Stephen is the Head of LGIM’s Global Trading team. He joined LGIM in 2012 from Barclays Wealth where he held the position of Global Head of Dealing and Sales Trading. At Barclays Wealth, Stephen was responsible for buy-side trading team for the active asset management division and sales trading for small institutions and individual clients. Prior to Barclays Wealth Management, he was Head of Global Dealing for Fortis Investments based in Paris.

Gianluca oversees Pioneer Investments trading operations worldwide in Asia, the U.S.A. and Europe. He is also the London Branch Manager of Pioneer Investment Management Limited (PIML). In his role, Gianluca is responsible for all asset classes including fixed income, equites and FX. Under Gianluca’s remit, Pioneer have streamlined their processes and set up a multi asset trading desk. Gainluca will be sharing his expertise on multi asset trading during the keynote panel slot, where he will discuss exactly what you need to make multi asset trading a reality.  

Jutta is responsible for the Allianz Global Investors centralised Fixed Income trading desk, the number 1 fixed income asset manager in Europe, with traders being located in Frankfurt, Paris and London. Jutta will be providing her expertise on how the wave of new fixed income platforms will affect the fixed income landscape, and what key criteria you should look out for when selecting new partners. 

Ruben Winnink is Head of Trading at APG Asset Management, responsible for managing a 16 man cross-asset trading team, that covers markets ranging from Equities, Commodities, FX, Fixed Income to Money markets. On a day-to-day basis Ruben is closely involved in Interest rate derivatives trading, using a flexible style to make sure that strategic liability-hedges of APG’s pensionfund clients are implemented and rebalanced in ‘best execution’ fashion. Through his active involvement in fixed income markets he has gained expertise on current and forthcoming changes in the markets’ microstructure and how to address them. Ruben has over 15 years experience in interest rate markets, in roles on both sell- and buy-side.

As the Head of Trading at one of Europe’s leading asset managers, Christoph manages trading activities for the entire portfolio including cash equities, listed and OTC derivatives, funds and ETFs and possesses extensive experience in portfolio management and trading. At Union Investments, Christoph is currently exploring new ways to integrate a multi-asset trading strategy and improve trading capabilities going forward. He  will be sharing his practical experience on the opening panel of day 2, offering you the opportunity to takeaway top tips on how to go about integrating multi asset trading capabilities on your trading desk.

Erik Tham sits on the central Fixed Income electronic order execution / trading desk of UBS Wealth Management, one of Europe’s leading buy-side houses for Fixed Income securities. Erik has actively been evaluating new fixed income initiatives in order to establish the right partners to assist his trading operations at UBS Wealth Management. On the back of his extensive fixed income trading experience, Erik will be providing his expert view on the key functionalities of key fixed income platforms that can help you prosper in the increasing electronic landscape. 

As the head of FX and MM for AXA IM, the 2nd largest money manager in 2015, Lee covers both the Paris and London offices. After 10 years as an Investment Manager, Lee Sanders made the move to trading to help set up an execution function for FI and FX and MM and this has slowly been rolled out to a more a global role. Lee Sanders has embraced changes in e-commerce and market structure and by doing so has helped make the desks he manages more efficient. Lee will be sharing his expertise on what factors he feels will determine the success of new fixed income initiatives during his session on day 1.

As the Head of Fixed Income Execution covering both France and the UK, Yann is responsible for fixed income and OTC derivatives execution &  Trading Developments for AXA IM, consisting of 2 London Traders and 6 Paris Traders. He is working closely with his IT and compliance department to better align their approach to maximize trading efficiency. With his IT department, Yann is now in charge developing internal pricing and OMS tools to ensure pre- trade and post-trade checks. he has also been using AXA’s in-house version of TCA since 2008.,is now being deployed across Paris, London, Hong Kong and Greenwich. He will be sharing his practical experience on TCA to help you implement a reliable TCA strategy for your Fixed Income Trading Desk.

David is responsible for AXA-IM’s US and UK economic research and forecasting. As part of this role David formulates central bank rate policy calls for these regions and works with bond and equity strategists to construct market views and asset allocation assessments. David regularly liaises with AXA-IM clients across North America, Europe and the UK. This exposure equips him with rich feedback on client views and concerns, which in turn helps feed his global views and understanding of what drives international investment markets. As AXA-IM’s principle economist for research distribution across North America and the UK, David will be providing the buy side economic view on key opportunities that will arise over the next 12 months that your trading desk can take advantage of.

