Event Benefits

• ASIC Regs -Practical advice from your industry colleagues on complying with ASIC’s 1st March best execution deadline and the impact of new increased controls on algorithmic and dark liquidity
• Best Execution -Update yourself on the latest trading tools and strategies to execute efficiently at current market levels
• Tech Trends and strategies -Evaluate the latest developments in latency, risk management and big data to integrate them into your technology roadmap
• Premium Networking - Meet and do business with key traders and technology investment decision makers from the leading buy-side and brokers
• Multi-market challenges -Determine best practice as multi-market competition between ASX and Chi-X becomes a reality. Also don’t miss our discussions on clearing competition and what it means for you
• An event where you will meet 250+ attendees.

Key challenges of the trading industry in Australia in 2013 which will be discuss during TradeTech Australia

• ASIC regulations:What impact will they have on dealing desk and technology upgrades?
• Sourcing liquidity:How can traders best navigate the search for liquidity across lit and dark markets? What is the role of dark pools, algos and sales traders?
• HFT:A valuable source of liquidity or frontrunning investors out of the market?
• The aftermath of multi-market access –what next for market participants as ASX and Chi-X ramp up their technology and services?
• Changes, challenges and opportunitiesin the clearing and settlement landscape
• Driving change through technologyin capex-constricted times

TradeTech Australia is growing by the day with bookings coming in thick and fast. As of 15 January over 50 leading technology decision makershave registered including:

• Tim Thurman, CIO, ASX
• Jim Burke, CIO, WESTPAC INSTITUTIONAL BANK
• Dr Patrick Maes, Chief Technology Officer, ANZ
• Jamie Vachon, Head of Technology, AMP CAPITAL
• Paul Cazaz, Head of Technology - Fixed Income, Integration, Operations, Finance and Treasury, NAB
• John Butler, Head of Markets Technology, CITI
• Mike Aikins, Chief Technology Officer, CHI-X AUSTRALIA
• Michael Cameron, Investment Technology Solutions, CHALLENGER FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP
• Graham Penn, Head of IT - Asia Pacific, SUSQUEHANNA PACIFIC
• Zoltan Glozik, Head of Technology, EPOCH CAPITAL
• Amit Kapoor, Head - Equities Technology, NOMURA
• Andrew Broad, Associate Director of Information Technology, MACQUARIE GROUP SERVICES AUSTRALIA

We also have 70qualified buy-side traders including:

• Andrew Taylor,Equity Dealer, ALLIANCE BERNSTEIN
• Andrew Fraser,Head of Trading, MERLON CAPITAL PARTNERS
• Mark Thompson,Head of Dealing, VICTORIAN FUNDS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
• David Tran,Dealer, PARADICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
• Matthew Okkerse,Senior Equities Dealer, AUSBIL DEXIA
• Minh Tieu,Equity Trader, VANGUARD INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA LTD
• Bernard Orenstein,Director, Trading, eSTATS FUNDS MANAGEMENT PTY LTD
• Brett McElwee,Principal and Executive Director, CONTINUUM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LTD
• Nicholas Mcrae,Regional Trader, STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS
• Christine To,Vice President and Head of Asian Trading, Equity Trading, T. ROWE PRICE
• Joe Kassel,Global Head - Equities Dealing, AMP CAPITAL INVESTORS LIMITED
• Andrew Briscoe,Senior Equity Dealer, COLONIAL FIRST STATE GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

For more information about who has registered please contact us at wbrinfo@wbresearch.com