TradeTech Europe 2016 (past event)
12 - 13 April, 2016
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Trade Tech Europe 2016 - Main Conference Day 2
08:40 - 09:10 Refreshments and Registration
09:10 - 09:30 Chair's Opening Remarks
09:30 - 10:00 OPENING KEYNOTE- How to see into the future: Evaluating economic investments and forecastings to make better predictions
10:00 - 10:20 INTERVIEW: The market and economic implications of movements in foreign exchange and active currency management
10:20 - 11:00 Refreshments and Innovation Theatre in the Exhibit Hall
11:00 - 11:40 ALL STAR PANEL: Equity market fragmentation- Where is it coming from and what are the opportunities for your desk to generate alpha?
David Miller Head Invesco
Hubert Rotivel Global Head of Dealing BNP Paribas Dealing Services
James Baugh Head London Stock Exchange Capital Markets and Turquoise
Arjun Singh-Muchelle Senior Advisor The Investment Association
Antoine Bisson Head, Execution Exane BNP Paribas
Moderator:
Richard Balarkas Chief Executive Officer Quendon Consulting
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Turning challenges into opportunities: How are regulators explaining the rise of new systems and venues as a growth opportunity for liquidity?
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How are systematic internalisers (SIs) impacting the market? Are they driving healthy competition or adding increased fragmentation?
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How can SIs help companies develop a more flexible infrastructure that can respond to changes in flow and liquidity?
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What is the attitude to new entrants and what do they need to demonstrate to prove they are adding liquidity?
11:40 - 12:20 ALL STAR PANEL: Dark pool trading- Are the MiFID II limits on trading and wavers a help or a hindrance to drive market liquidity?
Christoph Hock Head Union Investment
Tom Springbett Manager, Trading Venues Policy Financial Conduct Authority
Christian Krohn Managing Director AFME
Rupert Fennelly Head, Electronic Trading, Europe Morgan Stanley
Stephane Giordano Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, and Chairman of AMAFI (French Financial Mar Societe Generale
Moderator:
Richard Balarkas Chief Executive Officer Quendon Consulting
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Discovering how dark pool trading caps will be made functional and what will happen once the cap is reached
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How will these caps impact the market, including OTC and dark pool trading
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What are the activities of HFTs given these caps
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What are the questions to be asking to combat conflict of interest with your brokers?
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How are banks managing these challenges and explaining how these dark pools run and what the requirements are?
Stephane Giordano
Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, and Chairman of AMAFI (French Financial MarSociete Generale
12:20 - 13:00 ALL STAR PANEL: How are innovations in crossing networks and block trading contributing to market liquidity?
Mike Bellaro Global Head of Equity Trading Deutsche Bank Asset Management
Adam Toms Chief Executive Officer Instinet Europe
Duncan Higgins Managing Director ITG
Ralston Roberts Co-Head, Electronic Trading, EMEA Goldman Sachs
Chris Jackson European Head, Execution and Quantitative Services Liquidnet
Moderator:
Richard Balarkas Chief Executive Officer Quendon Consulting
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How can blocks create liquidity and what is the expected market impact?
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Managing transaction costs and how will this impact market structure
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What is the future of smarter trading through blocks with increased costs on research and market analysis
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How are they being accepted by the regulators and how much more liquidity are they providing to the market?
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How are Luminex and Plato developing as effective, trusted and clean crossing networks?
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 LunchInteractive Session
13:00 - 14:00 Women in Trading Think Tank
Stream A: Desk Efficiency and Smarter Trading Decisions
14:00 - 14:10 Chairperson's Opening RemarksStream B: Analysing New Market Opportunities
14:00 - 14:10 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Stream C: Disruptive Technologies in Shaping the Future of Trading
14:00 - 14:10 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Stream A: Desk Efficiency and Smarter Trading Decisions
14:10 - 14:35 INTERACTIVE PANEL: How to improve algo selection, customisation and routing logic-
How to best evaluate what is out there and what is right for you at the right time?
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What the questions you need to be asking your provider to ensure you outperform the benchmark and are constantly optimising?
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Best analysing the performance of algos and making smart decisions based on this analysis
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Identifying what happens to your order once routed, and how your algos are behaving
Stream B: Analysing New Market Opportunities
14:10 - 14:35 INTERACTIVE PANEL: What are the new frontiers in data collection, management and analysis to make smarter long-term investment decisions-
What are the quick, improved and cheaper solutions for data management?
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Where is this data coming from and how can this be used to develop long-term investment portfolios?
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How can you bring all the necessary information together, clean it, and extract what you need
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What to look for in your data to spot future trends and how does this translate in practice to the returns you are looking for?
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How will this change how the market trades and invest in the future?
Stream C: Disruptive Technologies in Shaping the Future of Trading
14:10 - 14:35 Blockchain: What is it and why should we care?Stream A: Desk Efficiency and Smarter Trading Decisions
14:35 - 14:50 Stream A continuedStream B: Analysing New Market Opportunities
14:35 - 14:50 Stream B continuedStream C: Disruptive Technologies in Shaping the Future of Trading
14:35 - 14:50 Interview: The next generation of financial innovators and disruptors- How is blockchain changing financial systems?- Understanding how bitcoin and blockchain work together and whether they are uses with other cryptocurrencies
- How will blockchain impact how the market operates and market structure?
- How will blockchain make data more democratic and accessible?
- Defining blockchain’s use in settlements and it’s future applications in open data
Stream A: Desk Efficiency and Smarter Trading Decisions
14:50 - 15:10 How to use technology to take the trader/client relationship to the next level
Stream B: Analysing New Market Opportunities
14:50 - 15:10 Going multi-asset: How to develop a truly effective trading desk to manage and trade key assets classes profitably?- 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?
Stream C: Disruptive Technologies in Shaping the Future of Trading
14:50 - 15:10 Session continued15:10 - 15:40 Refreshments in the Exhibit Hall
15:40 - 16:20 FIRE SIDE CHAT: China- what has happened post crash and what are the opportunities for your desk?
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How do Chinese regulators compare to European regulators regarding management of potential market crash
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What are the current developments with the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect
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What do you need to think about if you want to connect to China? What do you need to ask your brokers and what intel can they really provide on this market?
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How is the HFT market developing and volumes changing?
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What would they have done differently?
