Alex Ings, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Equities Fixed Trading Community, Executive Director, Execution Services, Client Access Product Manager, UBS Alex Ings is part of the Execution Services Product team at UBS, based in London. As Client Access Product Manager, Alex owns the global, cross-asset client interface for Execution Services, and is responsible for improving clients’ experience of the execution stack. Alex is an...
EMEA Trading Conference 2026 Speakers
Thursday 5th March
Speakers
Andy Simpson, CEO at Sigma Financial, Founder and CEO of real time research & analytics firm, Sigma AI, which provides advanced ML and Gen AI based insights, Andrew has been leading market structure change in financial services for more than 25 years. He has delivered strategic change and business growth for banks, markets infrastructure and the UKs regulator. Amongst his roles he was COO at disruptor exchange...
Angela Lobo, European Head of E Sales & Sales COO, Jefferies Angela Lobo is the European Head of E Sales & Sales COO at Jefferies. She formerly served as head of Esales & Algo Strategy at Morgan Stanley where she worked for 14 years. She has over 25 years of experience in Fixed income eTrading and has specialized in devising Client & Product strategy around...
Bruce Bland, Head of Electronic Trading Products, ION Group Bruce is Head of Electronic Trading Products at ION Group, bringing more than 28 years of software development experience across algorithmic trading, user interface design, real-time data analytics, data science and AI development. With deep, hands-on trading floor experience spanning both high-touch and low-touch execution, he focuses on translating real-world workflow needs into product innovation—delivering practical,...
Byron Cooper-Fogarty, Global Head, Neptune Networks Ltd. Byron started in Fixed Income sales covering asset managers and other buy-side accounts with Royal Bank of Canada and ran Bond sales teams at Commonwealth Bank before moving to the UK and working in asset management with Gartmore (now part of Janus Henderson). From there he moved into the eTrading arena with MTS (now part of the LSE)...
Christoph Hock, Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets (PM), Union Investment Christoph Hock hat zum 1. Januar 2024 die neue Funktion des Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets (PM) bei Union Investment übernommen. In der Branche gilt er als bekannter Fürsprecher der Blockchain-Technologie sowie der Tokenisierung von Vermögenswerten. Christoph hat die Entwicklung dieses Themenfelds innerhalb von Union Investment bereits in der Vergangenheit maßgeblich mitgestaltet. In...
Daniel Riches, Head of Equities Dealing, M&G Daniel Riches joined M&G Investments as an Equities Dealer in 2001 after 6 years at JP Morgan Asset Management. Daniel assumed Head of the Equities Dealing Desk in 2011 and oversees 12 individuals across dealing and dealing support based in London and Singapore.
David Cámara Iniesta, Managing Director, Senior Trading Strategist, Bank of America David is in charge of defining and executing FICC e-trading and market structure strategy for BofA in EMEA. He works closely with trading, technology and legal to anticipate industry changes and maximize liquidity provision for Global Markets’ clients. He joined BofA after 12 years at GS, where he performed roles in sales, e-trading and...
Deniz Mace-Jones serves as the Global Head of Rates & Credit Product and Electronic Distribution at UBS Deniz is bringing over 15 years of expertise in Fixed Income markets amid an era of rapid electronic transformation. With a deep understanding of evolving trading protocols and dynamic market structures, Deniz plays a pivotal role in shaping the future strategy for Rates & Credit at UBS, alongside...
Dr Robert Barnes, Strategic Advisor Dr Robert Barnes, Chartered FCSI(Hon), is an exchange expert of 32 years in financial markets, serving as CEO of successful trading venues, Turquoise (2013-2022 – awarded Outstanding Equities Trading Venue 2021) & UBS MTF (2010-2013, while at UBS 1994-2013) and Co-CEO BPX (2023-2025) achieving FCA authorisation in 2025. Chairman (2004-2009) of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association,...
Elena Trimcheska, Head of Education, ACI Financial Markets Association Elena Trimcheska is the Head of Education at ACI Financial Markets Association (ACI FMA), appointed after more than a decade of dedicated involvement with the Association’s values and educational mission. She leads ACI FMA’s global educational initiatives with a strong focus on syllabus development, quality assurance, and stakeholder engagement. With over 20 years of experience in...