Mr. Perryman joined the firm in 2009 and is responsible for all aspects of emerging markets fixed income trading, including cash bonds, currencies and derivatives. He was previously an emerging markets trader at the Standard Bank’s fund management division dealing with hard and local currency bonds, FX and CDS. Prior to that, Mr. Perryman served as a credit team’s portfolio analyst at Morley Fund Management and before that worked at the London Stock Exchange. He holds an Investment Management Certificate and a Diploma in Technical Analysis from the Society of Technical Analysts.

As Head of Strategy in the team at UBS Global Asset Management, Max analyses the market trends affecting the investment behaviour of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other state-controlled investment institutions, and works closely with the investment teams in providing investment advice and developing tailored investment solutions for this client segment. Max is a member of the UBS Global Sovereign Management Committee, and he has established himself as a thought leader on the key economic, financial and political trends driving the investment landscape and investors' behaviour. He is often called in by leading institutions as an expert on global economic and financial matters, and he will be sharing his expertise as the keynote speaker at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit, covering the impact that Quantative Easing has had on European Financial markets to give you clarity on this latest monetary policy. 

Brigitte Le Bris joined Natixis Asset Management in September 2010 as Head of Currency and Global Fixed Income. Prior to this she was holding the same position at Societe Generale Asset Management now Amundi; she successfully developed the expertise on Global Fixed, Absolute return and more specifically on Forex. Now, as the head of Fixed Income and FX Emerging Markets, Brigitte is responsible for the strategic focus on emerging markets at Natixis, and will be providing expertise on where the key fixed income emerging market trends currently lie and how you can capitalise on these. 

Since the start of 2010, Thijs has been working as Managing Director Treasury & Trading at APG Asset Management, one of the biggest European fixed income money managers. In his trading role, Thijs has been responsible for arranging liquidity and achieving best execution for his internal clients, covering various markets such as Fixed Income, Credit, Currency, Equity, Commodity and Money Markets. As part of his treasury role he has responsibility for efficiently and effectively managing internal counterparty risk. Attend his debate on Principal vs. Agency sell side business models to learn which sell side business model can be best for assisting your trading desk.

Pasi joined Vanguard in January 2012, and is responsible for the European Fixed Income Index team. Prior to joining Vanguard, he worked as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at State Street Global Advisors and Danske Capital. He has over 10 years’ experience in the investment management industry and has an MSc (Econ.) from Helsinki School of Economics where he majored in Finance. Pasi is also a CFA charterholder.

Lucette Yvernault is responsible primarily for aggregate and global credit strategies at Schroder IM. Lucette’s responsibilities include include portfolio construction, investment and account reviews, and she possesses vast strategic experience including roles at Citigroup Asset Management. During her session, Lucette will be outlining what you can do to overcome the low interest rate environment and develop a winning strategy going forward. 

Christine possesses more than 25 years of experience in the investment industry, and alongside her role as a senior market strategist for the firm’s fixed income group, Christine also serves as chief compliance officer. Christine oversees both the portfolio management team and the trading desk, and as fixed income markets go through the process of a radical industrial change, Christine will provide advice on how she sees the boundaries between portfolio managers and traders changing within fixed income. 

David is a senior fixed income portfolio manager with broad experience across fixed income asset class including government bonds, corporate bonds, high yield bonds, money market and currency management. Specialising in total return and benchmark aware strategies. In addition, David possesses extensive experience in asset allocation between asset classes (equity, fixed income and alternatives). In his current role, David manages the full range of European fixed income funds and portfolios including: European Total Return, Euro Government, European Corporate, European Short Duration (1-3 yr) and Money Market funds. He is also responsible for active asset allocation between fixed income classes and countries, duration positioning, currency positioning and individual security selection. David will provide a strategic insight on how you can overcome the impact of a low interest rate environment in Europe and develop a winning portfolio.

Christophe Heads up the fixed income desk in Paris for BNP Dealing Services, one of the largest fixed income European money managers, where they cover credit, money market, convertibles, ETF and equity derivative products. Recently, Christophe has undertaken an assessment of different TCA offerings to establish what model of TCA can benefit the BNP Dealing Services platform. He will be sharing his first-hand experience on   the best methodologies for fixed income TCA, allowing you takeaway top tips on what to look for when assessing different TCA offerings.

