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 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, 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 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 – 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...
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Maria currently serves as Co-Chair of the European Regional Committee of FIX Protocol. Having worked for RBS, Credit Suisse, UBS, and the London Stock Exchange, Maria has extensive experience in both connectivity & algorithmic trading sales, and business management for equities & futures. She is currently working as a business development and marketing consultant for...
Catherine Sutcliffe – Financial Services Regulation Specialist Catherine specialises in financial services regulation, recently setting up her own consultancy, MoxieRules. Her MiFID II experience includes an investment bank, an EU policy maker and the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) MiFID II readiness programme. She has worked for Deloitte, Euroclear, JP Morgan, the European Securities and Markets...
Gareth Coltman – Head of European Product Management, MarketAxess Gareth Coltman joined MarketAxess in 2014 as Head of European Product Management and is responsible for the strategy, development and enhancement of MarketAxess’ European trading platform. Mr. Coltman was most recently Head of Product Management with Algomi, where he helped drive the firm’s product strategy in conjunction...
Kevin Houstoun, Board Director, FIX Trading Community, Executive Chairman, Rapid Addition Kevin leads Rapid Addition, a company specialising in Financial services software that delivers high-performance, low-latency electronic trading software. Rapid Addition provides messaging platform that works with FPGA hardware and software to support electronic financial messaging for applications such as price dissemination, order routing, smart...
