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On October 23rd, 550+ senior market participants are expected to join FPL at the organisation’s annual Americas Trading Conference. Attendees will benefit from hearing the detailed insights of more than 55 expert speakers, carefully selected based on their extensive industry knowledge of the critical issues, challenges and opportunities set to impact trading desks in the year ahead.
Through separate business and technical streams this event will address topics including:
• Understanding the needs of the U.S. buy-side trading community
• HFT, increased fragmentation, enforced correlation between different asset classes and the growth of automation – are these factors impacting the quality of our markets?
• The accelerating needs for TCA and execution quality across the asset classes
• How have Dodd-Frank and the global financial crisis changed market structure and the landscape of SDRs and SEFs with respect to liquidity and transparency?
• Navigating the new bond electronic execution venues
• As traditional boundaries between market participants break down, is there a greater cost to the entire ecosystem?
• The evolution of the FX markets in 2012, trading in a new fragmented playing field where the old rules no longer apply
• Anonymity vs. transparency – how can you get the best prices in FX trading?
• The implications of true multi-asset class trading on your business model
• How increased use of FIX could enhance the global equity post-trade process between the buy and sell-side
• Enhancements to the FIX Protocol—how they can help your firm meet emerging regulatory requirements
• How FPL’s recommended best practices for using FIX to support the trading of fixed income products could help increase efficiencies and lower connectivity costs
• Evaluating SEF readiness from a technology perspective
• Plus much, much more!
Also, this year’s event will feature a pre-event buy-side breakfast panel led by impartial, senior industry experts discussing the topic of ‘Risk Management in the Age of High-Profile Market Disruptions’ as well as live working group updates.
FPL member firms benefit from an allocation of FREE passes at this event and FREE passes are also available to all buy-side market participants and regulatory representatives. For more information please visit www.fixprotocol.org/americas2012