Andrew Douglas, Chair, UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce Andrew has spent 35 years in the City working in the post trade space. He started at Citibank in the Worldwide Securities Services group where he ultimately managed the European Customer Service team for the Clearing & Custody businesses before moving to Deutsche’s Investment Bank to run middle...
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...
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...
Peter Whitaker, Market Structure Strategist, Jane Street Peter Whitaker is a Market Structure Strategist covering European and Asian markets within Jane Street’s Institutional team. In this role, Peter analyses regulatory and market structure developments that impact trading and liquidity. He produces studies and shares insights with institutional clients including global asset managers, pension funds and...
TradingHub is a cutting-edge finance-focused big data firm. We pride ourselves on building the best-in-class tooling for trade surveillance, financial markets anti-money laundering, best execution, and financial markets reporting and analytics. Our customer base includes some of the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, commodity houses, and brokerage firms, representing over $20 trillion...
Alison Hollingshead, Chief Operating Officer, Investment Management, Jupiter Asset Management Alison Hollingshead is Investment Management Chief Operating Officer at Jupiter, a role she took up in June 2022. Alison is responsible for managing the operational functions and activities of Investment Management, including line management of Trading and Investment Business Managers. Alison was previously Chief of...
Dr Rhys Bollen, Senior Executive Leader, Market Supervision, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) Rhys leads ASIC’s Market Supervision team within the Markets group. He is responsible for the oversight of investment banks, market participants and issuers of complex retail products, and for monitoring trading activities across Australia’s equities, futures, and over-the-counter markets. His previous...
Samuel Livingstone, Head of Quantitative Strategies and Risk, Ambienta Sam joined Ambienta in 2024 as Head of Quantitative Strategies and Risk – he is based in London. Prior to Ambienta, Sam held a number of senior buy-side roles, most recently as the Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Jupiter Asset Management. Previously, he...
Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Hester M. Peirce was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn in on January 11, 2018. Prior to joining the SEC, Commissioner Peirce conducted research on the regulation of financial markets at the Mercatus Center at George Mason...
Luke Colairo, Head of Operations, BennBridge Limited Luke is the Head of Operations at BennBridge and has over 7 years’ experience in financial services. BennBridge, part of the Australian-based BFM Group, is a multi-boutique asset management firm that partners with boutique investment teams and provides them with all their non-investment support. Prior to joining BennBridge,...
