Richard Balarkas

Chief Executive Officer
Quendon Consulting

Having held positions as CEO, COO and in specialist sales and marketing, Richard has broad experience in the financial services sector. He has been described as a pioneer of electronic trading, having been in the vanguard of change in equity trading and market structure since the mid 1980's. Now he is an independent consultant advising brokers, fund managers and exchanges on all aspects of execution services, electronic trading, market structure and regulation.

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Trade Tech Europe 2016 - Main Conference Day 2

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

09:10 Chair's Opening Remarks

11:00 ALL STAR PANEL: Equity market fragmentation- Where is it coming from and what are the opportunities for your desk to generate alpha?

Turning challenges into opportunities: How are regulators explaining the rise of new systems and venues as a growth opportunity for liquidity?
How are systematic internalisers (SIs) impacting the market? Are they driving healthy competition or adding increased fragmentation?
How can SIs help companies develop a more flexible infrastructure that can respond to changes in flow and liquidity?
What is the attitude to new entrants and what do they need to demonstrate to prove they are adding liquidity?

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?

12:20 ALL STAR PANEL: How are innovations in crossing networks and block trading contributing to market liquidity?

How can blocks create liquidity and what is the expected market impact?
Managing transaction costs and how will this impact market structure
What is the future of smarter trading through blocks with increased costs on research and market analysis
How are they being accepted by the regulators and how much more liquidity are they providing to the market?
How are Luminex and Plato developing as effective, trusted and clean crossing networks?

14:00 Chairperson's Opening Remarks

14:10 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?
What the questions you need to be asking your provider to ensure you outperform the benchmark and are constantly optimising?
Best analysing the performance of algos and making smart decisions based on this analysis
Identifying what happens to your order once routed, and how your algos are behaving

15:40 FIRE SIDE CHAT: China- what has happened post crash and what are the opportunities for your desk?

How do Chinese regulators compare to European regulators regarding management of potential market crash
What are the current developments with the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect
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?
How is the HFT market developing and volumes changing?
What would they have done differently?

TradeTech Europe 2016 (past event)