In Justin’s current role, his remit is to evaluate and enhance the EMIR reporting processes for the Asset management business at Credit Suisse. To deliver on this strategy he will continue to leverage and utilise subject matter expertise aligned to my regulatory jurisdiction exposure and synchronise close working relationships with compliance, legal, IT and Front & Middle office business management trading operations. Previously, Justin was also responsible for the project implementation of regulatory reforms Dodd Frank & EMIR – phase 1 & 2 to the Markets Portfolio / legacy Structured Capital Markets business and to subsequently manage EMIR remediation work to the Prime Synthetics business at Barclays Investment Bank. Justin will be sharing all is regulatory experience and expertise when discussing how you can overcome issues relating to cross border compliance. 

David is the partner in a systematic hedge fund that trades 200 markets globally across fixed income, FX, equity indices, credit, commodities. The Fund started trading in August 2015 and, together with the CIO, David is responsible for the research and portfolio management of the fund. The Florin Court fund has a high proportion of emerging markets exposure, trading interest rate swaps across Latam, Eastern Europe and Asia as well as fixed income products more widely across G10, and David will be providing expertise on the key emerging market opportunities you should look out for over the next 12 months.

Javier possesses more than 25 years of experience in the investment industry, especially on the equity and fixed income markets where Javier is a pioneer developing investment products platforms in both markets. Javier is Managing Partner at Auriga Global Investors where oversees electronic trading division for equity and fixed income. On the equity side, Auriga has developed a trading engine with highest efficiency and lowest latency that allows Auriga to be one of the references on the Spanish equity industry. At the same time, Auriga is running the first and only Fixed Income online broker in Spain, where private banking and retail customers can find online trading solutions in the most liquid bonds of the world.

Vipul’s primary responsibility is to provide business solutions by leveraging technology and process know how for the Investment team. The areas he covers include change management and business analysis, vendor relationships for 3rd party investment systems, IT strategy and business process improvement amongst other things. With Vipul’s experience in his all encompassing role, he will be providing insights into what lessons can be learned from equities technology and what you should be looking to apply to your fixed income trading desk today. 

As Head of Investments, Luis actively contributes on the formulation of the company's Investment Policy at the Investment Committee at Credito Agricola Gest. Luis is responsible to set up the strategy to implement the Investment Policy in order to maximize returns assuring that all portfolio managers do comply with the risk limits and guidelines defined by the Committee. He closely work with the Institutional Clients department giving market insights to help drawing the Investment Policy and the development of new products for institutional clients: insurance portfolios and pension funds. With European Quantative Easing coming into force in early 2015, Luis will be providing the prose and cons of the new monetary policy, as well as providing insights on how you can reduce the impact of European QE.

Pauli is responsible for fixed income and FX trading globally for NBIM, managing a total team of 14 traders in Singapore, Oslo, London and New York. The trading desk is a part of the Asset Strategy Group, which set out to find the best way to obtain the desired market exposure. His trading team works closely with their portfolio managers to enhance returns on the portfolios. The trading desk also plays a central role when the fund rebalances or relocates its portfolio. As an active market player sourcing liquidity in the secondary market, Pauli is constantly is actively involved in testing the new electronic platforms out there to improve their capabilities. Pauli will be sharing his expertise on what you should be looking for when selecting new fixed income initiatives. 

As a recognized thought leader in market structure, regulatory reform and financial trading technology, Rebecca is an independent research analyst focusing on the complex challenges the financial service industry now faces and how technology can help address these, ultimately improving capital markets both for participants and investors. As a European Consultant for TABB Group since March 2011, Rebecca has authored an expanding catalogue of research papers and commentary covering European equities, FX, fixed income, dark pools, TCA, HFT, FTT, market surveillance, market structure and regulatory reform.

As head of the trading and order desk at BayernInvestKAG, Gerois in charge of 3 teams with 23 traders covering execution, cash- andcollateral-management. Over the last months he helped BayernInvest prepare forMiFID II January 2017, and EMIR and Dodd-Frank  As head of the trading and order desk at BayernInvest KAG, Gerois in charge of 3 teams with 23 traders covering execution, cash- and collateral-management. Over the last months he helped BayernInvest prepare for MiFID II January 2017, and EMIR and Dodd-Frank  requirements. On the back of this, Gero will be offering you his expert advice on what the next set of MiFID II regulations mean for your trading operations and how you can best prepare for these.  

Daniel is a portfolio manager at Aviva Investors London where he is responsible for managing about USD 2bn of emerging market debt. Daniel has over ten years experience in the investment industry working in risk and quantitative analysis prior to joining the emerging market team over five years ago. He will be sharing his insights into key emerging market trends and how to best exploit them.

