Benjamin joined AXA IM in 2021 as Head of Electronic Trading & Data where he was responsible for the Multi-Asset Low Touch execution as well as for the automation projects and transversal coordination of data related topics for trading. In March 2024, he was appointed Head of High Touch Execution leading the Equity and Fixed Income asset classes globally. Prior to joining AXA IM, Benjamin...
France Trading Conference 2024 Speakers
Thursday 21st November
Speakers
David Angel, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Continental Europe, Virtu Financial David Angel, Co-Chair France Subcommitee, FIX Trading Community, Managing Director, Head of European Business Development, drives the growth of Virtu’s new Business across all products and services in Europe, including the relationship management of Virtu’s customer base. David also heads-up Virtu’s Paris Branch and RFQ-hub business. Prior to joining Virtu, David...
Eglantine Desautel, CEO, EuroCTP Eglantine Desautel is the current Chief Executive Officer at EuroCTP. She has more than 20 years of experience in business transformation with a focus on financial services. Prior to joining EuroCTP, Eglantine spent twelve years at Euronext, a leading pan-European stock exchange and market infrastructure, where she held several positions of responsibility. Most notably, Eglantine was Chief of Staff to the...
Emilie Rieupeyroux is Head of Market Strategy for Cash Equity and Data Services at Euronext. Previously, she was Euronext’s Head of Innovation and was CEO of the post-trade distributed ledger technology start-up LiquidShare, co-founded by AFS Group, BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, OFI AM and Société Générale. Before that, Emilie managed Euronext’s electronic liquidity provision programmes on equities and positioning on market...
Eric Heleine, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Buy-Side Trading Desk & Overlay Management, Groupama Asset Management
Franck Noel is a financial markets professional with over 25 years of experience in operational management of trading, support or project teams. Franck was most recently Head of Market Structure & Strategy at AXA IM and has been working at AXA IM for 7 years, and before this, for 18 years, he held various position with Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking in Paris or in...
Gavin Byrne, Co-Head of Listed Derivatives Sales Trading, Continental Europe, BNP Paribas Gavin graduated from University College Dublin and spent the first part of his career working in Frankfurt and London before moving to Paris post Brexit. His background was primarily equity derivatives sales and sales trading but since moving to Paris his role is now focused on multi asset listed derivative sales trading both...
Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director and Global Technical Committee Co-Chair, FIX Trading Community, Founder and Senior Standards Advisor, FIXdom Hanno Klein works as an independent consultant specialised in the standardisation of electronic interfaces and is the founder of FIXdom – “The Wisdom of FIX” in Germany (April 2019). Previously, he has worked for more than 20 years at Deutsche Börse Group that provides the technology for...
Jim Kaye, Executive Director, FIX Trading Community Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.
Laetitia Visconti, Head of EMEA Equities Market Structure & Market Connectivity, Barclays Laetitia has more than 15 years’ experience in managing market structure and regulatory changes with a focus on Equities Execution and Prime Services. She joined Barclays in 2010 as a front office product manager, working on various key EMEA structural changes impacting execution services. In 2018, she became Head of EMEA Equities Market...
Laurent Clavel, Global Head of Multi-Asset, AXA IM Laurent has been leading AXA IM’s Multi-Asset & Quant Solution since 2022, a team managing ca. 30bn€ of assets. Laurent joined AXA IM in 2015 as International Economist and then became Head of Macroeconomic Research in 2016, then Head of Research early 2019. In October 2019, Laurent was appointed AXA IM’s Head of Quant Lab, a team set...
Laurent Libiszewski, Head of Clearing & Settlement Products, Sell Side Custody & Debt Solution, BNP Paribas Laurent Libiszewski took on the role of Global Head of Clearing & Settlement Products, Sell-Side Custody & Debt Solutions in September 2022. He is based in Paris and is responsible for driving the global product development strategy across Cash Equity Clearing, Local Custody, Global Settlement, and the Issuer services...
Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Director. He advises the Markets division on future regulatory change, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of regulatory change, and engages with politicians, trade associations, regulatory bodies and clients to make sure this is articulated effectively. Matthew was Director of Regulation and Market Structure EMEA at Nice Actimize...
Senior execution trader in Société Générale Luxembourg.
