Tuesday 18 November 2008
Masterclass A - Mastering Dark Pools And MTFs (Multilateral Trading Facilities)

Registration 08.30

Masterclass runs from 09.00 to 12.30 including networking breaks

This masterclass is your opportunity to benefit from a deep dive perspective into the opportunities and challenges of using dark pools and MTFs. Find out what the experience has been of leading European and US trading desks in capitalizing on the new market landscape to enable your team to achieve ever better results and best execution.

Issues covered will include:

• Integrating dark pools / MTFs into your trading strategy: understanding what's available and what's most appropriate for your firm
  
• “Trusting the medium”: preserving anonymity and dealing with information leakage concerns of the buy side
  
• Selecting and implementing post trade measurements to evaluate the effectiveness of dark pools
  
• Effectively integrating OMS/EMS systems with dark pools
  
• The rise of 'co-opetition': increasing collaboration amongst dark pools/ MTFs - what will this mean for the buy side?
  
• Dark pools algorithms: understanding how Smart Order Routing technology can be deployed to intelligently sweep liquidity across dark pools whilst achieving best price and execution
  
• Lessons to be learnt from Asian, European and American experiences of dark pools

About your masterclass leader:

Matthew Samelson Senior Analyst Aite Group

Matt Samelson is a Senior Analyst at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in equity market structure, trading venues, and transaction cost analysis. He brings to Aite Group a wealth of experience in global equity sales and trading. He has in-depth knowledge of trading strategy formulation, algorithmic trading, transaction cost measurement and management, trading venues and market mechanics.