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...
EMEA Trading Conference 2026 Speakers
Thursday 5th March
Speakers
Angelo Proni, Chief Executive Officer, MTS – Euronext Group Angelo Proni is CEO of MTS – Euronext Group and a member of the extended Managing Board of Euronext N.V. MTS is a leading operator of regulated electronic fixed income platforms for European rates, credit and money markets supporting daily transaction volumes of more than €180 billion. Before MTS, Angelo worked in London for 4 years...
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)...
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, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Founder & MD, BPX, Anopolis Dr Robert Barnes, Chartered FCSI(Hon), Co-CEO of real estate platform, BPX, is an exchange expert of 31 years in financial markets, including as CEO of two successful regulated trading venues, Turquoise (2013-2022) & UBS MTF (2010-2013, while at UBS 1994-2013). Chairman (2004-2009) of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association, he...
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,...
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...
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...
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 instant settlement. Mark also leads Kriptown, the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 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 product offer, market model, strategy, pricing...
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...
Tom Doris, Head of Alpha Capture, Carlson Capital Tom leads Alpha Capture at Carlson Capital and brings over 20 years of experience in tech, quant, and data science. He began his career as an R+D engineer with Intel and holds patents for his work on optimizing compilers for multicore processors. Having worked at Marshall Wace in optimizing alpha capture and quant trading, in 2011 he...
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...
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...