Rapid Addition – Electronic Trading Innovators Rapid Addition was an early pioneer in the development of advanced electronic trading technology and is recognised as a market leader in financial messaging protocols and scalable middleware. Our asset class and message protocol-agnostic platform provides a foundational building block that enables organisations to build electronic trading capabilities that...
Exactpro specializes in quality assurance services and related software development with focus on test automation for securities data distribution, trading systems, risk management, market surveillance and post-trade infrastructures. In May 2015 – January 2018, Exactpro was part of the Technology Services division of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). In January 2018, the founders of...
Liquidnet is a leading technology-driven, agency execution specialist that intelligently connects the world’s investors to the world’s investments. Since our founding in 1999, our network has grown to include more than 1,000 institutional investors and spans 56 markets across six continents. We built Liquidnet to make global capital markets more efficient and continue to do...
Itiviti provides nearly 2,000 financial institutions worldwide with flexible, cross-asset trading solutions that cover the full trade lifecycle. Through its commitment to technology innovation, relentless pursuit of workflow efficiency and an entrepreneurial culture, Itiviti is disrupting the industry with highly-scalable solutions that deliver unprecedented cost savings for clients. Itiviti was acquired by Broadridge Financial Solutions,...
Fidessa’s solutions are underpinned by efficient end-to-end workflow. Our low-latency DMA platform provides high-performance, scalable and consistent access to 200+ global markets to support brokers in delivering the low-touch, global, multi-asset execution capabilities their clients demand. Optimised trading capabilities include smart order routing, algo trading, sophisticated analytics and powerful risk management. Fidessa’s derivatives trading platform...
Kerstin is Managing Director of the Swedish Securities Dealers’ Association (SSDA) since 2006. Her first major task as managing director of SSDA was the MIFID 1 implementation; from dialoque with legislators and regulators to review of all SSDA selfregulation and standards. Under Kerstin’s leadership SSDA has continued to focus on serving and supporting its members in regulatory developments and infrastructure projects. The SSDA has also become more and more active on following the EU agenda, especially through an increased co-operation with the other Nordic associations and the establishment of the Nordic Securities Association.
Kerstin is active within the European Banking Association (e.g. chairing the Secondary Market WG) and the European Forum for Securities Associations. Kerstin is a board member of AP7 which is the stateowned alternative to the private investment funds offered by the Swedish premium pension system – AP7 has around 300 billion SEK under management.
Kerstin has a Master of Laws from the University of Lund. She started as a young lawyer in an investment firm in 1985. She joined Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken in 1991, first as a lawyer serving mainly the custody area and then as Head of Compliance in the investment bank arm. Kerstin has been an expert in several government investigations related to securities law and regulation.
Amy May, Executive Director, Electronic Trading, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley Amy May runs the global Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) vendor management team. A member of the firm since 1996, Amy and the vendor management team cover global connectivity for all high touch and low touch algorithmic and direct market access for equities, options and...
Mark Gurliacci is the Senior Quantitative Trader at AllianceBernstein. In his role, Mark has responsibilities for all algorithmic trading strategies and quantitative analysis for the Global Equities Trading desks. He manages the firm’s Systematic Trading and Auto-Routing (STAR) framework, is chairperson of the Automated Trading Oversight Committee and a member of the Brokerage Allocation, Swing...
Michael Bird is the Senior Managing Director of Triad Securities Corp., responsible for the firm’s sales, operations, finances an d new business development. Prior to Triad Securities, Mr. Bird spent 13 years a senior executive with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. Most recently, as Managing Director, he headed and successfully grew two...
Esprow is the leading global provider of API lifecycle (design, testing, simulation, certification) solutions for the financial industry. Founded in 2011, we serve the needs of tier-1 and tier-2 banks, brokers, trading venues, exchanges, trading platforms’ vendors, as well as leading market data providers globally. Esprow’s Enterprise Testing Platform (ETP) is the only industry solution...
