Fixed Income & FX Leaders Summit APAC 2024
November 19, 2024
Equarius Hotel, Sentosa, Singapore
Buy Side Only Platform Evaluation Day - Tuesday, September 17th 2019
11:45 am - 12:50 pm
Networking Lunch and Registration
12:50 pm - 12:55 pm
Welcome Address
Suhana Begum, Conference Director, Fixed Income Leaders Summit
12:55 pm - 1:10 pm
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
The Buy Side Wish-List
1:10 pm - 1:40 pm
Buy Side Perspective: Prepare your check-list - What questions should you be asking to fully recognise the pros and cons of each initiative?
Jerry Jarrell -
Principal, CEO,
Vantage Investment
Pierre-Emmanuel Charlier -
Head of Fixed Income Trading, Asia,
Pictet Asset Management
Ambarish Ray -
Fixed Income Trader, Rates & FX Asia,
T Rowe Price
- The use of technology to enhance the investment process: Research, trading and quantitative analysis – What’s at the top of your agenda?
- Can existing technologies used for trading in other asset classes apply to bonds? What are the transferable technologies that you need?
- The platform paradigm- How can you establish which initiative you should be supporting and why?
- When evaluating platforms, what are the key areas you should be testing and looking out for?
- What different platform models can help you prosper in a new electronic environment?
- How can you establish what platform is best suited to fit into your current workflow?
Ambarish Ray
Fixed Income Trader, Rates & FX AsiaT Rowe Price
1:40 pm - 2:20 pm
Platforms In The Spotlight: A 5 minute introduction to each initiative involved today - What new trading protocols and technology is each provider promoting and how can you best leverage these capabilities to improve your access to liquidity?
Christophe Roupie -
Head of Europe and Asia,
MarketAxess
Viktor Östebo -
Head of Institutional ETF Trading,
Flow Traders
Etai Ravid -
CEO,
BondIT
James Bunting -
Director Of Business Development,
ChartIQ
Jesper Bruun-Olsen -
Head of Asia Pacific,
Algomi
Meha Thind -
Managing Director – Asia,
Yield Broker
Steve Cheung -
Product Specialist, Asia Pacific,
BlackRock iShares
Perry Goetz -
Global Head of Electronic Trading Solutions & Vault,
Bloomberg L.P
Listen to a 5 minute innovation pitch from each platform to fully understand:
ü Trading protocol or innovation promoted
ü Unique selling points
ü Buy side adoption rates
Intro To The New Initiatives
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Afternoon networking break
Platform Evaluation Roundtables
2:40 pm - 4:20 pm
Buy side Q&A Roundtables: Evaluate 1-4 of the newest fixed income and FX eTrading offerings with your buy side peers to understand who is best placed to meet your liquidity and technology needs
Break into groups of 8 buy side and sit with each platform on roundtables to engage in an open Q&A discussion with your peers (Each roundtable lasts 25 minutes).
- What are the key differences between the new initiatives and how can they help you overcome the liquidity drought?
- How can the initiatives help you source new liquidity pools in constrained markets?
- Where are the new platforms up to in their on-boarding life cycle and how successful has the process been?
- What different eTrading protocols are available to the buy side and what benefits do they bring?
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm
Refreshment Break
4:40 pm - 5:30 pm
Buy side Q&A Roundtables: Evaluate 5-6 of the newest fixed income and FX eTrading offerings with your buy side peers to understand who is best placed to meet your liquidity and technology needs Break into groups of 8 buy side and sit with each platform on roundtables to engage in an open Q&A discussion with your peers (Each roundtable lasts 25 minutes).
- What are the key differences between the new initiatives and how can they help you overcome the liquidity drought?
- How can the initiatives help you source new liquidity pools in constrained markets?
- Where are the new platforms up to in their on-boarding life cycle and how successful has the process been?
- What different eTrading protocols are available to the buy side and what benefits do they bring?