Two weeks to go: Meet the panelists!

Join us on May 7 at The Ned in London where you will meet some of the most important senior thought leaders, all from the electronic trading high society

On May 7, 2019, over 120 senior professional trading executives representing every important sector of the industry from hedge funds and wealth management to proprietary trading houses, technologists and prime of prime brokerages will meet at The Ned in London.

Thought leadership is vital in today’s rapidly evolving electronic trading industry, and the FinanceFeeds Professional Trading Thought Leadership Conference is the first of its kind in the world which matches the upper echelons of the electronic trading industry with a very high caliber new audience.

It is time to elevate the quality of your B2B clients. London’s professional trading sector is a perfect audience for the institutional FX business of today. 

We look forward to seeing you at THE NED on May 7 for the most important B2B conference in the industry, introducing you to a new and lucrative high class audience!

Attendees will meet C-level decision makers and trading heads from London’s finest high net worth wealth management and institutional FX firms, including

  • Portfolio management companies
  • Hedge Funds
  • Non-bank market makers
  • Professional trading houses
  • Wealth management companies with long established client bases
  • Proprietary trading houses
  • Top tier electronic brokerages and large FX firms
  • Prime brokerages
  • Market integration specialists
  • High net worth professional traders

Thought leadership and engagement with potential new partners from the established, high end trading sector is the paramount focus of this new and exclusive event.

In an industry first, these are not sponsored panels. Quite the contrary. We selected professionals that YOU would like to engage with, and whose leadership principles are interesting.

Here are the global business leaders that will speak on our panel at this world-leading event 

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 tehcnology 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 Rotter

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.

Struan Lloyd

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!

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