Last Chance to Register to Attend the EMEA Trading Conference

Imported from previous forum

Registration Closes End of Day Today

17 March - Old Billingsgate - London
www.fixprotocol.org/emeaconference2009

Free Passes Available for all Buy-Side Attendees - Allocation of Free Passes for all FPL Member firms

Confirmed Key Note Speakers:
Anthony Hilton, Financial Editor at the Evening Standard will be exploring the current economic climate and Ben Gunnee, Director for Mercer Sentinel Europe, Mercer will be providing a pension fund’s perspective on the new risk environment.

Attend this event to discover:
• What will be the key priorities for the buy-side in late 2009 and 2010
• How changes to liquidity are impacting trading practices
• How your firm can improve its risk management
• How the new European trading venues are reacting to changing market conditions
• The challenges that remain within the post-MiFID environment in the post-trade space
• If listing and standardisation are the answer to reducing structural and counterparty risk?
• Are we really achieving best execution?
• To what extent firms are running cross-asset class trading desks and the technical and business challenges involved in doing so
• What’s new about FAST Version 1.2
• Why the exchanges /ECN community is increasingly exploring and adopting FIX 5.0
• The technical challenges and options available to firms looking to Smart-Order-Route
• The challenges of latency and how these can be overcome
Detailed agenda now available at www.fixprotocol.org/emeaconference2009

More than 50 Confirmed Speakers Including:

  • Betsy Anderson, Head of Centralised Dealing, Ignis Asset Management
  • Rolf Andersson, Co-Chair FPL Market Data Optimisation Working Group, CEO, Pantor Engineering AB
  • George Andreadis, Head of AES Liquidity Strategy, Europe, Credit Suisse
  • Scott Atwell, FPL Global Steering Committee Co-Chair, Manager of FIX Trading and Connectivity, American Century Investments
  • Richard Balarkas, President and CEO, Instinet
  • Danielle Ballardie, Head of Strategic Product Development, London Stock Exchange
  • Daemon Bear, FPL EMEA Regional Committee Co-Chair, MD, Head of BlockCross, ICAP Securities Ltd
  • Niki Beattie, CEO, The Market Structure Practice
  • Philip Beevers, Chief Architect, Fidessa
  • Robert Boardman, Head of Algorithmic Sales for ITG in Europe, ITG Europe
  • Andrew Bowley, Head of Execution Services, Nomura International
  • Matteo Cassina, President of Citadel Execution Services Europe, Citadel Group
  • Nigel Coleman, Head of Equity Trading, Credit Suisse
  • Charlotte Crosswell, President, NASDAQ OMX Europe
  • Alan Dean, Global Head of Cross Asset FIX Connectivity, Global Banking & Markets, HSBC Bank plc
  • Wolfgang Eholzer, Head of Trading System Design, Eurex
  • Artur Fischer, Joint CEO, Equiduct Trading
  • Bob Fuller, Chief Executive Officer, Exchange Axis
  • Todd Golub, COO, NASDAQ OMX Europe
  • Kevin Houstoun, Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee, Consultant, HSBC Bank plc, Chairman, Rapid Addition
  • James Hunt, Senior Developer, Rapid Addition
  • Chris Jackson, Co-Chair FPL EMEA Regional Committee, Director, Execution Sales, Merrill Lynch
  • Carl James, Global Head of Dealing, Fortis Investments
  • Luke Jeffs, Technology Editor, Financial News
  • Paul Kelly, Director, NYFIX International
  • Scott Kennedy, Global Business Manager, Direct Feeds, Thomson Reuters
  • Hanno Klein, Co-Chair FPL Exchanges and Markets Committee, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Boerse Group
  • Alex Kuppler, Managing Director, Head of Equity Trading, DWS Investments
  • Eli Lederman, Chief Executive, Turquoise
  • John Lee, Publisher, The Trade
  • Hirander Misra, Chief Operating Officer, Chi-X Europe
  • Ted Myerson, President, FTEN, Inc.
  • Jim Northey, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group
  • Ryan Pierce, Co-Chair FPL Implementation and Optimisation Working Group, Technical Director, FIX Protocol Limited
  • John Prewett, Co-Chair FPL Implementation and Optimisation Working Group, Vice President, Citi, Lava Trading
  • Fahiem Rahim, Head of Technical Services, Rapid Addition
  • Mark Reece, Trading Systems Architect, London Stock Exchange
  • Guy Sears, Director, Wholesale, Investment Management Association (IMA)
  • Richard Semark, Managing Director - European Equities, UBS Investment Bank
  • John Serocold, Director, London Investment Banking Association (LIBA)
  • Matt Simpson, Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee, Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture, CME Group
  • Chris Sims, Head of Investment Operations, Gartmore Investment Management
  • Lisa Taikitsadaporn, Managing Partner, Brook Path Partners, Inc.
  • Kee-Meng Tan, Managing Director, Head of the Electronic Trading Group (ETG) in Europe, Knight Equity Markets International Ltd.
  • Natan Tiefenbrun, Commercial Director, Baikal
  • Kristian West, Head of Equity Trading for London, JP Morgan Asset Management
  • John Whitmore, Senior Policy Advisor, Markets Division, The Financial Services Authority (FSA)
  • Tim Wildenberg, Head of Direct Execution, Europe, UBS Investment Bank
  • Steven Wood, Global Head of Trading, Schroder Investment Management
  • Jonathan Wykes, Director, Head of Sales for AES FX in Europe, Credit Suisse

To register to attend this event please visit www.fixprotocol.org/event/emea09 by end of day Thursday, March 12th.