Bahar Alsharif is Deputy Treasurer at International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, overseeing global expansion to Europe and Asia and is based in London. She has over 25 years of experience in treasury operations and portfolio management. In Washington, Bahar was in charge of the Cash Management Desk, managing IFC’s short-term fixed income portfolio, foreign exchange and banking relationships. She oversaw the set-up of investment portfolios in local currencies and emerging markets as well as the launch of a first-in-kind offshore Chinese renminbi discount note program in 2012 which complemented the US discount note program she implemented in 2008. As a senior member of IFC Treasury, Bahar has also focused on nurturing leadership at IFC by engaging in corporate Inductions, mentoring programs in Women’s network, and serves as a champion in the Corporation’s diversity and inclusion program.  Bahar is also a member of the Advisory Board at Official Monetary and Financial Institution Forum (OMFIF).  She holds a B.A. in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration and joined the World Bank Group in 1985.

Arjun is the Senior Advisor, Regulatory Affairs (Institutional & Capital Markets) at The Investment Association, where he works on all capital market and dealing-related issues. Prior to this, Arjun was the Head of EU Affairs at the British Bankers’ Association. Arjun has previously worked at the European Commission and started his career at Canada’s financial services regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. He completed his PhD and Master’s degree at the London School of Economics and his Bachelor’s degree in Canada and Germany.

Stephane has been active with the ACI since 2005, participating in ACI world congresses, meeting with global regulators and local ACI events in Europe. In October 2010 Stephane was nominated chair of the ACI FX committee. The FX committee is focussed on and comprised of FX Experts who support both the ACI Executive Board and Regional ACI’s and ensure that the views of the professional FX community are heard at the highest levels, in co-operation with other associations that have an FX. In 2015 Stephane worked with the ACI board to launch the ACI Fixed Income committee. Similar to the mission of the ACI FX Committee, the new Fixed Income committee look at changes in market structure in fixed income products (government and corporate bonds, fixed income derivative products), changes in regulation impacting the fixed income industry (UK FEMR review, MIFID II, …) and represent ACI in Fixed Income industry events.

In her current role, Elizabeth directs ICMA's efforts with MiFID II/MiFIR bond trading regulatory obligations, and the structural changes that MiFID II is driving is at the core of this role. The focus is creating commercially viable best practices in bond market trading. As the MiFID II deadline approaches, Elizabeth will be sharing her specific knowledge around MiFID II and advise you on how you can best prepare your trading desk for the January 2017 deadline.  

David Bullen runs his own independent advisory consultancy specialising in Fixed Income electronic trading and market structure change; driven both by regulatory reform and electronic efficiency.  Prior to this, David ran Citigroup's Global Rates & Credit e-Commerce businesses.  David previously managed Citi's cross-asset class FICC e-Commerce businesses in Europe and was also heavily involved in the launch of the FIX protocol to the Equities market whilst at Salomon Brothers in the late-90's so has a genuine cross-asset class appreciation of e-trading. David is now active with a variety of clients spanning areas as diverse as regulatory-driven futurisation in OTC interest rate space, efficiency changes in fixed income primary markets and a technology network utility-driven initiative in European credit markets.

Brad has a strong background in institutional listed and OTC rates and credit sales, Brad as well as working in cross asset trading roles. Having had the benefit of working in both equities and fixed income, and as leader of the Market Structure Advisory group at Knight Capital, Brad is well placed to share his perspective on the evolution of both asset classes. He will be sharing his views on the correlations between both asset classes, to put forward any applicable lessons you can learn from the equities evolution.

A financial markets industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, Anthony Perrotta is responsible for directing TABB Group’s Global Research Alliance and Consulting practices, which serve institutional investors in the capital markets. The practices focus on the areas of market structure, regulatory affairs, compliance, trading, clearing, technology, and data issues affecting equities, fixed income, listed and OTC derivatives, and technology. Mr. Perrotta presents at a wide range of industry conferences and his thought leadership regularly appears in such financial publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times et al. Mr. Perrotta joined TABB Group in 2014 as the Head of our Fixed Income Practice, with extensive subject matter expertise in fixed income trading, distribution, market structure, and technology across rates, credit, and OTC derivatives. His career includes roles as the Head of Credit and OTC Derivatives Trading for both Tradeweb Markets LLC and MarketAxess Corporation, in addition to trading and sales management positions with Barclays, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley in the United States and Asia. Since 2013, he has been an advisory board member for SenaHill Partners, a merchant bank serving the financial services technology sector. He is a graduate of Georgetown University.

