Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa
Steve is responsible for Fidessa’s global strategic direction including the development of new geographic markets, asset class coverage and strategic partnerships, as well as driving new industry initiatives within Fidessa’s community of over 25,000 buy-side and sell-side users.
As part of this Steve heads up the firm’s strategy in response to the changing trading landscape, as regulation and technology combine in different ways across different geographic regions. He was instrumental in the creation of Fidessa’s Partnership Program that provides a living ecosystem in which technology from firms with genuinely innovative services is embedded into the Fidessa workflow to bring, for example, greater relevance and context to a trading situation. He has also played a key role in bringing together market participants across both buy- and sell-side to develop dramatic efficiencies in post-trade using front office standards such as FIX.
Steve has written a number of white papers on a range of industry topics. These include an examination of the new buy-side business models and workflows that are emerging; an analysis of the evolution of the global and super-regional broker community; an insight into the forces reshaping the global derivatives industry; a series on the impact of multi-market structures on the Australian and Japanese equity trading landscapes; a look at what the derivatives industry can learn from equity markets in post-trade; an examination of the different types of innovation that are emerging in the buy- and sell-side and an in-depth analysis of what is required for them to be truly disruptive.
Steve is a frequent commentator in the business press and speaks regularly at industry events around the world. He also provides regular written and video commentary on the challenges and opportunities facing market participants.
On joining Fidessa in 2004 Steve led the development of the company’s multi-asset trading capabilities. He was previously founder and CEO of specialist derivatives software house Future Dynamics which was one of the companies at the vanguard of the shift from open outcry to screen-based trading in world derivatives markets.