Nick Idelson

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 of TraderServe which specialises in creating novel, practical and high-performing solutions to some of the most challenging problems facing financial markets. Nick provides thought leadership around regulation of Algo Trading and Market Abuse. He also speaks regularly on Best Execution. TraderServe’s flagship product AlgoGuard is the first commercially available algorithm stability testing platform which prevents deployment of algos which contribute to market disorder or commit market manipulation and helps organisations meet the new Operational Resilience Testing requirements.”