Glen Sargeant

Product Manager, Buy Side FX
Flextrade

Glen has worked in the foreign exchange industry for more than 25 years. He spent 19 years with Schroder Investment Management - the last 10 as Head of Trading, FX - with a primary focus on execution excellence and performance monitoring. He managed the development of an in-house TCA tool before independent offerings were available; this was used to demonstrate the trading desk’s value to the business. At FlexTrade Glen is responsible for the product management of the company’s buy-side FX and TCA products. Glen will be joining the 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?’ on 14th September.

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?