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DAY ONE: 12 September 2007
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| 08.00 | Registration, morning coffee and tea
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| 08.50 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| | Kevin Birkett, Director - Asset Management, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), UAE
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| 09.05 | Exclusive Interview
Examining the top trends shaping the global funds industry
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| | Moderator: Kirby Daley, Head of Sales & Capital Introductions, Fimat Alternative Investment Solutions - Asia, Hong Kong Stefano Russo, Chief Executive Officer, Renaissance Institutional Management (UK)
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| 09.35 | Keynote Address
Asian opportunities: Risks and rewards
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| 10.05 | Keynote Address
The future outlook of managing Asian institutional assets
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| | Kurt Winkelmann, Managing Director, Global Investment Strategies, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
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| 10.35 | Academic Address
Examining dynamic trading strategies to significantly enhance
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| | Jayaram Muthuswamy, Associate Processor of Finance, Singapore Management University, Singapore
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| 11.00 | Morning Refreshments
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| 11.20 | Chairperson opening
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| THE EVOLUTION AND GROWTH OF ELECTRONIC TRADING IN ASIA |
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| 11.25 | Keynote Address
Evaluating the major regional trends driving electronic trading and pointers towards the evolution of the product in Asia
- How electronic trading is contributing to a more efficient marketplace for investors.
- How technology is changing the relationship between investors and brokers.
- What should investment companies do to prepare for and capitalise on these trends
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| | Richard Hills, Global Head of Electronic Services, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, UK
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| 12.00 | Special Keynote
Examining the likely make-up of the market in 5 years time and how this will vary in different geographical regions
- How electronic trading systems can expand trading volumes while creating a more efficient marketplace.
- Examining the evolving equity market and its impact on electronic trading strategies and solutions in Asia.
- What must you do to ensure your business benefits from these changes?
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| | Gyan Newman, Director and Head of Ecommerce for Asia Pacific, Barclays Capital, Singapore
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| 12.30 | Working on new ways to help the buy-side to make the most of their electronic trading product
- Examining the steps taken to encourage the buy-side order flow to pushed through ETSs
- Using the sell-side traders more as coaches in algorithmic trading systems
- Moving on to the next best system to boost performance
- Developing systems to suit buy-side needs better.
- Understanding the latest developments to ensure the ROI.
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| | Matt McKeith, Head of Equity Dealing, First State Investments , Hong Kong
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| 13.00 | Lunch
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| ELECTRONIC TRADING WITH AN IDEAL TRADE AND A GLOBAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
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| 14.00 | Opportunities opened by heterogeneous global regulatory infrastructures
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| | Endre Markos, Director of Bloomberg Law - Asia Pacific, Bloomberg LP
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| 14.30 | The impact and direction on electronic trading to exchanges in Asia Pacific
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| | Ronald Newell, Senior Vice President & Head of Market Services Management, Singapore Stock Exchange, Singapore
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| 15.15 | Algorithmic trading in the global foreign exchange market
- The changing shape of global FX market
- The regional FX picture
- The growth in e-traded spot FX
- Tools and strategies for enhancing FX services for customers
- The advent and growth of algorithmic trading in FX
- The algorithmic value chain
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| | Mark Monahan, CEO of Electronic Brokerage - Asia Pacific, ICAP
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| 15.30 | Speed networking
 A Terrapinn innovation, this is the revolutionary, exciting, quick and non-pressured way to meet fellow conference delegates and industry peers in one 30-min session. These brief meetings are the starting point for conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long-lasting and profitable business relationships begin.
- Meet... Move on … meet… move on… meet!
- Exchange business cards with fellow conference delegates and industry peers
- Don’t forget to bring lots of business cards, a box or two will do!
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| 16.15 | Shared Afternoon Coffee and Networking Break
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| ACHIEVING BEST PRACTICE IN ELECTRONIC TRADE EXECUTION |
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| 16.45 | Strategy trading and fiduciary duty of the trader to seek
execution quality
- How to ensure best execution capabilities through a study on trading costs and best execution
- What are the fiduciary responsibilities to attain best execution?