Emma Lokko, Head of Market Structure, Susquehanna in Europe, Emma Lokko is the Head of Market Structure for Susquehanna in Europe, a leading global market making firm with its European headquarters in Ireland. She is responsible for advocating for market structural change in EU financial markets and has over 30 years of experience in global financial markets having worked across all areas of the trading...
Eric Boess, Global Head of Trading, Allianz Global Investors Eric is responsible for trading across all asset classes at Allianz Global Investors GmbH. He has more than 25 years asset management industry experience, having joined Dresdner Bank in 1992. Starting in 1996 he traded equity, fixed income and commodity derivatives for Deutscher Investment Trust. In the following years he co-managed various guaranteed, and structured funds,...
Hanane Dupouy, Director, Algorithmic Trader, an experienced finance professional, technologist and passionate about Generative AI, LLMs, AI Agents, RAG etc. Hanane has an engineering degree and a specialised master’s degree in finance from French business schools. Hanane managed a team of data scientists and business intelligence professionals in a French bank. Later, Hanane transitioned into algorithmic trading in the equity department, designing and implementing strategies...
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...
Huw Grunow is Head of Dealing at Newton, overseeing all trading for the UK based firm across all asset classes. He joined Newton in October 2016. Prior to that he was Head of Trading, Europe and Asia at Principal Asset Management, with trading roles at Blackrock and TT International Investment Management before that. Huw co-chairs the EMEA Investment Management Working Group for FIX Trading Community,...
Jack Hill, Equity Sales Manager at Euronext in London, covering sell-side and ISV client engagement across the UK & Ireland. Prior to joining Euronext in 2023, he worked in execution sales for the wealth management division at Credit Suisse. Jack is also Co-Chair of the FIX NextGeneration Steering Committee.
Jamie Whitehorn, Head of Trading Venues, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Jamie leads the Trading Venues & Corporate Finance Firms Department within the FCA’s Infrastructure & Exchanges Directorate. Jamie is responsible for supervising UK trading venues and developing the policy framework within which they operate. He joined the regulator in 2010, having served in a variety of regulatory and compliance roles at trading venues.
Jeremy Bruce, Head of Trading, Bernstein Jeremy runs Trading for Bernstein in EMEA. Jeremy has 20 years of experience in the industry. Before joining Societe Generale Jeremy spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley in Electronic Trading, was a board member and head of European Sales for Bank of New York ConvergEx, spent 3 years at Nomura as head of European Electronic Trading Sales, and also...
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.
Jon Jenkins, Founder of VOCSET Jon is the founder of VOCSET, a startup specialising in Voice Automation and AI for the Commodity sector. He has also consulted on trading architecture and transformation at Cargill, Julius Baer, Invesco amongst others. Jon was part of the founding team at TradingScreen (now TSI) in the early 2000’s where he built one of the industry’s first multi-asset FIX gateways...
JONNY HUNTINGTON | Para-Athlete and Boundary Breaking Explorer Jonny is an elite endurance athlete, explorer, stroke survivor and motivational figure who, in January 2025, became the first person with a disability to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole. While serving as an officer in the British Army in 2014, Jonny had a stroke that caused complete paralysis from the neck down on his...
Laetitia Visconti, Head of Market Structure, Aquis Exchange Laetitia Visconti has over 20 years’ experience in equities execution, financial services advocacy, and regulatory change management. She joined Aquis Exchange in February 2025 as Head of Market Structure, where she leads the firm’s advocacy and regulatory agenda, and contributes actively to the product innovation and strategy for the firm’s pan-European MTF. Before joining Aquis, Laetitia spent...
Laurie McAughtry, Head of Capital Markets, Euromoney Laurie McAughtry is Head of Capital Markets at Euromoney, responsible for DCM, ECM, M&A and FX strategy across both primary and secondary markets. She joined from global publishing firm Markets Media as Managing Editor of Global Trading, where she oversaw the transformation and consolidation of the firm’s multiple equities titles into a single market-leading platform. She is a vocal...
