FinanceFeeds Thought Leadership Conference in London tomorrow. Here is the agenda!

Tomorrow, on May 7, at 10,00am, FinanceFeeds will welcome over 120 senior executives from across the world to the first Professional Trading Thought Leadership Conference at The Ned in London.

It will be a milestone event, where world leading technologists, hedge fund managers, prime brokerage executives and leaders of multinational giants whose expertise will form the next generation of electronic trading business methodology will discuss important matters, gain insights from the very top and network with important commercial partners, and will be co-hosted by Sweden’s first high quality multi-asset brokerage, Scandinavian Capital Markets.

Here is the agenda:

Venue: The Ned, 27 Poulty, London EC2R 8AJ

10.00am – Conference doors open and guests welcomed

10.45am – Keynote speech by Dr Richard Smith, of Tradestops

11.00am – Lively and interactive panel discussion featuring global leaders from major industry who will debate the new direction we must all take to modernize and move forward for a profitable and cutting edge future in electronic trading.

12.00pm – Lunch will be served.

1.00pm – Networking and refreshments, giving you the chance to meet over 120 global leaders which we have selected from every sector to make YOUR business meetings relevant and efficient in order to forge new partnerships with clients and providers from across the world at the most senior level in the industry.

4.30pm – Conference conclusion, and exit speech by proprietary traders, who will address brokers and institutions about their requirements and perspectives.

5.00pm – Good evening from Andrew Saks-McLeod, who will wish you all success this year ahead.

Meet the Speakers

1: Dr Richard Smith

Florida-based Dr Richard Smith is Founder and CEO of TradeSmith and the Creator of TradeStops.com Risk Management System. He is a visionary in terms of how the retail FX business needs to evolve.

Dr Smith’s covert passion is to integrate insights from behavioral finance and economics into technology in ways that nobody knows they’re there.

He considers speculative trading to be a behavioral problem in that everyone is focusing on technology that delivers many facets, however his ethos is that we need to engage more people in the capital markets. “There are too few capital markets and the retail public is being dis-served.

As a result the capital markets are imperiled by the lack of true engagement. This problem should be the basis for the new technologies that power FX” 

2: Bradley Rotter

Based in the Silicon Valley, Bradley has been a long time “impact” investor, in his case impacting the security of the homeland. He is a co founder and Board member of Entanglement.Inc which is a public private partnership with the US Government to build the first mega quantum computing center in Newport, Rhode Island.

He was one of the pioneers of financial futures when trading on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He began investing in 1982 and in 1985 pioneered the concept of “seeding” alternative managers with equity capital and comprehensive support. Bradley has been the first investor in scores of alternative investments and money management boutiques. He also cofounded Halo Maritime Defense Systems.

Bradley founded AirPatrol Corporation to take advantage of the biggest trend he had ever seen: wireless and mobility. AirPatrol purchased a portfolio of excellent wi-fi locationing technology from a public company that was being taken over, along with the smart radio engineers that had originally built it.

Bradley has been the first investor in scores of alternative investments and money management boutiques. His deals have spanned a plethora of alternative asset classes, from tankers to satellites, and reach around the globe.

Bradley was awarded the Private Deal of the Year Award by Investors Dealer’s Digest for one such innovative structured finance transaction. He has been a frequent speaker nationwide, and in 2006 gave a speech at the biggest hedge fund conference entitled “Why I am Getting Out of Hedge Funds”.Bradley has been investing in technology and alternative assets from his base in San Francisco for the last 20 years. He serves on numerous private and public company Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards.

3: Nathaniel Hansen, Director of Research, The Socializers

Based in Santa Barbara, California, Nathaniel Hansen has substantial experience in developing strategic methods of deep research to identify relevant, untapped client bases, and has provided this service to over 25 retail FX brokerages globally.

Nathaniel Hansen is the founder and current Director of Research at The Socializers – http://www.thesocializers.com. He uses insights from social data to activate brand experiences for consumers and is focused on relationship as core source of driving brand growth and awareness. He is an early developer in the social data space and has been introducing brands to social media monitoring since 2009.

Nathaniel is a hands-on professional in the social data intelligence space. He has worked with clients such as Clarks Shoes, Inter-IKEA, Unilever, Ogilvy, JWT, Publicis, P&G and many more setting up social media command centers and training brand/agency staff in best-practice social data insight work. 

Most recently, he personally directed an on-site 12 month project researching conversations in multiple languages for Clarks Shoes. As part of this project, he developed insight from social data and traditional research on over 40 major footwear brands.

4: Struan Lloyd, Head of APAC, CME Group Global Repository Services

South African Struan Lloyd, who resides in Singapore, is the most senior member of global electronic trading venue giant CME Group in Singapore, heading the company’s highly instrumental trade repository division for the entire Asia Pacific region, spanning from South East Asia to Australia.

Struan Lloyd’s global institutional experience within the interbank and exchange sectors of the FX industry which face OTC derivatives companies is vast and established, as he began his career at Citigroup in London in 2002, at that time the world’s largest interbank FX dealer by market share. Struan’s position for six years was Clusterisation and FX Option Manager, before he moved to HSBC where he spent two years working with FX and PM Option Confirmations, managin the teams at the firm’s Canary Wharf head office.

In 2010, Struan Lloyd was appointed Director at Morgan Stanley in London, managing the bank’s entire FX operations, before moving to Singapore in 2011 to become VP at Credit Suisse FX, IRS, Equity and Credit Confirmation teams. 

Joining CME Group in 2017, Struan Lloyd became responsible for product management and revenue growth/retention. He has tremendous expertise in G20 reporting, post trade services and OTC markets.

This conference will be of paramount importance to professionals wishing to increase their reach and broaden their client and partner base to the very high levels that London can offer.

See you there!