Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL

Dr Elliot Banks is the Chief Product Officer at BMLL. Elliot is responsible for data science, product development and product delivery, working closely with both clients and development teams to deliver BMLL’s analytics and product suite to clients. Prior to joining BMLL, Elliot held a mixture of commercial and technical roles, including roles within the infrastructure private equity arm of Macquarie and as a Faculty AI Data Science Fellow.
Elliot holds an MMath from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College London.

Marc Berthoud, Head Exchange Data Strategy, SIX Swiss Exchange

Marc currently serves as Head Exchange Data Strategy for SIX, one of the leading securities market operators in Europe.

Securing high quality data is a central focus area of Marc’s portfolio. Marc drove the modernization of SIX Swiss Exchange market data dissemination infrastructure, improving latency, scalability, timestamping accuracy as well as data content. He recently completed the integration of all BME data sources in the SIX MDDX consolidated feed.

Marc is active in some prominent market data standardisation initiatives. He’s Co-Chairing the FIX Market Model Typology (MMT) Technical Committee. MMT delivers an efficient operational solution for meeting RTS 1 /RTS 2 trade flagging requirements. Most market operators and data vendors have already implemented the MMT logic in their data feeds and display terminals across Europe.

Marc is additionally engaged in several collaborative groups delivering industry wide benefits. He contributes to the FESE Market Data Expert Group as well as  to the WFE Exchange and CCP Data Group.

Marc started his career in the securities industry working for the Geneva Stock Exchange during the transition towards full electronic trading. He previously worked in Munich for the energy company EON.

Marc graduated in Economics and holds various industry certifications with strong focus on data management from EDM Council, ICMA, FISD and is a certified Prince 2 project manager.

Matt Bumstead, Product Manager, Content Acquisition, Platforms & Market Data Model, Bloomberg L.P.

Matt is a founding member (2011) and Co-Chair of the FIX Market Model Typology (MMT) Technical Committee, a standard for efficiently and consistently describing transactions (“trades”) across European markets and trade reporting services. Matt works in the Platforms & Market Data Model team at Bloomberg, with a predominant focus on the market data acquisition and normalisation for exchanges, alternative trading venues and exchange-listed OTC pricing sources.

Jim Kaye, Executive Director, FIX Trading Community

Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.