Glen Sargeant, Product Manager, Buy Side FX at Flextrade
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Glen Sargeant


Product Manager, Buy Side FX
Flextrade

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Glen.

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Buy Side Only Platform Evaluation Day- September 13th 2016

Friday, December 9th, 2016


13:15 Platform Introduction: Meet the platforms - What are the key differences between the new initiatives and how can they help you overcome the liquidity drought?

Platforms include: Deltix, Edgewater Markets, Flextrade, MarketFactory, Quod Financial, Thomson Reuters, TradingScreen

  • An introduction to each platform today - What is their USP that is not offered anywhere else?
  • How can the initiatives help you source new liquidity pools in constrained markets?
  • Where are the new platforms up to in their onboarding life cycle and how successful has the process been?
  • What different eTrading protocols are available to the buy side and what benefits do they bring?

Rising Above The Current Market Order – 14th September 2016

Monday, January 9th, 2017


14:15 Panel Discussion: Adopting Next Generation Best Execution Practices: What Crucial Pre Trade Insights Can Help You To Make More Informed Trading Decisions, And How Can You Exploit Next Generation Algos To Sharpen Your Trading Edge?

  • How are firms looking to take their post-trade data and feed it back into the pre-trade decision tools with minimal rework?
  • What are the crucial insights pre-trade TCA can give your FX trading desk?
  • What methods of algo trading are important for you to prosper in today’s electronic FX world?
  • How can sell side expert shops use algorithms to offer a more cost effective service to the buy side?
  • Next generation algos - how can algos be moved from currency pairs to multi currency basket trades to offer more effective execution of a large number of instruments?
  • Moving towards the ‘super algo’: Is machine learning – or AI more broadly –a holy grail for investment, merely a new, advanced gizmo to supplement your existing toolkit, or is it simply a case of clever marketing?