Marc Berthoud, Head Exchange Data Strategy, SIX Swiss Exchange Marc currently serves as Head Exchange Data Strategy for SIX, one of the leading securities market operators in Europe. Securing high quality data is a central focus area of Marc’s portfolio. Marc drove the modernization of SIX Swiss Exchange market data dissemination infrastructure, improving latency, scalability, timestamping accuracy as well as data content. He recently completed...
Mark Kepeneghian, Founder and CEO of Lise As Founder and CEO of Lise, Mark Kepeneghian is dedicated to modernizing market infrastructures in Europe. Through Lise, he is developing a unified infrastructure integrating both trading (MTF) and settlement (CSD) functions. This project aims to create the first natively tokenized stock exchange, operating 24/7, with the goal of simplifying access to financing for SMEs and mid-caps through...
Martijn Rookhuijzen, Senior Supervisor Capital Market Infrastructure department, Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) Martijn joined the AFM in 2024 after serving a decade in public administration as policy officer in financial markets regulation. Between 2020 and 2024 he was seconded at the European Commission where he worked on the MiFIR review. At the AFM Martijn continues to contribute to the development of financial instruments market structure,...
Matt Bumstead, Product Manager, Content Acquisition, Platforms & Market Data Model, Bloomberg L.P. Matt is a founding member (2011) and Co-Chair of the FIX Market Model Typology (MMT) Technical Committee, a standard for efficiently and consistently describing transactions (“trades”) across European markets and trade reporting services. Matt works in the Platforms & Market Data Model team at Bloomberg, with a predominant focus on the market...
Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community & head of Fixed Income sales and product EMEA for Susquehanna Matthew Coupe is head of Fixed Income sales and product EMEA for Susquehanna, he was formally global head of cross asset market structure, based in London. He advises on the future market structure, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of market...
Mike Poole, Head of Trading, Jupiter Asset Management Mike is the Head of Trading at Jupiter Asset Management, having joined the company in 2005. Previously, Mike managed the Fixed Income trading team for six years, having originally spent over ten years trading equities, bonds, FX and derivatives across Jupiter’s range of funds. An active member of numerous industry bodies, including the Investment Association, Mike is...
Mike Roffey is Head of European Credit at Tradeweb, overseeing wholesale activity across Developed and Emerging Markets Credit bonds. In his role, Mike works closely with both buy- and sell-side clients to deepen engagement, enhance execution outcomes, and support the continued evolution of electronic credit trading. He also leads the evolution and adoption strategy of Portfolio Trading (PT) and Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) across Developed...
Natasha Benson, COO, CFO, Ownera Natasha Benson is a recognized leader in the financial services industry with over 25 years of experience, particularly in the emerging fields of Tokenization and Digital Markets. She is currently COO/CFO of Ownera, a company at the forefront of building interconnected infrastructure for tokenized solutions. Before Ownera, Natasha founded and led several successful ventures. She was the CEO of...
Nick Idelson, Co-Chair Algo Trading Working Group, FIX Trading Community, Technical Director, TraderServe Nick, co-chair of the FIX Algo Trading WG, has over 30 years expertise in algo trading, including founding and managing teams for major banks and hedge funds as well as pioneering distributed algo trading and execution environments. Closely involved with trading regulation since 2003 including MiFID & MAR, Nick is Technical director...
Patrice Aguesse, Head of the Market Regulation Division, Regulatory Policy & International Affairs Department At Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) He represents the AMF at the Market Standing Committee of ESMA which encompasses financial markets and post-markets topics. After a year at Banque Hervet, he joined the trading room at Sovac Bank in January 1992, where he was actively involved in the bank’s refinancing and...
Peter Hafez, Chief Data Scientist at RavenPack Peter is Chief Data Scientist and member of the Executive team at RavenPack, where he has been at the forefront of applied news analytics since 2008. With more than 20 years of expertise in quantitative finance, he has worked with leading financial institutions such as Standard & Poor’s and Credit Suisse. In 2024, Peter played a pivotal role...
