Carl James is an influential buy-side dealer with 30 years’ experience in global multi-asset execution. He has operated successfully at various Global Asset management companies, including in Global Head of Dealing roles. He has overseen the management of more than £1 trillion of assets. Most recently, Carl has taken over as the Head of Fixed...
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Sassan Danesh
Sassan Danesh, CEO, Etrading Software Ltd. Sassan Danesh has 20 years’ experience assisting capital markets institutions to grow their OTC market franchise by optimising the business performance of their technology offerings. Sassan’s more recent focus is on the role of technology in addressing industry-wide issues. Passionate about the benefits of industry collaboration in providing technology solutions...
Séverine Vandelanoite
Séverine Vandelanoite, Senior Vice President, Market Structure & Regulation, Deutsche Börse AG Séverine is market structure expert for equity markets at Xetra and focuses on regulatory topics which impact the EU equity trading landscape including MiFID II/MiFIR, SSR, MAR and domestic regulations. She supports her institution and Deutsche Börse’s clients in their analysis and understanding...
Jonathan Finney
Jonathan leads the European Business Development at activities with responsibilities including overseeing the firm’s electronic trading relationships with European banks, brokers, asset managers and exchanges and identifying new business opportunities across Europe. Prior to joining Citadel Securities, Jonathan worked at Fidelity International for 11 years, most recently as Head of Systematic Trading.
Christoph Hock
Christoph Hock is Head of Multi-Asset Trading at Union Investment. He joined Union in April 2014 and, with his team, is responsible for all trading activities associated with portfolio management of cash equities, fixed income, fund and ETF business, FX, listed and OTC derivatives, and securities lending. Christoph graduated with a Diplom-Bankbetriebswirt, and has more...
Oliver Pratley
Oliver Pratley is the Research Relationship Manager for Invesco based out of Henley on Thames which runs over $100 billion in active AUM. The Henley Investment Centre is part of Invesco Ltd, a global organisation solely focused on investment management with over $900 billion active AUM and offices all over the world. Mr Pratley has...
Richard Balarkas
Richard Balarkas, Chairman, Saxo UK, Chairman, SquareBook, Non-exec director, CBOE, Board Advisor, Goldex Richard has been in the vanguard of change in financial market structure, regulation and trading for over 30 years. He has held a number of senior positions within leading brokerages, investment banks and exchanges, including President and CEO of Instinet Europe, Global...
Sarah Hay
Sarah Hay, Equities Execution Client Strategy and Head APAC and EMEA Commission Management, UBS Sarah is responsible for managing of senior execution relationship and helping to develop our client and liquidity strategy. She is focused on broad product marketing and providing market-leading execution solutions to our clients to help them with their increasingly complex execution...
Liz Callaghan
Liz Callaghan, Secondary Markets, ICMA Liz’s background is in fixed income & equities electronic trading (Investment Banks, Brokers and MTFs). In the past few years, Liz has focused on market structure strategy (combination of sales/trading experience and knowledge of trading related regulations). Liz’s (CF30) market practitioner’s approach emphasizes: electronic trading product innovation, business line rationalisation...





