Dan Upbin, Vice President, Derivatives Clearing Strategy & Product, Morgan Stanley Dan’s key focus areas include margin processing/optimization, post-trade capture and futures deliveries strategy within the business. Dan is also active in industry initiatives, including serving as one of Morgan Stanley’s representatives on FIA’s DMIST Sponsor Board Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2022, Dan...
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Walt Lukken
Walter Lukken, President and CEO, FIA Walter Lukken is the President and CEO of the FIA, the leading global trade organization for the futures, options and centrally cleared derivatives markets, with offices in Brussels, London, Singapore and Washington, D.C. FIA’s membership includes clearing firms, exchanges, clearinghouses, trading firms and commodities specialists from more than 48...
Shakeel Ahmed
Shakeel Ahmed, US eRates & Cross Asset Connectivity Product, J.P.Morgan With 12+ years of experience in capital markets , is currently focused in eRates distribution and new product development in US Rates along with driving the connectivity strategy for eFICC within JPMC. Prior to joining the Product group Shakeel was heading the eFICC FIX connectivity...
Rebecca Mazour
Rebecca Mazour, Head of Integration, Trumid With over a decade of credit market experience both as a FIX integration specialist and analyst, Rebecca is responsible for end-to-end FIX connectivity at Trumid. As Head of Integration, Rebecca manages Trumid’s dedicated client integration and FIX product analyst teams, ensuring seamless connectivity and smooth integrations for institutional clients....
Derek Schure
Derek Schure, Americas Director of Trading Sales, London Stock Exchange Group Specializing in multi-asset order, execution and portfolio management. Prior to being in FinTech, Derek worked on both buy and sell side trading desks allowing him to be very impactful in his current role. Outside of work Derek is an avid hockey fan who also...
John Colasanti
John Colasanti, Managing Director – FX & Rates Algo Execution, Precision Algo John Colasanti leads the Precision FX and Rates Algo businesses for BGC. Mr. Colasanti has 20 years of sales and trading experience across FX, Rates, and Prime Brokerage. He previously held leadership roles at Barclays Capital, Citi, Instinet and ITG Virtu.
Todd McDonald
Todd McDonald, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, R3 Todd is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer for R3. Todd co-founded R3 in 2015 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of blockchain technology for the financial services industry and beyond. He also served on the Hyperledger Governing Board where he oversaw all project...
Dwayne Middleton
Dwayne Middleton, Global Head of Trading in the Fixed Income Division, T. Rowe Price He is responsible for leading the Trading team across foreign exchange, interest rate, investment-grade and high yield credit, emerging market, municipal, mortgage, and structured product asset classes. Dwayne also is actively involved in the fixed income market structure and trading technology...
Mike Maloney
Mike Maloney, Proposition Director – Buy Side Trading & CEO, REDI Technologies Head of Buy-side trading at LSEG, where he is CEO and Managing Principal of REDI Technologies, and is responsible for ATR & Autex. Michael joined REDI in 2013 and has since served in roles across support, account management, sales and sales engineering. In his...
David Yermack
David Yermack, Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation, New York University’s Stern School of Business David Yermack is the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994. He is also an Adjunct Professor of...