Petros Kyliakoudis, Lead Trading Research and Analytics, Baillie Gofford Petros Kyliakoudis leads Trading Research and Analytics at Baillie Gifford, where he is responsible for advancing execution analytics, data governance, and evidence-based decision frameworks across global trading activities. His work focuses on transforming trading analytics into a strategic, institutional capability through rigorous data quality, automation, and applied research. He is actively engaged in industry collaboration and...
Ramin Nakisa, Founder at PensionCraft Ramin is the founder of PensionCraft, an investment education platform dedicated to helping retail investors navigate global markets with institutional-grade rigour. Ramin’s unique perspective is built on a dual foundation: a career beginning in education followed by twelve years at a major investment bank, where he was a strategist in cross-asset allocation and macroeconomics. He is the author of A...
Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee, 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 of fintech in capital...
Ricardo Goddard, Head of Credit Trading Europe – Fixed Income, Schroders Head of European Credit Trading. 12 years buy side experience, 13 years on the sell side trading European credit, cash and cds.
Rich McDonald, Chief Markets Commentator, The Art Of Investing. Rich McDonald brings over two decades of trading and fund management experience and a passion for financial education. He is now the host of the UK’s top financial podcast, The Art Of Investing. Breaking down the latest news and strategies for traders and investors, Rich is known for his ability to simplify complex market concepts into...
Roland Chai, EVP & President European Market Services, Nasdaq Roland Chai is EVP and President of European Market Services, responsible for Nasdaq’s multi-asset trading, clearing, listings, and market services businesses across Europe, including Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania stock exchanges. Prior to leading European Market Services, Roland was the head of Nasdaq’s Marketplace Technology business, which comprises purpose-built products to meet the...
Ruchi Gawri, Head of European Rates Electronic Sales, Product, and Market Structure Strategy at Morgan Stanley Ruchi Gawri is responsible for EMEA Rates sales, product development, and Market Structure at Morgan Stanley. During 17 years of her career in the financial industry, she worked in Fixed income research, Macro Structuring, and cross-asset hedge fund sales, before transitioning to the world of Fixed income Electronic Trading...
Rugi Gahramanli, Senior Business Development Manager, Equities Trading, LSEG Rugi has over nine years of experience in financial markets, with a strong focus on equities trading and client coverage. Since joining the London Stock Exchange Group’s Equities Trading team in 2021, she has managed relationships with leading global banks and brokers across the LSE and Turquoise trading venues, specialising in cash equities, algo trading and...
Sam Knight, Director of Global E-Trading, Fidelity Sam Knight heads Fidelity Internationals electronic trading efforts, overseeing the development of a proprietary cross-asset trading engine that handles low touch order identification and execution. Having studied computer science he is also responsible for an in-house pre-trade analytics platform that brings together different data sources and assists traders with real time insight and execution strategies.
Samuel Livingstone, CFA, Founder & Managing Director at Signal & Craft Sam has held a number of senior buy-side roles, most recently as Head of Quantitative Strategies and Risk at Ambienta, and Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Jupiter Asset Management. Previously, he was a data scientist in Global Equities (now International Equities) at Citadel. He has also worked as a quant researcher...
Shreya Vaidyanathan, Product Lead for Alternative Data Feeds, Bloomberg Shreya is Product Lead for Alternative Data Feeds at Bloomberg, where she oversees the strategy and development of alternative data products, including Second Measure, serving institutional investors globally. She focuses on transforming unstructured and emerging data into structured, investable insights for trading and research workflows. Shreya holds master’s degrees in Computer Science and Journalism from Columbia...
Simon Dove, Managing Director and Head of Liquidity – EMEA, Instinet Simon Dove joined Instinet in December 2020. In his role as Head of Liquidity for the EMEA region, he is responsible for the firm’s European liquidity strategy, which includes supervision of Instinet’s BlockMatch MTF, as well as, the firm’s market-leading liquidity aggregation strategy. Simon ensures that Instinet successfully anticipates changes in the liquidity landscape and...
