| PROGRAMME | |
| DAY ONE (29 September 2016) |
| 08:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 | Chairman’s Opening Remarks |
| 09:15 | Meeting the growing market demand for high performance connectivity to Exchanges across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the region |
| 10:00 | Morning Refreshments |
| 10:15 | High frequency trading and approaches to take when executing buy-side client’s trades |
| 11:00 | Fitting HFT within the modern trading landscape and seeking successful deployment strategies: challenges ahead |
| 11:45 | Institutional Fund Managers and Hedge Fund Managers: Implementing improved and diversified electronic trading offerings |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | The value in moving to a converged IP network and how to integrate these applications to make trading operations more efficient and lay the foundation for potential new types of applications- key considerations |
| 14:45 | Dark pool trading platform: key issues and challenges |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Refreshments |
| 15:45 | Algorithmic trading: what do investment firms want from these new algo? |
| 16:30 | Panel Discussion on Best Execution This panel discussion brings together leading financial firms from the buy and sell side communities to discuss and present on the key issues and challenges to achieving best execution across the range of asset classes |
| 17:00 | End of Day One |
| DAY TWO (30 September 2016) |
| 09:00 | Chairman’s Opening Remarks |
| 09:15 | Market microstructure, price formation and price discovery: impact on trading systems and trade execution |
| 10:00 | Morning Refreshments |
| 10:15 | Direct Market Access (DMA): New challenges for brokers and exchanges |
| 11:00 | The commercial rationale of FIX in electronic trading applications to facilitate efficient trading connectivity and investment strategies |
| 11:45 | Best practices for integrating your trading process into your portfolio management |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Identifying, developing and deploying technologies to support multiple asset classes, market data, connectivity solutions and process: What the sell side needs to know |
| 14:45 | Electronic trading: expanding global podium, diversification opportunities and investment for investors |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Refreshments |
| 15:45 | Buy-side viewpoint: Key issues in cost, efficiency opportunities and exploiting the dealing capabilities of in-house applications |
| 16:30 | Concluding Discussion Electronic trading: is your trading platform supercharged or stuck in first gear? |
| 17:00 | End of Conference |
Securities trading environment is now faced with critical challenges. Gain new strategies to move large blocks of share with minimum market impact on institutional trading environment - what you need to know. Recent changes to business fundamentals, regulatory requirements and government legislation that will increase foreign investment activity is driving electronic trading and the use of FIX to the fore in the minds of industry leaders in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the region. In addition, the pending change in foreign content limits coupled with performance pressure and regulatory requirements make electronic trading not only imminent but inevitable. It is important now to recognise that the securities trading environment is faced with a sea of changes and the tried and true processes may no longer ensure the viability of an organisation.
The Conference brings together leaders from the buy-side, sell-side, market infrastructure and solution provider firms to consider the implications of electronic trading for Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the region’s marketplace, and the use of FIX as a key enabler in achieving securities transaction processing efficiency and ultimately straight through processing. Key issues to be discussed at this Conference will include on regulatory, infrastructure, trading and operations perspective.
Attend this Conference to develop new strategy and to speed on the latest developments in the automated race for liquidity. Develop or reinforce your own business plans by interacting with industry contemporaries who are facing the same challenges. Learn about and add your perspective to the following topics:
Are you prepared for the explosive growth of HFT? As high-frequency traders eye opportunities across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and the region, emerging markets are joining the low-latency race, increasing exchange throughput capacity, lowering latency and creating a friendlier regulatory environment. Against this backdrop, business transitions have transformed from a typical legacy infrastructure to next generation technology. Are you prepared for the explosive growth of HFT and how can you leverage from this Conference to implement and fitting HFT within the modern trading landscape and thereby managing a successful deployment strategies. |
