TradingTech Summit MENA
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Agenda
8:15am
Registration and Sponsor Networking
9:00am
Welcome Remarks from the Chief Executive Officer of Bahrain Bourse: Sh. Khalifa Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa
Welcome Remarks from the Secretary General of the Arab Federation of Capital Markets: Rami El Dokany
Welcome Remarks from the President & Chief Content Officer of A-Team Group: Andrew Delaney
9:10am
Regulator Keynote: Trading Across MENA – An opportunity to transform a greenfield site into a modern trading environment that can compete in the race for investment
9:30am
Panel: Market data and beyond: Data integration and management in a world of Big Data
- How are market participants ensuring they have access to the right market data and other information services to meet their trading needs and regulatory obligations?
- What are today’s best practices for integrating and managing market data services?
- What opportunity is there for regional players to adopt cloud-delivered services?
10:20am
Keynote (sponsored): Beyond cash equities – Practical considerations for embracing new markets, asset classes and financial products
- Which MENA financial centres are leading the drive toward more sophisticated products, markets and structures?
- Does regulation have a role?
- Best approaches to market access: local vs. regional vs. global
- How are firms adding new products like ETFs, and asset classes like fixed income, FX and even crypto as they move away from straight equities?
10.45am
Panel: Exchange systems, DMA hosting and connectivity
- What approaches are the region’s exchange taking to trading platform modernisation?
- What options to trading firms have for hosting to support their DMA systems?
- How are firms ensuring the integrity of their data connections for orders and market data?
- What tools can firms use to ensure their connections are performant?
- How are firms dealing with adding cloud to the mix of connectivity
11:30am
Morning Break and Networking
12:00pm
Presentation
12:15pm
Panel: Addressing market abuse – Lessons learned from implementing surveillance systems for voice and electronic trading communications
- How are market participants addressing market abuse concerns across the region?
- What has been the regulators’ stance on market abuse to date?
- What’s the outlook for 2024/25?
- What are the key considerations for addressing insider trading and other trading-related financial crime?
- What commercial options are open to surveillance teams in the MENA region?
1.00pm
Panel: Next-generation OMS & EMS: OEMS and smart order routing
- How are pan-regional firms deploying OMS and EMS systems?
- What are the relative merits of local/regional vs. global solutions?
- How does the advent of the combined OEMS impact connectivity issues?
- Which markets are driving OMS/EMS/OEMS adoption in the region?
- What does the end-game look like for OMS/EMS/SOR?
1:45pm
Presentation
2:00pm
Panel: Modernising the post-trade work flow
- What is the impact for the global industry of moving to T+1 Settlement?
- How is MENA affected?
- What are the operational challenges of moving to a shortened settlement cycle and what do firms need to do to prepare?
- What is the role of distributed ledger technologies?
- How can automation and innovative technologies help improve post trade processes and workflows?
- What are the expected benefits for firms of moving to T+1 and what does the future look like?
2.45pm
Closing, Lunch and Networking
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