Simon Forster, Global Co-Head of Digital Assets, TP ICAP Simon Forster is the Global Co-Head of Digital Assets at TP ICAP where he is responsible for setting the firms cryptoasset and tokenisation strategy and managing the portfolio of solutions launched within the Digital Assets business. TP ICAP Digital Assets provides broking services to global clients across cryptoasset derivative products and offers spot trading through an...
Simon Gallagher, CEO of Euronext London, Head of Global Sales at Euronext Previous experiences: Head of Cash and Derivatives, Euronext Simon Gallagher is the CEO of Euronext London, Head of Global Sales and member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V. Before his appointment to the Managing Board, he was Euronext’s Head of Cash and Derivatives with overall P&L responsibility for these activities, including the...
Simon Penn, Executive Director, head of Knowledge Network EMEA, UBS Advisory sales within Knowledge Network, covering large institutional multi-asset accounts, macro hedge funds, Global Family Institutional Wealth, and a number of corporate and bank treasury clients. Delivering macro-orientated themes and trade ideas across global markets. Commentary ranges from high-frequency intra-day narrative, through to longer colour prices under the “Thoughts From The Floor” banner. I also...
Stephen Morrow, COO at Options IT Stephen Morrow is Options’ COO and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s key strategic accounts and global operations. Stephen was previously Vice President of the Exchange Solutions division at NYSE Technologies, NYSE Euronext’s commercial technology division. Previous to this, he held the position of Managing Director for the Exchange Solutions division at NYSE, focusing on product management and international...
Susannah Streeter, Chief Investment Strategist, Wealth Club Susannah is the Chief Investment Strategist at Wealth Club, the UK’s largest non-advisory investment service exclusively for high net worth and sophisticated investors. Susannah joined Wealth Club after five years as Head of Money and Markets at Hargreaves Lansdown. Previously, Susannah was a senior correspondent and financial news presenter at the BBC’s Economics and Business Unit, anchoring programmes...
Tilda Woodard, Command Leadership and Management, Britannia Royal Naval College. Tilda is a former RAF helicopter pilot with extensive operational experience flying Search and Rescue and Support helicopters. Her career included a three-and-a-half-year exchange with the Royal Navy Commando Helicopter Force, operating across Bosnia, the Middle East, the United States, and the Caribbean from multiple maritime platforms. After 16 years of full-time service, culminating...
Tom Harry, Head of Product, MTS Markets Tom is Head of Product at MTS, part of the Euronext Group, based in London. He has over a decade of experience working closely with the buyside and sellside to build and develop interdealer and dealer-to-client fixed income platforms. He is currently Chairman of the Electronic Debt Markets Association (EDMA).
Tom Ungi, Chief Executive Officer, True Partnership Tom is an executive coach and CEO of True Partnership, with 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry. Since co-founding True Partnership in 2022, he has specialised in executive and performance coaching for clients within financial institutions, operating from Bond Street to Liverpool Street to Bank Street. Before establishing True Partnership, Tom was with Millennium...
Valentina Lorusso is a Policy Officer at ESMA Valentina Lorusso is a Policy Officer in the Markets and Digital Innovation Department at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), where she works on the development of EU regulatory policy with a focus on market structure. Since joining ESMA in 2018, she has contributed to key legislative initiatives aimed at strengthening the integration and functioning of...
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...
Virginie Saade, Managing Director, Head of Government & Regulatory Policy, EMEA, Citadel Virginie Saade is Head of Government and Regulatory Policy for Citadel in EMEA. She is responsible for engaging with policymakers and regulators across EMEA on legislative and regulatory initiatives that are significant to the financial services industry. Prior to joining Citadel, Ms. Saade was Head of European Regulatory Affairs and Strategy for KCG...
Yuhang Wang is Business Initiatives Director at FIX Trading Community, where she leads industry initiatives focused on market structure changes and developing standards across global financial markets. She brings more than 15 years of experience from investment banking and capital markets, including roles at Bank of America in Market Structure and Strategy and as Head of EMEA Market Structure at BMO Capital Markets. Yuhang has worked extensively...