Robur Fonder AB Mathias Westman, Credit Trader, Swedbank Robur. Mathias joined Swedbank Robur in 2019 where he’s responsible for Euro and Scandi High Yield Trading. Before joining Robur Mathias spent 7 years within Fixed Income Sales and Trading, covering the European and Scandi Markets. Swedbank Robur currently employ 5 Fixed Income and Credit market traders,...
Matteo Balladori, Vice President, Citadel Securities Matteo is a Vice President at Citadel Securities, which he joined in 2018, being responsible for EMEA business development. His responsibilities include overseeing the firm’s electronic trading relationships with EMEA exchanges and trading partners, advocacy, and identifying new business opportunities across the region. His experience spans equity and derivatives market structure, with an in-depth knowledge of the European exchange...
Matt Bumstead, Senior Solutions Architect for Exchanges & Data Model (EDM), Bloomberg L.P. With 25 years of experience in exchange market data (six years at Reuters and 19 years at Bloomberg), Matt has global responsibility for designing and developing exchange data solutions and feature sets that nourish all Bloomberg products and services. Prior roles include global Product Manager for the Market Data Feed (B-PIPE), and...
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...
Nazed Mannan, Senior Product Manager, BMLL Technologies Nazed Mannan, is a Senior Product Manager at BMLL Technologies. He is the global lead, with responsibility for development and strategy, for BMLL Vantage, the market microstructure visualisation application. With over a decade of experience in the financial services industry, Nazed is an expert in low touch execution trading. Prior to his current role, he was a Director...
Nick Potter, Director, Virtu Electronic Sales at Virtu Financial focusing on trading solutions for sell side clients including retail aggregators. 25 years of experience mainly in EU and US equities with previous roles at KCG/Knight and Goldman Sachs/SLK.
Nikolaj Kosakewitsch, Senior Vice President and Head of EMS Sales, European Equities & Derivatives and President, Nasdaq Copenhagen Kosakewitsch joined Nasdaq in May 2017 and brings years of extensive knowledge, experience, and insight from sell side working with buy side institutions in the Nordics, Europe and the UK. He holds a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Ramon Baljé, Head of Fixed Income, Flow Traders Ramon Baljé joined Flow Traders in 2019 as head of fixed income – EMEA. Flow Traders is a global technology driven liquidity provider in wide-range of financial products that helps contribute to more efficient markets by lowering overall trading costs, delivering greater execution quality and market transparency. Before joining Flow Traders Ramon worked the majority of his...
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...
Rolf Mølkjæ, Co-Head of Global Trading, Nordea Asset Management Joined Nordea Asset Management mid-2017 and is managing the desks in Bergen, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Rolf comes from Nykredit Asset Management, where he was Head of Trading for 6 years. Prior to Nykredit, Rolf worked 14 years in Danske Bank in various positions from dealer to portfolio manager, ending his career in Danske Capital as Head...
Scott Charity, Senior Market Intelligence Specialist and Regulatory Affairs, Berenberg, Co-Chair Global Member Services Committee, FIX Trading Community
Sylvester Andersen, AVP Sales Director, European Trading Services, Equities & Derivatives, Nasdaq Nasdaq career milestones: ESG strategy that set the pace for Nasdaq, responsible for Nasdaq´s first venture capital investment in Europe (an ESG fintech company), build up local ETP/ETF market from non-existent to mainstream, taking Norwegian market share from 0 to 60% in a derivatives market we don´t operate, part of high potential program Previous...
Tanith Johnson, Managing Director, European Head of Operations, Instinet Tanith Johnson is Managing Director, European Head of Operations for 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,...
Torun Reinhammar, Associate Director, Capital Markets Europe, CDP Torun Reinhammar is Associate Director, Capital Markets Europe, at CDP, the global non-profit helping companies, financial institutions and policymakers to measure and reduce their environmental impact. Torun is responsible for CDP’s efforts to engage and enable European banks and investors to help mitigate environmental risks and push forward the low-carbon transition. With 25 years of experience from...