FISD Membership

Registration & Networking

Introduction Remarks

Facilitator:

Facilitator:

Scott Cooper, FIA, FISD Asia-Pac Regional Representative & Partner, Saquish Partners

Host Welcome

Host:

Shing Cheng, Executive Director – Asia Head of Specialized Electronic Trading Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley

Share a ride on the fastest connectivity between Chicago and Tokyo

Long haul connectivity is expensive.  Low-latency connectivity over oceans is really expensive.  But HFT competitors – and competing exchanges – have become “frenemies”.  Why are HFTs and exchanges sharing connections and customers that they previously used to covet?  

• How are exchanges and HFTs helping to facilitate low-latency Connect services?  
• Who is providing access to Connect services?
• What’s the cost (infrastructure and trading) to participate?
• When a contract/company is traded in two connect markets is it subject to a Mutual Offset System (MOS) agreement?
• What market making is involved: licensing the underlying index, getting local market market makers? Who sells the data?

Panelists:

Alexandre Durand, VP of Business Development APAC & EMEA, Enyx

James Hardcastle, Business Development Director APAC, Capital Markets, Colt Technology Services Limited

Charif Lakchiri, Head of Connectivity & Feeds, APAC, ICE Data Services

Danny Lee, Director, Asia-Pacific, Financial Market Networks, IPC Systems, Inc.

What is FPGA; how does it make a difference?

Presenter:

Alexandre Durand, VP of Business Development APAC & EMEA, Enyx

Cloud Computing and Market Data Analysis

Machine learning and big data analysis tools work best with eclectic inputs: a broad range of financial instruments across multiple asset classes (with deep, granular history), combined with unstructured content to identify patterns, correlations, and predictive outcomes with high probability.  

• What are the benefits of cloud for big data analysis?
• What sort of APIs are used to give cloud computing platforms access to data?
• How is the data (real-time and non-real-time) being licensed?
• How does the interface and analysis operate on an ongoing basis?  Does it start from scratch each time or are new updates applied to an incremental analysis?
• Is this a “three way” relationship among the data vendor, cloud provider and the prospective client?  Who sells the proposition?

Moderator:

Endre Markos, Former Director and Asian Head of Execution to Custody,

Panelists:

Jesper Bruun-Olsen, Head of Algomi APAC, Algomi Corporation

Victor Ekong, Director, Corel DMS

Avril Parkin, Director, Client Technology North Asia, Thomson Reuters

Flora Yu, Senior Technical Sales Manager, Microsoft

Closing Remarks

Tom Davin, FIA, Managing Director, FISD

Networking Reception