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...
Alice Lucas, Head of Institutional Electronic Execution, Peel Hunt Alice joined Peel Hunt in 2022 as Head of Institutional Electronic Execution to lead the growth and rollout of a newly developed electronic product suite, leveraging the firm’s unique position in the retail trading space. Prior to joining Peel Hunt, Alice spent almost 10 years at...
Goncalo Lima, Co-Chair Digital Assets & Technology Committee, FIX Trading Community, Capital Markets Strategy Lead, R3 Goncalo is the Capital Markets Strategy Lead at R3. Previously, Goncalo was a Macro COO at Standard Chartered Bank for the last 13 years. He represented SCB at the Global FX Division and was the chair of the Steering...
Dan Squires, VP of Sales for Financial Markets, Imandra Dan Squires is VP of Sales for Imandra. Imandra is an AI startup engaged in Formal Verification. In financial markets Imandra is working with exchanges, venues, brokers and others to bring rigour and precision to the design of complex systems, as well as protocols like FIX....
Ayesha Ghafoor, Principal, Capital Markets and Wholesale Policy, UK Finance Ayesha Ghafoor is a Principal in the Capital Markets and Wholesale team at UK Finance. She represents UK Finance member views on secondary markets and post-trade policy with politicians and regulators at the international and national level, with a focus on the UK’s regulatory reform...
Mike Carrodus, CEO & Founder, Substantive Research Mike launched Substantive Research in 2015, having run the global sales team for one of the largest independent research providers, Ned Davis Research. His idea was that financial institutions would find enormous value from gaining a better understanding of pricing trends and supply in the research and data...
Gordon Wood, European Equity Trader, Invesco Gordon Wood is a Senior Equity Trader covering EMEA equities in the Henley office. Invesco Henley turned over approx. $80bn in 2022 on behalf of Portfolio Managers around the world.
Piebe Teeboom, Secretary General, FIA EPTA. As Secretary General for the European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA), Piebe Teeboom leads Europe’s primary industry body for independent market making firms. Working closely with FIA EPTA’s members and other market participants, he represents FIA EPTA towards public stakeholders in the EU and UK. As an expert on...
Brandon Rym Decoster, Product Management Team Leader, Bloomberg. Brandon “Rym” DeCoster heads product management of Bloomberg’s FIX, SWIFT, and Exchange Connectivity Platform Infrastructure. With 16 years of FIX Protocol experience and a prolific history of speaking on the topic, he is responsible for the ongoing modernization and standardization of FIX across all of Bloomberg’s FIX-enabled...
