FX Trading Desk

FT Live Calendar

08/12/14

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Registration & networking
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm	Chair's opening remarks Philip Stafford, FT Trading Room Editor, Financial Times
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm	Keynote address: Ensuring a fair and effective FX market: Guidance from ethical professionals How to ensure conduct is appropriate in a global market? Dealing with compliance and legal aspects Latest developments on codes of conduct, enforcement and risks to the business What can be done to keep the industry functioning effectively? Marshall Bailey, Global President, ACI - The Financial Markets Association
4:30 pm - 5:10 pm	Market structure panel discussion: Gaining an in-depth understanding of the constantly changing execution landscape Assessing the ideal trader - broker relationship in order for you to proof best execution, to reduce costs and to maintain regulatory compliance Determining whether the electronification of FX as an asset class will result in heavier regulation Assessing how algos can enable Heads of FX Trading to achieve the benchmarks they want to provide them greater control to access liquidity What are banks and brokers doing to serve the needs of buy side FX trading desks amid regulatory turmoil? Could reforms tear the heart of the FX market as regulators are probing the role of banks in currency trading? Moderator Philip Stafford, FT Trading Room Editor, Financial Times Panel Lee Sanders, Head of FX & FI Trading, AXA Investment Managers Philippe Bonnefoy, Founder, Eleuthera Capital; Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, Newscape Capital Group James Rockall, Director of Trading, Record Currency Management Ltd Asif Razaq, Global Head of FX Algo Execution, BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking Neil Staines, Head of Trading & Execution, ECU Group
5:10 pm - 5:25 pm	Q&A
5:25 pm - 5:30 pm	Chair's closing remarks
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Drinks reception and networking
6:30 pm	Conclusion