Nordic Trading Conference 2024 Speakers

Thursday 16th May

Speakers

Alexander Boman

Alexander Boman, CEO and co-founder of Montrose by Carnegie – a new venture launching in 2024 with the vision to create the worlds best digital platform for private investors. Former Head of Product at Avanza. More info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderboman/

Alexander Sjögren

Alexander Sjögren, Product Manager Equities Trading for Retail & Private Banking within SEB. A space physicist who left space for the down-to-earth world of trading 15 years ago. Spent ten years at Handelsbanken mainly as cash equity trader but also within IT and business development.  Since almost four years working to improve the electronic trading offering for retail and private banking clients within SEB by...

Alexander Wojt

Alexander Wojt is Head of SEK Rates at SEB and is based in Stockholm. He is responsible for SEB’s Swedish flow rates distrubution and for the market-making operation in liquid Swedish bonds and derivatives. Prior to joining SEB in 2020, Alexander had worked for 10 years at Nordea and Morgan Stanley within rates strategy. Alexander graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology with a BSc/MSc...

Daniel Wendin

Daniel Wendin, Co-Chair Nordic Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Quantitative Execution Strategy, SEB Extensive front office experience – Trading & Capital Markets, Cash Equity, Quantitative Trading, Business and Product development. M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Business Management with specialisation in Telecommunications.

Elizabeth Brooks Callaghan

Liz has over 25 years experience in market structure strategy, including innovation, restructuring, and regulation. From 2014 – 2023, Liz focused mostly on bond MiFID II/MiFIR advocacy, driving suitable corporate and sovereign bond transparency frameworks in both the EU and UK. Liz also chaired key industry taskforces such as: 1. CT Taskforce – At the request of EC DG-FISMA, Liz worked with buy-side, sell-side, and...

Emma Lokko

Head of Market Structure (Europe), Susquehanna, Executive Committee Member, FIA EPTA

Erik Einerth

Erik Einerth, Senior Expert of Capital and Derivatives Markets, SSMA With 30 years of financial market experience, Erik currently holds the position of Senior Expert of Capital and Derivatives Markets at SSMA. This role follows Erik’s work as Senior Business Development Manager and Regulatory Affairs Officer at Swedbank. Erik has also had 20 years of trading experience as a derivatives market maker and equity trader....

Felix von Bahr

Felix von Bahr, Head of Nordic Sales, EU Equities an Derivatives at Nasdaq In his role as head of Nordic sales for equities and equity derivatives Felix is working closely with the key stakeholders of the Nordic trading community to understand their needs and develop the Nordic equity markets. Felix have spent the last 10 years at Nasdaq, prior to that he served as a...

Gustaf Aspenberg

Head of Execution for Equities, Fixed Income and FX at Swedbank Robur. Former sell side trader, 15 years market making SEK Rates.

Hanno Klein

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...

Haroon Hassan

CEO at Sense Street. Extensive experience working on bond trading desks in Europe and the US as a trader and research analyst, including substantive engagement with the Asset Management community. Currently focused on the deployment of data driven methods and emerging technologies into capital markets.

Henrik Falk

Henrik Falk, Head of Trading at Swedbank, overseeing risk taking in Credits, Rates, FX and Equity derivatives. Prior to this role he was responsible for the Rates trading business. Henrik has more than 10 years of experience in various trading and capital market roles at Swedbank, Morgan Stanley and Pareto Securities.

James Baugh

James Baugh, Managing Director, Head of European Market Structure, TD Securities James joined TD Execution Services in 2021 (formerly Cowen Execution Services, now part of TD Securities) as Head of European Market Structure and has been instrumental in helping to develop its liquidity strategy. Prior to this, he spent five years at Citi as European Head of Market Structure and 11 years at London Stock...

James Hilton

European Head of Multi Asset Agency Solutions RBC Capital Markets

Jesper Bridgsted Lauresen

Senior Product Manager with Euronext Securities, focusing on settlement services across T2S and local settlement markets. Previous experience includes Fintech based trading, settlement and custody solutions based on distributed ledger technology as well as more than a decade with Saxo Bank, delivering multi-asset trading applications and rolling out financial products and services for institutional and retail clients globally. (FX, CFDs, Equities, Options and Futures)

Jim Kaye

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.

Joakim Bornold

Joakim Bornold has over 25 years of experience in the Swedish securities market. He has served as a broker and industry expert, as well as Head of trading at different firms including Enskilda and Nasdaq. Presently, he holds the positions of founder and chairman at the online brokerage Levler.

Julie Zhou

Julie Zhou, Head of Continental EU Sales for Cash Equities at Cboe Europe Julie is Head of Continental EU sales for Cash Equities at Cboe Europe, which operates the largest pan-European equities exchange by market share and value-traded, the largest pan-European equity trade reporting services, as well as low-cost European equity market data and benchmark equity trade indices. She is responsible for client relationship management...

Konstantin Romanov

Konstantin Romanov, Head of Principal Trading at Broadridge. In his role he is responsible for strategic roadmap of Principal Trading product suite, aimed towards principal trading desks in banks, automated market makers and sophisticated proprietary trading firms and hedge funds. Konstantin has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets technology working at Orc Software, Tbricks, Itiviti and then Broadridge, in Engineering, Architecture and later Product...

Lars Barnekow

Lars has been working within the markets division at Nordea since 2008 in various roles; derivatives structuring, derivatives sales with focus on cross-currency swaps. Lars has done coverage of both corporates & financials but since 2016 only financials with an extra focus on banks.  He became Head of Fixed Income Sales Sweden in November 2022  and Managing Director in 2024.

