London 2016
Guy Simpkin, Bats Europe – The Difficulties of Business Development
Guy Simpkin - BATS Europe Perhaps the finest leader [Britain] has ever had once suggested that the three hardest things a man can do is, one, to climb a wall that's leaning towards him, [another is] to kiss a girl that’s leaning away from him, and the third one is to...
Scott O’Malia, ISDA – The Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath
Scott O'Malia - ISDA When I first took the job, people said, ‘Scott, you know, it hasn’t been all that busy. You might want to think about getting a hobby.’ Well, the financial crisis hit. We had to implement Dodd-Frank. I had no need for hobbies. I had no time for...
Tim Edwards, S&P Dow Jones – The Relative Importance of Skill, Conviction and Blind Luck
Tim Edwards - S&P Dow Jones I believe that the next big trend in our industry is going to be far more customized, far more bespoke, and it’s all going to be available at low cost because of technology. When Google was readying for its IPO in 2004, employees were...
Robert Russell, Divento Financials – Pathways into the Financial Services Industry
Robert Russell - Divento I told him my name, my age — he fell asleep. He had two photos on his desk, one of his daughter wearing a tennis uniform and one of his son wearing a martial arts uniform. So I told him that while I was traveling I had subsidized my income...
Anthony Pereira, Percentile – A Technical Ride Through Two Market Crashes
Anthony Pereira - Percentile What [the dot-com bubble] made clear to me was that the marketplace and what was actually going on in the world of software development were two very different things. All Anthony Pereira, founder and CEO of Percentile, had wanted to do...
Fraser Bell, BSO – Change Is The Only Constant
Fraser Bell - BSO Technology is affecting everyone. Just simple things we take for granted have a massive, massive infrastructure behind them, a massive amount of money behind them, and a massive amount of intellectual capital to make technology seem very simple. In...
Cathy Lyall, Minnamurra Consulting – 30 Years of Change
Cathy Lyall - Minnamurra Consulting Ltd The ethics and ethos had changed in the markets — it was flipped completely on its head,” Lyall said. “It was me first, company second, and I’d like to say the client was third, but I think the client was out of the equation...
Matt McFarland, CBOE – Business Development Challenges for Derivatives Exchanges
Matt McFarland - CBOE I would say that derivatives can be financial weapons of mass destruction if they are used improperly. If they’re used properly they can be risk-reducing tools rather than risk-enhancing tools. This year the CBOE opened a London office in an...
Philip Stafford, Financial Times – “The Most Valuable Commodity I Know of is Information”
Philip Stafford - Financial Times A market without information doesn’t trade, doesn’t move anywhere. It’s illiquid. Nothing happens and everybody goes away — [that’s] the last thing anyone wants. So information ends up being the most critical thing of all. Philip...
Steve Woodyatt, Object Trading – Blurring the buy and sell sides
Steve Woodyatt - Object Trading Banks are unbundling customers that no longer fit their profitability criteria,” Woodyatt said. “Whole customer bases are moving about to different suppliers and some are finding they just don’t have a home at all. Over the last 10...
David Norman, Essex University – What Sets Graduates Apart?
David Norman - Essex University The industry feels like it has lost its way. In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s London Event, David Norman, a lecturer at Essex University and Queen Mary University of London, discusses the current landscape of the industry and...
Steve Grob, Fidessa — The Innovator’s Dilemma
Steve Grob - Fidessa Group plc What are the chances the firm you work for will be around in five or 10 years? In our video from JLN’s MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Event in London 2016, Steve Grob, director of group strategy with Fidessa, talks about why...
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