Upcoming Events

Now in its third year, the FPL Latin America Electronic Trading Conference will provide an unrivalled opportunity for industry representatives to participate in a forum where the real issues, challenges and opportunities impacting the region’s electronic trading community will be addressed. Offering an opportunity for delegates to benefit from:

    * An interactive program that truly addresses market needs, providing impartial, high quality content

    * The knowledge and experience of industry leading speakers

    * Separate business and technical streams that generate intelligent debate and educational opportunities

    * Significant networking opportunities throughout the day and into the evening at the post-event cocktail party
 

A dedicated team of industry practitioners from the FIX Protocol Latin America Subcommittee, including senior representatives from some of the region’s leading investment firms, who have a detailed understanding of the challenges facing the markets today, are driving the event agenda to ensure it meets the trading needs of firms in Latin America in 2010.

 
2010 Topic Areas Will Include:

    * Algorithmic trading: What are the options available to the Latin American trader?
    * The future exchange environment in Latin America
    * High frequency trading - the costs, risks and opportunities it presents to the local market
    * The regulatory and self-regulatory challenges impacting electronic trading in Latin America
    * The low latency arms race
    * How can Brazil increase its offering to international traders?
    * FIXatdl: Gaining efficiency gains and cost savings for the algorithmic trading community
    * The use of FIX for foreign exchange and fixed income
    * Achieving an optimal implementation of the FIX Protocol
    * Using FIX to achieve a low latency solution
    * Automation via the FIX Protocol in the post-trade environment

 

The 2010 Conference is focused around adding value to the trader:

• How do we enhance efficiency on the trading desk?
• Can we increase profitability in this environment?
• Is there a blueprint for effective time and resource investment/management?

Our Speakers and Panelists will:

• Provide cutting edge insight into the future of our industry
• Offer breakthrough solutions in adapting to extraordinary market conditions
• Encourage development and implementation of new technological and strategic tools to ensure continued success within the industr

IQPC’s Next Generation Algo Trading Summit brings together senior members of the Buyside from both the trading and technology functions, delivering practical insights into how asset management firms can enhance their trading capabilities, exploit short-lived opportunities, and improve alpha. Unlike other conferences, which tend to be asset-class specific, the summit looks at algorithmic trading strategies across the spectrum, providing comprehensive insights for hedge funds, asset management firms, and proprietary trading desks of investment banks.

Topics Under Discussion Include:
• Changes to global market structure and the implications for algorithmic trading
• Electronic trading and financial reform
• The future of machine-readable news data
• Quantitative approaches to portfolio construction
• Algorithmic trading strategies for FX, commodities, and options
• The future of the latency battle

Trading Architecture Asia brings you the best in the modern trading-desk infrastructure! The event is designed for trading technology specialists and brings together the very best of Asia’s trading IT professionals.

Trading Architecture Asia is dedicated to assisting Asian based trading teams to supercharge their trading room activities to provide a valuable edge in the market place. It is relevant to everyone who involved in planning, developing, deploying and managing large scale, state of the art end-to-end office trading system solutions. To find out more, please contact wbrinfo@wbresearch.com

Colocation and proximity hosting strategies have been some of the fastest growing areas in the evolution of automated and algorithmic trading. According to a recent TABB report on financial services data centres, the financial services industry spends $1.8 billion for colocation and private facilities to support fast direct access to market centres. If you want to beat your competitor to the punch by a millisecond or a microsecond - as many algo and high frequency traders aim to do, you're going to have to constantly wring out bottlenecks and delays in the way your instructions get sent to and executed by the trading venues. Trading Architecture Focus Day on collocation strategies will help you to maximise your advantage and minimise the risks as you implement your proximity trading strategy. Good advice for Sellside, Buyside, Exchanges and ATSs.

Asia is the place to be!