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FX MARKETS EUROPE 2023 EVENT AGENDA

FX MARKETS EUROPE - 2023 AGENDA

09:10 – 09:40

FIRESIDE CHAT: FX GLOBAL CODE OF CONDUCT -- THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY

09:10 - 09:30

STEPHANE MALRAIT

Global head of market structure and innovation for financial markets

ING Bank

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure and
Innovation for Financial Markets, at ING Bank. Stephane is responsible for
following the market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial
market industry. He is leading innovation activities internal to ING and also
external partnerships and developments with Fintech companies. He actively
contributes to industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all
financial market products and to develop on the financial market group’s
cross-asset eCommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years
at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an
eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market, and
FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in
different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset
eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need
for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and
market structure workflows. He is leading ING's Financial Market Innovation
strategy and also working on the implementation of financial regulations that
will impact the client trading activities and transform how the trading floor
operates.

Stephane is also a board member for several Fintech market initiatives and
trading associations. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial
Market Association - an international non-profit organisation that represents
the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets.
Here, he has chaired the ACI FX Committee, representing the views of
professionals in the FX sector. He is also an active member of the ECB FX
contact group working on the BIS Global FX code of conduct working groups.



LISA DUKES

Co-founder of treasury consultant

Dukes & King

Lisa has over 15 years experience across senior roles spanning treasury,
corporate finance & complex derivatives. More recently Lisa co-founded the
corporate finance and risk management firm Dukes & King, putting this value
driven expertise into practice for a greater number of corporates and funds. She
is active in sharing corporate best practice in the application and development
of value optimising risk management featuring in a number of global
publications. Over the last few years in particular her focus has been
structuring innovative new solutions, spanning the entire corporate finance
spectrum. These multi-faceted derivatives and treasury solutions consider and
balance the often competing factors to deliver the end-to-end solutions, many of
which have won awards and high commendations. Lisa is also a member of the FX
Joint Standing Committee chaired by the Bank of England and is the UK
Representative to the Global FX Committee for the private sector.



CONCEPTION ALONSO

Head of section – international markets

European Central Bank

Conception Alonso is the head of the International Markets Section in the
Directorate General Market Operations at the ECB.

She has been working at the ECB since its inception where she first worked as
economist in the Directorate General International Relations. She joined the
Directorate Market Operations in 2004 and was involved in the implementation of
monetary policy. From 2007 to 2016, she has primarily focused on the design and
the implementation of non-standard monetary policy measures (fixed rate full
allotment policy, longer term refinancing operations) and in particular the
assets purchase programmes (ABSPP, CBPP3 and CSPP). She is heading the
International Markets Section since November 2016 and is responsible for FX
related matters, market intelligence in several market segments and the
management of the ECB’s foreign reserves.



09:40 – 10:20

OPENING PANEL: THE LAST SIX MONTHS / THE NEXT SIX MONTHS

09:30 - 10:00

Amidst a backdrop of geopolitical crisis and volatility, the FX market has
continued to evolve by embracing analytics and efficiency boosting technology as
well as a fostering a continued interest in digital currencies. As the market
evolves at an accelerated pace, what are market leaders anticipating over the
next six months?

 * Audience votes on which predictions are most likely to happen

DAVID PAGE

Head of macroeconomic research

AXA Investment Managers

David Page is head of macroeconomic research at AXA Investment Managers. He
manages a global team of 10 economists and strategists, is a regular guest on
Bloomberg TV and other global media. Page joined AXA Investment Managers in July
2014 as a senior economist to provide economics coverage on US and UK economies.
He has written extensively on the US economy, covering elections, fundamental
monetary policy debates and issues of fiscal stimulus. Before joining AXA
Investment Managers, Page worked for four years at Lloyds Bank Commercial
Banking as a senior economist, primarily covering the UK economy. During this
time, he was twice voted the top forecaster in the region in 2011 and 2012 (and
came third in 2013). Prior to this, Page worked for 10 years at Investec Bank as
a global economist, primarily covering the UK and European economies. Before
this, he spent five years in the Government Economic Service, initially working
for the energy regulator before joining the UK Debt Management Office – an
executive agency of HM Treasury – at its inception in 1998, considering issues
of primary issuance for the UK gilt market. Page holds a masters of science
degree in economics from the University of Warwick, UK and a bachelor's degree
in Economics from the University of York.

 



VIRAJ PATEL

Senior strategist and partner

Vanda research

Viraj is a Senior Strategist and joined Vanda in 2020 from Arkera where he was
Head of Macro & Geopolitics Research. Prior to this, Viraj worked as an FX
Strategist at ING and had roles at Barclays Wealth and the Bank of England.
Viraj graduated in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA
charterholder.