With extensive experience reporting on structured credit, derivatives and fixed income markets in the US and Europe, Radi is now responsible for producing European Fixed Income research at TABB Group, based in London and working alongside the US team to produce research based on interviews with senior figures on the sell-side, buy-side and regulators defining market change. Radi also has six years of experience reporting on financial markets at Euromoney, Risk Magazine, Dow Jones and Bloomberg. His main area of focus has always been the OTC derivatives market and fixed income, and for the last two years has followed the impact of regulatory change on the running of this market to define the likely future shape of the market. He will be sharing his latest research on derivatives reforms to help you prepare for the impact on your trading desk.

Louis runs the investment management team at LNG, leading idea generation across credit markets. As CIO, Louis oversees investment and directs the organization’s investment management decisions. He has over 30 years investment experience with expertise in government bonds, investment-grade, high-yield, distressed, and special situations. As a result of his strong performance Louis and his team have been nominated for numerous awards and honourable mentions from Euro hedge, Investhedge, HFR, Hedge, and others. Besides his duties as CIO, Louis is active in the financial policy and reform debate as a frequent contributor to, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Reuters, Bloomberg, He regularly speaks at major industry conferences, as well as CNBC and Bloomberg television.

Chris has over 13 years experience in fixed income electronic business development and has pioneered several innovative market initiatives like the GSessions trading platform and corporate bond IOIs. Prior to founding ViableMkts, Chris has previously worked for MarketAxess, Barclays and Goldman Sachs. As the sell side environment shifts on the back of regulatory pressures, Chris will be providing insight into what form of sell side business model can prosper in new fixed income markets, and provide expertise on what you should look for when partnering with new sell side firms.

Rafah Hanna is one of the industry’s most respected leading experts on exchange market data policies and leveraging an entrepreneurial spirit to advise and benefit exchanges, information providers and market participants. As the Founder and Director at DataContent, Rafah is responsible for the full management of the global organisation with past and ongoing projects in Asia, Europe, South America, North America, and Middle East. Rafah’s experience across data management analytics includes major projects as global head previously at NYSE, strategic client projects in the arena of indices, middle and back office alongside regional studies the Middle East and Africa. Rafah will be providing expertise during his session on big data analytics, and giving you tips on how you can exploit innovation in big data analytics to make more informed trading decisions.

Paul Hamill is a Managing Director and Global Head of FICC at Citadel Securities. As such, he is responsible for the client facing fixed income market-making businesses, including interest rate swaps, government and corporate bonds, credit default swaps and cleared FX. Paul was previously a Managing Director and Global Head of FX, Rates and Credit Execution services at UBS, with responsibility for global futures execution, FXPB, and building the fixed income agency business which included the PIN (Price Improvement Network) corporate bond and CDS trading platform, and the Neo platform for SEF traded swaps. He has over 15 years of experience in financial services and has worked in London, Zurich, New York and Chicago, with experience across e-commerce, trading and sales.

Luca possesses over 20years in the bond institutional business with top American and European investment banks, including 8 years as non executive Director at MTS Spa and EuroMts Ltd Boards and 1.5years in the current rule at EuroTLX. In addition Luca has been a financial markets economics lecturer at University Cattolica of Piacenza (corso laurea magistrale) since 2010. During Luca’s panel, he will be collating all of his recent experience and outline what can define the success of the new fixed income platforms, including how you can solve the challenge of adapting to the evolution of credit trading on electronic platforms.

Liz Duggan is managing director, Global Evaluated Pricing Business Development for Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business. She has more than 20 years of experience in market data services, working with investment companies, investment advisors, broker/dealers and other financial institutions. Liz oversees key initiatives related to enhancing and expanding the Company’s evaluated pricing services, broadening overall market coverage and providing increased transparency to evaluation services. Liz joined Interactive Data in 1999 and has held several roles within the Company —most recently serving as Managing Director of Global Evaluated Pricing Operations.  Prior to joining the Company, Liz served as a senior vice president of Thomson Financial Securities Management. 

Alice runs the electronic credit trading platforms in New York and London for Lloyds Bank, where she is based in London. Prior to joining Lloyds Alice held the same role at RBC and her background has always been in eTrading having worked previously for both Tradeweb and MarketAxess. As balance sheet becomes increasingly constrained banks are turning to data and technology in order to enhance liquidity provision to their clients. New fintech companies will assist Lloyds in matching buyers and sellers, reducing pressure on balance sheets and enabling Sales to have more targeted conversations with clients. Data is also levelling the playing field amongst banks, providing information on liquidity which wouldn’t previously have been available and helping guide participants towards areas of the market which are most active. Alice will be providing expertise on how the sell side can offer value in increasingly complex fixed income markets.

