Christoph Hock

Head
Union Investment

Christoph joined Union in April 2014 and, with his team, is responsible for all trading activities associated with portfolio management of cash equities, fixed income, fund and ETF business, FX, listed and OTC derivatives, and securities lending. Currently his new position is specific to multi-asset trading. Christoph has more than 20 years of international investment banking, trading and management experience, having worked for companies on the sell- and buy-side, most recently as Head of Execution Sales at Barclays Bank and at Alpha Trading.

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Trade Tech Europe 2016 - Main Conference Day 2

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

11:40 ALL STAR PANEL: Dark pool trading- Are the MiFID II limits on trading and wavers a help or a hindrance to drive market liquidity?

Discovering how dark pool trading caps will be made functional and what will happen once the cap is reached
How will these caps impact the market, including OTC and dark pool trading
What are the activities of HFTs given these caps
What are the questions to be asking to combat conflict of interest with your brokers?
How are banks managing these challenges and explaining how these dark pools run and what the requirements are?

14:50 Going multi-asset: How to develop a truly effective trading desk to manage and trade key assets classes profitably?

- What the preparatory steps to developing a multi-asset desk? Have you taken them?
- How are sell side responding given their often siloed buy side trading desks and various touch points
- What is really needed?
- Evaluating the current capabilities of reporting systems for multi-asset trading. What needs to be improved?
- How can a multi-asset desk help leverage market intelligence and combined execution?