TradeTech Europe 2016 (past event)
12 - 13 April, 2016
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Trade Tech Europe 2016 - Main Conference Day 1
07:45 - 08:30 Refreshments and Registration
08:30 - 08:35 Director's Welcome Address
08:35 - 08:40 Chair’s Opening Remarks
08:40 - 08:50 OPENING REMARKS: The future of financial markets in a rapidly evolving world
08:50 - 09:10 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: How will true unbundling shift trading paradigms post MiFID II?
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How will volumes of small and mid cap stock be traded given market caps?
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Will unbundling really impact the direction of flow on lit and dark markets?
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Who are the new entrants who will come and shake up the market place?
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Are HFTs the new investment banks of the future or does reputational risk rule?
09:10 - 09:50 ALL STAR PANEL: What, when, who and how: What does commission unbundling and changes in research payments really mean for you?
Christoph Mast Global Head Allianz Global Investors
Robert Buller Global Head of Account Management Kepler Cheuvreux
Rob Boardman Chief Executive Officer, Europe ITG Europe
Miles Kumaresan Global Head, Trading Nordea Asset management
Mark Pumfrey Head, EMEA Liquidnet
Moderator:
Danielle Mensah Head of Cash Markets Euronext
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How are the market preparing for these changes?
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What is the organisational restructuring that can be expected on the buy side?
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Who are the best providers for unbiased research and how is the provider landscape for research changing
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How accessible are these providers? How to know if you’re making the best choice (best price, reduced market impact on your order)
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For international organisations, how will this affect different clients and investors by region and can all desks comply?
09:50 - 10:15 Fireside chat with the CEO: Transparency, block trading and market structure
10:15 - 10:55 ALL STAR PANEL: How is the European market structure evolving given increased volatility, less liquidity and MiFID II
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How is MiFID II shifting market structure and altering liquidity?
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With costs increasing for implementation and compliance, who are the winners and losers?
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How are the buy side getting a competitive edge? Where are the mid-sized company partnership opportunities and where is the innovation coming from?
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Evaluating if banks will be the new intermediators of the market rather than the liquidity providers
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How will volumes sizes change and how will this drive competition in the buy side market to bypass traditional liquidity providers?
10:55 - 11:00 Refreshments in the Exhibit Hall
11:00 - 11:35 Navigating the evolving liquidity landscape – embracing new venues and new order types (11.00-12.00)- invite only
11:35 - 12:05 OPENING INTERVIEW
12:05 - 12:40 ALL STAR PANEL: How to best use data to better analyse trade performance- What are the opportunities?
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Evaluating current strategies to centralise and compartmentalise data internally: How are companies handling the market and the increased volumes of data?
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Strategies towards internalisation, analysis and gaining autonomy over analytical capabilities for the better of your end client
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How can data allow you to make real time, smarter decisions through automated processes in practice? How far off are we from automation?
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What can this data really tell you about quality of flow the quality of trades with certain brokers and investment decisions
12:40 - 13:05 FIRE SIDE CHAT: Redefining desk communication to take back control of the trades- What is real time communication of tomorrow?
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What are the improvements that current trading desks need and what will they be comfortable with?
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Evaluating the role of social media in providing actionable real time information and how can this impact stocks -Understanding how Project Symphony is playing into this market and helping share information internally
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How will this work in practice?
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What are the long term benefits of leveraging new data sources in predicting future trends and behaviour of the market?
13:05 - 14:05 Lunch
Stream A: Best Execution and New Liquidity Opportunities
14:05 - 14:10 Chairperson's Opening RemarksStream B: Innovations in Trading Technology
14:05 - 14:10 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Stream C: Buy Side Drill Down Roundtables
14:05 - 14:10 3 Drill Down Roundtables- Buy Side onlyChoose 2 round tables during this 90 minute session. Each roundtable will spend 45 minutes groups of 10 discussing the topic with the table leader. After the first 45 minutes, there will be an opportunity to join another table. Roundtables are restricted to buy side traders
Table 1:
How to optimise your process in line with current regulation and what are the benefits and opportunities if you do?
Vanessa Moens, Chief Compliance Officer, KBC Asset Management
Table 2:
What do the buy side need to do to best manage brokers and ensure best-in-class execution?
Stream D: Buy Side Head Trader Think Tank (Invitation Only)
14:05 - 14:10 Drinks reception sponsored by KCG
Stream A: Best Execution and New Liquidity Opportunities
14:10 - 14:45 DISCUSSION PANEL: How are current regulations and technologies impacting the trading desk?Alexander Neil Head of Equity & Derivatives Trading EFG Bank
Valerie Bannert-Thurner VP, Risk & Surveillance Solutions Nasdaq
James Fairweather Head, Global Execution Services, Europe ABN AMRO Clearing
Robert Powell Director of Compliance IPC
Deana Djurdjevic Senior Vice President, Equities Trading TMX
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How are the current regulations impacting organisations’ approach to compliance and surveillance?
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What is the impact of fragmentation of liquidity on multiple platforms
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What current systems do brokers have in place to demonstrate they are compliant?
