Laetitia Visconti, Head of Market Structure, Aquis Exchange Laetitia Visconti has over 20 years’ experience in equities execution, financial services advocacy, and regulatory change management. She joined Aquis Exchange in February 2025 as Head of Market Structure, where she leads the firm’s advocacy and regulatory agenda, and contributes actively to the product innovation and strategy...
Ian Taylor, Board Advisor, CryptoUK Ian is the Board Advisor of CryptoUK (CUK), the United Kingdom’s trade body representing more than 150 companies from across the U.K. digital asset sector. CUK partners with other industry bodies such as UK Finance, Innovate Finance, Electronic Money Association, Blockchain for Europe, Global Digital Asset Currency Association, Blockchain Association,...
Louise Drummond, Global Head Investment Execution, Aberdeen Standard Investments Louise joined Aberdeen Standard Investments as a result of the merger between Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in August 2017. Louise joined Aberdeen following the SWIP acquisition in April 2014 having joined SWIP in November 2008 as Global Head of Fixed Income Dealing. Prior to joining SWIP,...
Robert Miller, Global Head of Equity Execution Sales, Kepler Cheuvreux He has over 20 years of experience in equity execution, market structure and data analytics. Prior to KCx, Robert worked as Head of International Trading Analytics and Strategy at Vanguard. KCx is the No1 independent European equity broker and was voted 2024 Best Electronic Equities...
Pippa Hannaby, Director Rates Sales US Electronic, Barclays Pippa Hannaby is Head of Barclays US Rates eSales team, based in New York. She is responsible for client relationships in electronic rates trading and driving the electronic Fixed Income franchise. Prior to her career in Financial Services, Pippa served as a Royal Navy Officer for 12...
Christian Schmid, Business Development Manager – Equities and Derivatives, EuroCCP Christian joined the Commercial Team at EuroCCP in December 2020 as a Business Development Manager. He focuses on new and innovative revenue streams, building out their diversification to ETFs and Derivatives, expanding their core membership base and growing market share. Before joining EuroCCP he started...
Kay Swinburne, Vice Chair of Financial Services, KPMG Dr Kay Swinburne is the Vice Chair of KPMG UK’s Financial Services practice, Chair of KPMG’s EMA Risk & Regulatory Insight Centre, and Co-lead of KPMG’s Global Sustainable Finance Service, leading C-suite engagement for FS clients and advising KPMG’s UK, EMA and global FS leadership. She’s an...
Fabrizio Planta, Head of Markets and Data Reporting Department, ESMA Fabrizio Planta is Head of Markets and Data Reporting Department at ESMA, with responsibility over Secondary Markets, Post-Trading, Market Integrity, Market Data and supervision over Trade Repository. He was previously Head of the Post-Trading Unit where he has been in charge of the development of...
Rachel Przybylski,Chief Product Officer, SIGMA A markets and technology professional with specialist knowledge of regulation and market structure with over 15 years experience gained across buy-side & sell-side firms. A team builder focused on strategy, business development and product delivery of multi asset-class, trading technology and data. Rachel is an active member of Industry bodies...
Merlin Rajah, Head: Electronic Sales Trading, Absa Merlin Rajah is Absa’s Head of Electronic Sales Trading and has been with the Absa team since May 2020 responsible for all electronic new business and client relationships. Prior to Absa, Merlin spent almost a decade at the JSE as their Business Development Manager for Electronic Trading. At...
