Americas Trading Conference 2023

The Americas Trading Conference, organised by the FIX Trading Community, took place on 18 October in New York, USA. The full-day event provided a series of panel sessions across a two-stream agenda, as well as an interactive programme in which leading industry experts discussed the current market needs and exchanged their knowledge and experience.

The conference agenda included but was not limited to the following topics:

• Post-Trade: The Race to 2024 & Beyond
• Trading and Automation: The Need for Speed
• Orchestra Update – A Pit-Stop Overview of FIX Tools
• Digital Assets: Choosing the Right Lane
• FIX Past, Present and Future

Elena Trescheva, Program Manager at Exactpro, and Thomas Toller, Managing Director, Exactpro USA, joined panel discussions that ran in parallel.

Panel: FIX Time Trials: Quick-Fire Round on FIX-Driven Solutions

Elena Trescheva,
Program Manager, Exactpro

Five speakers in the driving seat, four laps around the track explained who they are, what they do, what industry challenges they help solve and how they use FIX to help firms cross the winning line.

Moderator: Laurence Jones, FIX Trading Community

Speakers:

• Elena Trescheva, Program Manager, Exactpro
• Scott Richard, VP - Global Head of Sales & Strategy, S3
• Jon Butler, CEO & Co-Founder, Velox
• Ovidiu Campean, Director, Global Head of Product, LSEG

Panel: Monitoring, Onboarding, Simulation & Testing - Citius, Altius, Fortius

Thomas Toller,
Managing Director, Exactpro USA
Moderator

Thomas Toller, Managing Director, Exactpro USA, moderated the panel discussion "Monitoring, Onboarding, Simulation & Testing - Citius, Altius, Fortius!" with speakers Amy May, Morgan Stanley, Michael Smith, LSEG, Jan Hoenisch, BlackRock, Gabino Roche, Saphyre.

Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. The firm’s clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Exactpro’s area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, improving scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro’s tools and approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a new level of efficiency, system exploration and test coverage for numerous business cases, in finance and beyond.