Philippe Buhannic, CEO and co-founder of TradingScreen, is an industry pioneer. Buhannic has stayed on the forefront of global markets and financial technology for more than 30 years, in a career that has spanned executive management, technical, and marketing experience in international markets. Buhannic founded TradingScreen with Joseph Ahearn in 1999, working to connect global sell-side participants and leading regional brokers to a common environment. TradingScreen was ahead of the curve from day one – delivering market access, and order and liquidity management to the buy side – anticipating the shift away from paper-based trading towards digital markets. Today, TradingScreen is not only the world’s leading execution management system (EMS), it is also the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading and investment technology via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to the financial community.

Gareth Coltman joined MarketAxess in 2014 as Head of European Product Management and is responsible for the strategy, development and enhancement of MarketAxess’ European trading platform. Mr. Coltman was most recently Head of Product Management with Algomi, where he helped drive the firm’s product strategy in conjunction with both buy- and sell-side clients. Prior to this, Mr. Coltman was with ICAP from 2007 to 2012 where he held various roles including COO of BlockCross and Business Manager for European Credit. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Coltman was with Reuters, most recently managing the development of the firm’s electronic trading data products.

Gherardo Lenti Capoduri is Head of Banca IMI’s Market Hub. He started his career in Financial Control, before moving into Trading at Citigroup. Here he gained extensive experience of both trading and quantitative research, and from 1999 became heavily involved in trading platforms and specializes in online trading, electronic trading platform, and institutional investors sales in both brokerage & execution. Gherardo is board member of ASSIOM FOREX and holds a degree in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University in Milan.

Simon Linwood joined MTS in 2012 and is responsible for European credit trading across all MTS markets and is also the head of MTS Data.  Based in London, Simon is responsible for revenue, product development and strategy for MTS Credit and MTS Data. Simon has over 16 years experience in capital markets and financial services having started his career at JP Morgan in 1998 on the London repo desk and then moving to Credit Suisse where he worked on the Debt Capital Markets Syndicate desk for Supranational, Sovereign and Agency new issues.  More recently, Simon was a one of the first employees at CapitalStructure, a start-up newswire company covering the European High Yield and Leveraged Loan markets.

Urs Widmer has been a member of the Management Committee of SIX Swiss Exchange since December 2012. He is responsible for the area of Business & Market Development. In this function, he is in charge of Business Engineering and Issuer Relations, as well as the departments Market Structure, Corporate Development & Strategy and the Project Portfolio Management. Before joining SIX Swiss Exchange, Urs Widmer had been a member of the Executive Board at AXA Winterthur since 2007 and CEO of AXA Bank in Switzerland, where he was responsible for developing, managing, selling and closing AXA Bank. During his over five years at UBS, he was responsible for the Financial Planning Life Insurance Sales department and before that, the Products & Services for Financial Intermediaries area. After completing his studies, Urs Widmer began his professional career at McKinsey & Company, where he spent four years working on and leading a number of national and international projects in the area of Financial Services and Transportation. He has a university degree in Business Management and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.

Simon Maisey joined Tradeweb as a managing director in May 2014 and is responsible for international finance and business operations, and for helping to grow the firm in Europe and Asia. During his career, Simon has gained extensive knowledge and experience of market structure, regulatory matters and electronic trading in the fixed income and derivatives markets. Prior to Tradeweb, Simon had worked at J.P. Morgan since 1998, most recently in the position of managing director, eCommerce business head within the global rates department. He has also held roles as COO and CFO of its fixed income businesses.

Mr. Winter joined BGC Partners - Powered by FENICS in Q1 of 2015 to build and lead it's Global Sales team. He is responsible for bringing the market's need for transparent pricing and seamless execution to BGC Partner's global, multi-channel pools of liquidity as accessed via FENICS, the engine which powers that liquidity.

Prior to joining BGCP, he was most recently the Global Head of Hedge Fund Sales and Client Development at the CME Group where he oversaw their successful entry into the cleared interest rate swap market for the Buyside. He also spearheaded internationalization at the exchange, significantly growing their client-facing presence in London, Hong Kong and Singapore.  During his tenure at the CME, the exchange significantly grew it's percentage of electronically executed contracts as he focused on technology and the evolving demand for robust connectivity across platforms and technologically savvy market participants.

During his 25-year career in Finance, Mr. Winter has also held management and front office positions at Merrill Lynch, D. E. Shaw & Co., and KBC Financial Products.