ARNOB BISWAS

FX macro strategist

SMC Global Securities



FRANCESCO PESOLE

FX strategist

ING



HINRICH WILHELM PAUL

Global head of financial markets

Commerzbank

Hinrich Paul joined Commerzbank in 2010 starting his career in the inhouse
consultancy of
Commerzbank. After serving as Executive Assistant for the IB CEO Hinrich joined
the trading
desk of Commerzbank’s Treasury department and took over the local trading head
for FX
Germany thereafter. Since 2021 Hinrich is responsible for the global FX, IR and
Commodities trading of Commerzbank.


Hinrich holds a Master in Economics from the University of Tübingen.



NIKITA FADEEV

Partner

Fasanara Capital



10:20 – 11:00

PRESENTATIONS: PLATFORMS, PRODUCTS, PROTOCOLS

10:00 - 10:30

 * Three FX trading venues discuss the changing face of multilateral trading
 * Which products will electronify next?
 * Will e-trading for forwards and swaps take off in 2023?Where and how will
   participants choose to interact?

11:00 – 11:30

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK AND KNOWLEDGE CAFE

15:30 - 16:00

Grab a coffee and join one of our interactive and informal knowledge cafes.
Located in front of the coffee station, these sessions are completely
confidential and led by industry experts. 

 * Overcoming capital and margin challenges
 * Emerging markets

11:30 – 12:10

CURRENT STATE OF PLAY: ELECTRONIFICATION

12:00 - 12:30

 * Navigating the complex landscape of FX trade execution: adoption of
   electronic execution: leveraging algos for maximum efficiency
 * Smart decision making – the voice trading point of view, what makes sense
   from an electronic trading point of view, where to differentiate within
   electronic trading and where do different protocols work?

ALLAN GUILD

Director

Hilltop Walk Consulting



ASIF RAZAQ

Global head of FX algo execution

BNP Paribas

Asif Razaq is an experienced foreign exchange algo trader with over 15 years of
experience developing electronic trading platforms. He has a masters of science
degree in artificial intelligence (AI) and joined BNP Paribas from Citi, where
he worked on various initiatives including e-FX pricing engines and algorithmic
trading. Utilising his experience in AI, Razaq developed and launched Cortex iX,
a cutting-edge FX algorithmic execution platform that has been highly acclaimed
by clients and industry experts globally.



12:10 – 12:50

PUBLIC VS PRIVATE

11:00 - 11:30

 * Market participants are increasingly sensitive to market impact, and
   increasingly wary of big, public order books
 * Is bilateral trading the answer? Can buy and sell-side firms replace
   multi-dealer venues with a collection of two-way liquidity streams?
 * Pros, cons and the prospects for these kind of venues

12:50 – 14:00

NETWORKING LUNCH

RE-CONNECT AND MEET NEW CONTACTS AS WE RETURN TO IN PERSON!

12:20 - 13:20

14:00 – 14:40

HOW FX DEALING DESKS ARE IMPLEMENTING TECH TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE

11:30 - 12:00

 * The emerging trends in the Transactional FX space and how organisations are
   implementing technology to meet these needs
 * Identifying the challenges
 * Key considerations for the Transactional FX space when it comes to
   post-trade, compliance and reporting

BHUPEN VELANI

Global head, transactional FX trading

Bank of America



MYRIAM SIFAOUI

Global emerging chief operating officer - director

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB


 

 



14:40 – 15:20

OPTIMIZED CLEARING: EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION

14:40 - 15:20

 * How has clearing evolved over the past year?
 * Focus on NDF and FX option clearing volumes
 * The impact of UMR deadlines
 * The evolving role and relationship with counterparties
 * Overcoming challenges on liquidity for FX swaps and forwards

MARCUS BUTT

Managing director prime services

NatWest Markets

Prior to taking responsibility for FX Prime Services, Marcus was responsible for
sales across Prime Brokerage, Futures & OTC Clearing and for the OTC Clearing
product in EMEA.

Before joining RBS, Marcus spend 17 years at UBS where he held a number of roles
in Prime Services, Securities Lending and FX



15:30 – 16:00

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 11:00

Knowledge cafes

Join one of practitioner led, confidential table top discussions including:

 * Emerging markets
 * Electronic spots

 

16:00 – 16:40

TACKLING FX SETTLEMENT CHALLENGES: THE RISE OF RISK

16:00 - 16:40

 * Managing FX settlement risk - counterparty risk
 * SA-CCR and margin rules: implications and impact
 * New tools and technology - platforms to ease settlement rate

16:40 – 17:20

CLOSING KEYNOTE: THE FUTURE OF CRYPTO TRADING AND DIGITAL ASSETS

16:40 - 17:20

As they crypto market rests in limbo, how are industry experts envisioning the
future of crypto trading and digital assets? 

ITAY TUCHMAN

Former global head of foreign exchange, Citi

Independent FX markets expert



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