Melissa Ellis, Head of Workflow Technology, EMEA, Virtu Financial Based in London, Melissa Ellis serves as the EMEA Head of Virtu Financial’s Workflow Technology business and oversees the firm’s client-focused Workflow Technology sales and product development with its flagship product being Triton Execution Management System (EMS).. Triton, Virtu’s award-winning EMS, is a global, broker-neutral, multi-asset-class platform that combines Virtu’s cutting-edge liquidity, execution, analytics and workflow...
Philippe Guillot, Managing Director, Markets Directorate, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) Philippe Guillot, Managing Director, took responsibility of the Data and Markets Directorate at the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) in December 2020. The Data and Markets Directorate supervises markets, monitors market infrastructure and stakeholders, and data usage. Since joining the AMF in March 2012 as Executive Director, in charge of Markets, Philippe has played a leading...
Pierre Davoust is Head of Central Securities Depositories for Euronext since 2020 and Member of the Executive Committee at Euronext. Pierre is also Chairman of the Board of Euronext CSDs (Porto, Oslo, Milan and Copenhagen). He joined Euronext in 2019 as Head of Business Development. Before joining Euronext, Pierre was Head of Markets at SETL, a UK-based distributed ledger company focusing on financial services, Chief...
Raoul Salomon is a Managing Director at Barclays; he is the France CEO and the Co-Head of Markets for Barclays Europe. Mr. Salomon was appointed as Managing Director in January 2006 after joining Barclays Capital in February 1996 from Caisse des Depots et Consignation where he was an economist in charge of the French economy and a trader on STRIPS. Prior to Caisse des Depots...
Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Founder, Redlap Consulting Rebecca is considered to be a leading industry voice on market structure, regulatory reform, and financial services technology. Writing research over the last decade, Rebecca has authored a plethora of qualitative reports and commentaries covering the impact of market regulation on all asset classes, the impact of the rise...
Robert Miller, Head of Market Structure & Liquidity Solutions, Kepler Cheuvreux
Sacha Fellica, Executive Director – Digital Markets Products – Head of EMEA Digital Macro Sales Products, J.P. Morgan Sacha Fellica is the head of the EMEA Digital Macro Sales products with also a global responsibility for the delivery of digital Rates Derivatives solutions and for all the APAC digital FICC sales products suite, he is based in London. He is responsible for the delivery of...
Sassan Danesh, CEO, Etrading Software Ltd. Sassan Danesh has 20 years’ experience assisting capital markets institutions to grow their OTC market franchise by optimising the business performance of their technology offerings. Sassan’s more recent focus is on the role of technology in addressing industry-wide issues. Passionate about the benefits of industry collaboration in providing technology solutions that optimise inefficiencies in market structure, Sassan is leading ETS’s...
Stéphane Giordano, Chairman, AMAFI, Deputy Head of Public Affairs, Société Générale Stéphane Giordano joined SG Public Affairs team in late 2013. He is currently deputy head of the department, responsible for Wholesale and Financial Markets Activities. Stephane has been elected as chairman of AMAFI’s (the representative body for professionals working in the securities industry and financial markets in France) board in October 2014. He also...
Stéphane Malrait, Chairman, ACI Financial Market Association (ACI FMA), Managing Director and Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets, ING Bank Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry....
Vincent Grandjean, Founder & CEO, Propellant Digital Vincent is the founder of Propellant.digital, a fintech that organises publicly available markets data along with clients’ internal proprietary data to empower advanced analytics and provide critical business insights. He has extensive front-to-back experience in electronic trading through his positions in Front Office eCommerce and in Information Technology. He played a key role defining Fixed Income market structure...
Xavier Hoche is a financial markets professional with over 25 years of experience in operational management of trading teams. He served as Chief Operating Officer at AXA Investment Managers from 2010 to 2024, where he coordinated global trading operations across multiple asset classes, including fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, derivatives and securities financing. Xavier played a key role in implementing electronic trading platforms and auto-trading,...
Yannig Loyer, Global Head of Markets & Liquidity Solutions, AXA Investment Managers Yannig Loyer was appointed Global Head of Markets & Liquidity Solutions, overseeing the execution and Solutions Portfolio Management functions of AXA Investment Managers in 2023. He joined AXA IM in October 2018 as Global Head of Trading, in charge of the execution teams for flow products before being promoted in 2020 to look...
Further speakers to be announced