Enrico Bruni is Managing Director, the head of Europe and Asia businesses at Tradeweb, and a member of Tradeweb’s executive committee. Mr. Bruni joined Tradeweb in 2002 and has been instrumental in developing the interest rate swaps business in Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Tradeweb, Mr. Bruni was at J.P. Morgan where he worked on a number of business and product management roles across the markets division, with particular focus on their e-trading strategy. He has worked in J.P. Morgan's London, New York and Milan offices. Mr. Bruni holds a business management degree from L. Bocconi University, Milan.

As Senior Managing Director and Global Head of BGC Partners’ Client & Regulatory Liaison, Mr. Hogan is responsible for ongoing dialogue with governmental and regulatory bodies globally as well as relationship management with clients and strategic corporate projects.  Based in London, Mr Hogan has engaged in sales, product development and strategic issues within BGC since its inception in 2004.

Prior to his role with BGC, Mr. Hogan spent nineteen years at Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed Inc. in New York and London.  During this period he managed several derivative and cash brokerage units and was Managing Director of eCommerce at Cantor Fitzgerald.  In addition, Mr Hogan was involved in sales, product development and merger & acquisition activity at eSpeed.  Before joining Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed, Mr. Hogan traded government bonds for four years at Bankers Trust Company in New York and for five years at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in London. 

Gavin is responsible for Bloomberg sales in FICC electronic trading and workflow solutions on a Global basis. This role involves responsibility for teams covering both the sellside and buyside. Gavin previously ran Bloomberg's position keeping and Trade Order Management (TOMS) business in EMEA, and Gavin has a strong background in Eurobond Trading.

Matthew Miller joined Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in 2010 as a Global Business Manager for the Fixed Income Credit Platform. Matthew has 16 years previous experience in various Fixed Income Credit Trading and Management roles in New York, Milan and London. He represents Societe Generale for a number of Industry Groups and Committees such as AFME and ISDA as well as ongoing eCommerce related cooperative initiatives.

Hirander Misra is  CEO & Co-Founder of GMEX Group, which encompasses GMEX Exchange, which operates a trading venue for the trading of innovative Interest Rate Swap Constant Maturity Futures contracts (IRS CMF). Hirander is also co-founder and Chairman of trading technology firm Forum Trading Solutions. Previously he was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Chi-X Europe Limited, instrumental in taking the company from concept to successful launch. At the time of his departure in February 2010, Chi-X Europe was the second largest equities trading venue in Europe, just behind the LSE Group and was subsequently sold to Bats Global Markets in November 2011 for $365mn.

With over 15 years’ experience working within financial institutions in London, NY and across Asia, Grant has built up extensive business and technical expertise across operations and trading and in particular electronic trading, clearing and market structure change and the technology that underpins this. Grant’s background combines deep product knowledge across FICC and FX with strong business, programme management and stakeholder management. Grant has extensive experience in market structure change and understanding the impact and opportunities that the regulation will bring to the market.

Mark Russell is in his 17th year with UBS, having previously held roles in Equities, Fixed Income Origination and Portfolio Management. Currently, Mark is the global head of Bond Execution Services for UBS, heading up their platform offering, UBS Bond Port. During his keynote panel, Mark will be providing the sell side view on how the top of the industry are adapting their operations to prosper in new fixed income markets.

Join Doug Spence as he discusses how to get the most out of your conference experience. Doug is a guru on networking and relationship management, whose services are sought after by major corporations around the world and also some of the biggest names in sport to help them manage their sponsorship obligations. This includes the biggest names in soccer including David Beckham, Tennis, Ryder Cup Golf and Formula 1 Grand Prix. “Style Flexibility” is the secret to optimizing relationships and effective networking soft skills that deliver hard results—ignore them at your peril!

Stu is co-founder and CEO of Algomi. He was previously the Global Head of Matched Principal Trading at UBS, where he launched UBS PIN–FI – the first internaliser model in Fixed Income at a global investment bank, covering bonds and CDS. Prior to this, he held various senior roles in Fixed Income both at UBS and Merrill Lynch. Stu sits on the board of Baymarkets, the OTC trading system vendor.  He served as a board member of Tradeweb. Stu was named as one of the 40 most influential individuals in Fintech 2014 by the Wall Street Journal eFinancial News. 

