TradeTech Centre Stage: Trading Challenges and Opportunities

1. Buy side leaders roundtable discussions focused on the most important trading challenges and opportunities presented to buy side by the current markets.
2. Big ideas speakers; bringing you the most innovative, interesting and unusual thinkers in the capital markets.
3. Focus on trading venues and architecture; exploring the latest technologies and trading solutions that will help bring volumes back into the markets
4. Regulatory focus day; an entire day dedicated to debating market structure and giving feedback directly to the regulators
5. Focus on swaps and derivatives; helping you drive your strategy in multi-asset electronic trading
6. Looking at the future of capital markets and the trading profession; what do low volumes mean for your long term future

TradeTech Centre Stage; In the morning of Day 1 and Day 2 (17 & 18 April)on the main stage we will cover:

• The changing paradigm of broker/buy side relationship; what value does the investor look for and where is it going to take everyone’s business model?
• The future of midsize broker; differentiation, specialisation, globalisation?
• The power of quant and how it could drive your business
• Centralising vs decentralising your trading desk; different business strategies vs results
• Debating the value and future landscape of exchanges; will their business model and proposition change and how?
• Have dark pools lost their original purpose and are they bound to become extinct?
• What would you do if you had the regulator’s job?
• Understanding the high tech operational risk: the devil is in detail; or is it?

Plus...1 new focus day on the 16 April in central London

• TradeTech HFT: Low latency, high throughput technology for HFT