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What are the current opportunities to ensure high quality execution and how is the current marketplace changing?
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Internal overhaul vs new system investment: What are the factors to consider?
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What do the buy side need to see/demonstrate to ensure increased confidence in trading decisions, better trading velocity and better liquidity?
Stream B: Innovations in Trading Technology
14:10 - 14:45 DISCUSSION PANEL: FinTech- How to evaluate when and when not to invest and who are the winners for 2016?-
How much can we rely on brokers now for technology and how can FinTech drive buy side autonomy and growth?
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Buy vs. build- identifying exactly what you need and how to get it
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How to demonstrate that by increasing technology investments, you can more yourself, reduce commissions and cost of execution
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Who are the disruptors of tomorrow and what are the technologies that can drive change in the financial markets?
Stream C: Buy Side Drill Down Roundtables
14:10 - 14:45 Stream C continuedStream D: Buy Side Head Trader Think Tank
14:10 - 14:45 Stream D continuedStream A: Best Execution and New Liquidity Opportunities
14:45 - 15:20 DISCUSSION PANEL: How to build a broker list that combines the expertise and specialty needed for best execution-
How many and what type of brokers are needed to provide the market coverage and assistance you require?
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Boutique firms vs large banks: Identifying the benefits and pitfalls of each option
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How to find the optimal benchmark
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How much responsibility do the buy side have in best execution reporting and how can they help frame the model?
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How will these changes impact the market structure?
Stream B: Innovations in Trading Technology
14:45 - 15:20 INTERVIEW: Evaluating the power of price prediction with big data and machine learning-
Where is this data coming from, how can this be mined and analysed accurately?
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Insight on trading algorithms that make picks based on specific ''signals'' in data and understanding the capabilities of these predictive models
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What is the real advantage of computers over human stock pickers? Is there a balance of the two needed?
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How do the computers actually work regarding sourcing a price, evaluating risk and execution?
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How to sustain that competitive edge when the algo patterns are discovered?
Stream C: Buy Side Drill Down Roundtables
14:45 - 15:20 Stream C continuedStream D: Buy Side Head Trader Think Tank
14:45 - 15:20 Stream D continuedStream A: Best Execution and New Liquidity Opportunities
15:20 - 15:40 INTERVIEW: Redefining the sell side’s strategic customer value proposition – How to best drive value-add and what are the buy side looking for?-
How are buy side demands evolving and what level of customisation is needed and expected in todays’ market?
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Best strategies to remain flexible with offerings and ensuring you offer the operational backbone essential to cater for your clients requests
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How are brokers coping with more value expected at a better cost
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What are the consultancy and optimisation offerings available that asset managers are not investing in?
Stream B: Innovations in Trading Technology
15:20 - 15:40 Best trading and execution technology: Technology choices for racing ahead at LMAX exchange
Stream C: Buy Side Drill Down Roundtables
15:20 - 15:40 Stream C continued
Stream D: Buy Side Head Trader Think Tank
15:20 - 15:40 Stream D continued15:40 - 16:10 Afternoon Coffee & Networking
Stream A: Best Execution and Venue Analysis
16:10 - 16:30 Integrating trading into the investment process-
Why trading needs to be an integral part of the investment decision
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Improving alpha capture in the interface between investment and trading
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How the investment decision can guide how the trade is structured
Stream B: Trading Strategies for Volatile Markets
16:10 - 16:30 How is T2S making European post-trading easier
Stream C: Trading New Assets
16:10 - 16:30 The evolution of the ETF landscape and the impact for the investor-
High level industry overview
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Ecosystem explanation - How we provide liquidity, both on-and off exchange and what is needed
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Developments in the ETF industry (products, liquidity providing, shifts in asset focus)
Stream A: Best Execution and Venue Analysis
16:30 - 17:05 DISCUSSION PANEL: What advances in venue analysis are enabling traders to provide more detailed trade routing information to their end clients?-
What are the new demands for the buy side and how can they take responsibility for this new reporting?
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Where are the trades being executed and how can asset managers really get this information?
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If trades are not executed, why did this happen?
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Who are the players of tomorrow that better analyse order routing
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How are these technology providers offering something different?
Stream B: Trading Strategies for Volatile Markets
16:30 - 17:05 ALL STAR PANEL: Trading Russian stocks- if the most sophisticated investors are investing, why aren’t you?-
How to get in on the action: What are the easiest and safest investment strategies?
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Current evaluation and challenges of the Russian economy and predictions for the future
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Riding the wave of volatility- are equities and equity-like products the answer?
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What are the returns and do they outweigh the risk?
Stream C: Trading New Assets
16:30 - 17:05 DISCUSSION PANEL: What are the first steps in stopping market abuse?-
How is abusive market activity impacting institutions?
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Spoofing: How can companies monitor this and where is the innovation of sophisticated monitoring capabilities?
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Insight into current cooperation between exchanges, other trading venues and market participants
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How can you work better with law enforcement bodies on describing what level of restrictions are sufficient for the public and algo traders the current demands from the institutional investors and why they are asking more for HFT investment strategies
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How can you use non-live testing of algos to help preventmarket disorder and market abuse?
