Jan 2003 – Present Euronext – Group Head of Regulation Responsible for all aspects of Euronext’s regulatory arrangements, including dealings with the Euronext College of Regulators. Jan 1990 – Jan 2003 LIFFE – Director – Market Secretariat Responsible for all aspects of LIFFE’s regulatory arrangements, including relationships with the SIB/FSA and...
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Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges and exchange groups, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 24 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease...
Iosif Itkin
Iosif Itkin, Co-CEO, Exactpro Iosif is co-founder and co-CEO of Exactpro –independent software testing services provider for financial market infrastructures. The firm’s clients are exchanges, post-trade platforms, and banks across 20 countries. Exactpro’s area of expertise comprises API gateways, matching engines, market data, clearing and settlement, market surveillance, scalability, improving latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is also...
Donal Bryne
Donal Byrne is the CEO of Corvil, the industry leader for deriving IT, Security, and Business intelligence from network data. As companies adopt faster and smarter machine technology, it becomes critical to safeguard the transparency, performance and security of critical infrastructure and business applications. Corvil provides the leading cyber surveillance and forensics platform for trading...
Alex Wolcough
Alex Wolcough, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Fixed Income, FIX Trading Community, Founder and CEO, GreenBirch Group Alex is one of the founding members of Sycamore Financial Technology. The majority of his time is currently spent leading regulatory impact assessments across a broad range of market participants – Trading Platforms, Market Data Vendors,...
Mark Pumfrey
Mark has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Up to 2011 he spent 20 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His last role was Managing Director, Head of Senior relationship Management EMEA and for 10 years prior to that he ran Merrill Lynch’s EMEA equity advisory business globally. In December 2012...
Stephen Hanks
Stephen Hanks, Manager, Trading Policy, Financial Conduct Authority Stephen Hanks worked on the original negotiations on MiFID whilst at HM Treasury. He then joined the FCA’s predecessor organisation at the end of 2006 since when he has worked mainly on wholesale markets issues. He is currently involved in work on the Wholesale Markets Review, mainly...
Natan Tiefenbrun
Natan Tiefenbrun runs Electronic Trading sales and co-heads Agency Equities Trading for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role Natan is responsible for the firm’s electronic trading offering in European markets, and for managing and developing the firm’s broader suite of agency execution capabilities. His team was recently...
Jasper Jorritsma
Jasper Jorritsma – Senior Policy Advisor, Capital Markets, Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) Mr. Jorritsma is Senior Policy Advisor at the AFM, where he serves as policy lead on market structure, market integrity, and commodities issues, and is also involved in strategy development. Mr. Jorritsma was seconded as a policy officer in the Securities Markets...
IHS Markit
IHS Markit is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. We deliver next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions.