Magnus Liljeqvist

Magnus Liljeqvist, Business Development for Savings & Pension within Handelsbanken, using over two decades of experience in the banking sector. Started his career after university at Swedens first online trading platform NetTrade. Spent more than 10 years structuring and selling ETPs and structured products before transitioning to Handelsbanken’s business development division. Since almost seven years driving digitalization initiatives aimed at improving the offering of funds...

Marc Berthoud

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...

Markus Mild

Markus Mild, Regulatory Strategist & Principal Compliance Analyst, Nasdaq Current EU Regulatory strategy Former Finansinspektionen (Swedish FSA) as Senior Market Analyst at the Markets Analysis Department (Sweden representative in ESMA Standing Committees) 15+ years’ experience from industry as Derivatives & Cash trader/Risk

Mathias Eriksson

Experienced Financial Trader with a demonstrated history of working in the investment management industry. Skilled in Program Trading, Algorithmic trading, Credit trading and Derivatives Trading, Strong finance professional with a MSc focused in Economics from Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. Employed at AP2 since 2005.  

Mathias Westman

Mathias Westman, Credit Trader, Fixed Income and Equity Trading, Swedbank Robur Fonder AB Mathias Westman, Credit Trader, Swedbank Robur. Mathias joined Swedbank Robur in 2019 where he’s responsible for Euro and Scandi High Yield Trading. Before joining Robur Mathias spent 7 years within Fixed Income Sales and Trading, covering the European and Scandi Markets. Swedbank Robur currently employ 5 Fixed Income and Credit market traders,...

Matthew Coupe

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...

Nazed Mannan

Nazed Mannan, Head of Quantitative Products, BMLL Technologies With over a decade of experience in the financial services industry, Nazed is an expert in low touch execution trading. Prior to his current role, he was a Director at Barclays Investment Bank, where he was the EMEA Product lead for the low touch execution desk and cash equities trading platform. Nazed began his career in the...

Olof Werneman

Olof Werneman, Deputy Head of Global Equity at Svenska Handelsbanken. Prior to his current role he was Head of Equities & Commodities Trading and has over 15 years of experience from market making, product development, quantitative finance, risk management, regulatory implementations, IT and business development.

Peter Lidblom

Peter Lidblom joined DWS in 2017 as Head of Sales for Xtrackers Nordics and the Baltics. Prior to joining DWS and Xtrackers Peter was Head of Sales for Nordics, UK and Holland at ETF Securities. Between 2010-2012 Peter worked as sales trader for NSBO, focusing on China Macro and government policy. Peter also has over 10 years of experience as head of Sales for Equity...

Quincy Curry

Quincy Curry, Director of Securities Brokerage, Nordnet Quincy Curry is the Head of Securities Brokerage at Nordnet.  Prior to joining Nordnet in January, 2022, he worked for 2 years at fintech startup Mondido as both CFO and Chief Strategy Officer; 11 years at Bank of America, where he worked with Equity Structured Financing first in New York and then London, before taking on responsibility for...

Rebecca Healey

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...

Rob Boardman

Robert Boardman is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for ITG in Europe and is responsible for the strategic development of the company. Before his current appointment he successfully led the algorithmic business in Europe and more recently spearheaded ITG’s electronic trading offerings. Prior to joining ITG in April 2006, Boardman spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs where he held various positions, including executive director...

Roland Chai

Roland Chai, President European Market Services Roland Chai is EVP Nasdaq. Roland also serves as Chair of the Nasdaq Clearing Board since end 2023, and as a board member of the ISSA Board since 2023 and the OCC Board since 2024. Prior to his current role as President European Market Services, Roland led Nasdaq’s Marketplace Technology business from 2022-2023. He has also served as Nasdaq’s...

Samu Lang

Aktia’s CIO Samu Lang is a deep investment professional with extensive experience in portfolio management and investment management. Investment planning, product development and portfolio management of various allocation strategies are at the core of his competence. Samu is particularly interested in portfolio construction, market opportunities and investment trends in a global context.

Scott Charity

Scott Charity, Head of Market structure, Berenberg, Co-Chair Global Member Services Committee, FIX Trading Community Scott Charity is a Head of Market structure currently working at Berenberg, a well-known international investment bank and asset management firm. Scott has been involved with the FIX Trading Community for over 6 years and most recently as a Board member and co-chair of the Global Steering Committee.

Stephanie Elford

Stephanie Elford is a highly motivated and experienced professional with over 20 years of experience in the Swedish Fixed Income market. She has achieved success in her notable roles, including current role Head of Fixed Income Trading at Swedbank Corporates & Institutions. Prior to her current role, Stephanie served as the Product Owner for Fixed Income at Swedbank. During this time, she played a crucial...

Trevor Mallinson

Trevor Mallinson is Global Head of Bloomberg’s Electronic Rates Trading business. During his time at Bloomberg he has led the development and deployment of Bloomberg’s Multilateral Trading Facility alongside Fixed Income Trading Venues in the US, Japan and Singapore. He has also led the Market Structure team for the firm’s trading business and worked closely on MiFIDII. Prior to his time at Bloomberg, Trevor worked...

Vladislava Bedrataja

Vladislava Bedrataja, as the Head of Equities Services at SEB, directs the management of post-trade operations for the Large Corporates & Financial Institutions client segment within the equities and equities-related product domain. Throughout a tenure of 16 years at SEB, she has navigated through diverse specialist and strategic leadership roles, extensively engaging with an array of trading and payments products in the post-trade landscape. Business...