Mr Tsai Li Renn is Senior Vice President and Head, Fixed Income Trading at Singapore Exchange (SGX). He is responsible for executing and running our Fixed Income Trading Venue.
Mr Tsai started his career in 1993 in New York and has experience running a wide range of businesses ranging from banking / origination, structuring, trading & syndication, risk management to asset management. Mr. Tsai joined SGX in July 2013.
Prior to joining SGX, Mr Tsai served as Senior Vice President of Debt Capital Markets at DBS Bank from 2011-2013. He joined from DBS Asset Management where he was Fixed Income Investment Director and a member of the Management Committee. Prior to DBS Asset Management, Mr Tsai was most recently Managing Director and Head of Structured Solutions at UBS.

Alfred Eskandar is a proven business leader and technology entrepreneur who has dedicated nearly 20 years to introducing new levels of innovation and customer value to the global capital markets community. As CEO of Portware, Eskandar has passionately worked to fundamentally change the trading technology landscape. Appointed CEO in 2012, Eskandar recognized the pervasive need for decision support tools that would help advance a collaborative environment between portfolio managers and traders. Months later he spearheaded the acquisition of the technology assets of Aritas group to create Portware Alpha Vision, the first and only algorithmic optimization solution that uses quantitative predictive analytics and machine learning to continuously optimize algorithm selection. By injecting artificial intelligence and commission optimization tools into the trading process for the first time, Portware has created a new type of multi-asset, thinking EMS that can bring measurable efficiencies and workflow automation to global trading desks trading across asset classes--equities, fixed income, FX, futures, options, and more--giving traders and portfolio managers the highest level of real-time color, TCA, and execution capabilities on their orders.

Enrico Melchioni is Manging Director of LIST UK, a subsidiary of LIST, a company that designs and develops software solutions for multi asset, multi market electronic trading and brokerage. Enrico has been involved in a number of projects that use LIST technology to implement innovative electronic trading business logics for Fixed Income, Equity and Derivatives. Before joining LIST, Enrico founded FMR Consulting, a software company dedicated to the development of quantitative solutions for Finance. In 2012 FMR was merged in LIST where Enrico continues his activity as quantitative Finance expert. In LIST, Enrico also heads Quant Lab a joint research laboratory with the econo-physicist of the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) established to carry out market microstructure analysis.

Oscar is Head of Trading at NN Investment Partners responsible for Fixed Income, Equity Derivative and FX trading. The nine traders are mostly based in The Hague, with traders in New York and Singapore ensuring global coverage. Previously Oscar was fund manager at NN IP, specializing in derivative focused investment strategies. Oscar started his 19 year old career as proprietary trader in FX and interest rate derivatives at NN IP (formerly known as ING Investment Management). Oscar will be sharing his thoughts on the selection of new trading venues on the panel of Platform Selection Day. Oscar holds an MSc in Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Before joining Algomi as Chairman, Michael's background includes a 14 year career at Deutsche Bank and 10 years at UBS, always heading Fixed Income Trading and Sales teams regionally and globally. His last positions at UBS were Co-Head of European Credit Trading, Global Head of UBS FI Retail Trading and member of the IB board of UBS Switzerland. Under his leadership, his teams pioneered a number of market leading electronic trading platforms including DB Autobahn, UBS Wealth Management/Investment Bank Connectivity Hub in addition to introducing the first algorithmic pricing tools in Corporate Bonds.

Head of Nomura’s Regulatory Response Taskforce, and responsible for leading Nomura's Market Structure strategy across all asset classes, encompassing interactions with industry groups and regulators and working with the internal trading teams to position the business to adapt and thrive in the future regulatory landscape. 

A core part of the role is the structural changes that MiFID II will drive, and responsibility for setting up the Global Markets businesses for those changes Previously Head of Business Operations & Risk at Instinet Europe Ltd, a Nomura company. Responsible for Operations, Technology, Product, and Risk, and for managing the migration of Nomura's equity execution franchise to Instinet. Before that responsible for the Equities Electronic Trading business at Nomura, offering extensive algorithmic trading and smart order routing capabilities, including the leading high frequency trading brokerage service. Responsible for the product development of client trading solutions, including managing the creation and operation of NX MTF, the first investment bank based dark MTF, and also the Nomura SI.

Current member of the Risk Committee of European Central Counterparty NV (EuroCCP NV). Previously Non Executive Director at European Central Counterparty Limited (EuroCCP Ltd) and a member of the Board Risk Committee. A member (2010-2012) of the High Level Stakeholder Group of the "Foresight: The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets"​ government review sponsored by HMT; Chaired by Mark Hoban MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and managed by Sir John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Advisor. 

Having joined Nomura from Lehman Brothers following the business acquisition in 2008, career covering 27 years in financial markets includes 4 years at Lehman, and 7 years at Dresdner Kleinwort as head of the firm's institutional connectivity and order management activity.