- How poor execution can impair ability to generate “alpha”
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| 17.25 | Sourcing liquidity and delivering best execution through optimal trading strategies
- Selecting a system that accounts for the spread of liquidity
- Automation of the markets and its impact on liquidity
- How to establish urgency, risk aversion and the implementation of goal to attain good price benchmark through optimal trading strategies
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| | Mark Howarth, Managing Director, Thomson Financial, Hong Kong
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| 18.00 | Closing Remarks
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| 18.10 | Cocktail
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DAY TWO: 13 September 2007
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| 08.00 | Registration, morning coffee and tea
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| 08.50 | Chairman Address
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| OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO FURTHER INDUSTRY GROWTH IN ASIA |
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| 09.00 | In the traders briefcase: OMs, DMA, FIX and algorithmic
trading strategies – Is this the complete package?
- Examining the evolution of broker/dealer equity electronic trading
- Employing electronic connectivity to connect to an increasing number of clients
- Is increased automation, such as DMA and algorithmic trading, the key to improving connectivity?
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| | Punit Mittal, Head of Execution Products - GES, BNP Paribas, Japan
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| 09.30 | Algorithmic trading barriers and drivers in Asia
- Understanding the algorithm your broker supplies
- Reviewing and grading various algorithms
- Portfolio-based algorithmic models vs. single stock algorithms
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| 10.00 | Panel Discussion
Conversations with the buy-side: How and when can it really be useful?
- Where does the buy-side find electronic trading most useful?
- What specific order flows are electronic trading systems particularly good for
- Is there a 'best' time to use electronic trading?
- Are there markets in which electronic trading is advantageous for the buy-side?
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| | Frank Holle, Founder – Director, Quant Asset Management, Singapore Rene Raiss, Chief Investment Officer, Precise Asset Management Pte Ltd, Singapore
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| 10.45 | Shared morning coffee and networking break
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| ELECTRONIC TRADING AND ITS IMPACT ON TRADING EFFICIENCY |
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| 11.25 | Increasing use of the latest automated trading systems and
its implications on trading efficiency in Asia
- To what extent have new systems penetrated the Asian market?
- What are the contributions and implications for liquidity?
- Should automated trading be allowed in emerging markets?
- What factors led to the interest in algorithmic trading to allow it starting to pick up in Asia?
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| | Jason Lapping, Head of Program Trading & Electronic Services Asia, Societe Generale Asia Limited
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| 11.55 | Panel Discussion
Multi-asset class trading systems and current opportunities in electronic trading for them in Asia
- Uncovering how to use electronic trading to attain alpha
- Best models for Asian bond market trading platforms
- Assessing the impact of electronic trading for listed derivatives
- How to serve institutional clients across the foreign exchange markets and meeting the diverse requirements of active traders
- Recent specific strategy examples implemented by institutional portfolio managers
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| | Nigel O'Shea, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Global Electronic Trading Pty Ltd, Australia Kevan Hull, Head of Marketing & Business Development, Saxo Capital Markets Pte Ltd Shams Karim, Chief Executive Officer, Nirvana Financial Solutions, USA Tarun Anand, Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy and Head of Sales, Asia, FXMarketSpace
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| 13.00 | Lunch
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| THE CRYSTAL BALL: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE TO ACHIEVE SUPERIOR EXECUTION AND EVEN MORE TRADE EFFICIENCY? |
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| 14.30 | Examining the rapid growth of dark pools of liquidity in Asia: smarter executions and lower trading costs
- What is driving future development in this area?
- Expansion into different asset classes
- Will there be more market liquidity?
- Will volatility be less prominent?
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| | Olivier Thiriet, Head of Asia-Pacific Advanced Execution Products, Credit Suisse , Japan
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| 15.00 | Panel Discussion
Conversations with the sell-side: Significant challenges to growth
- Why has the buy-side not fully embraced the electronic trading story yet?
- Providers have work to do to educate their users how to maximize electronic trading results.
- How to remove the buy-side perception that electronic trading is primarily used as a productivity tool rather than performance boosting tool
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| | Moderator: Felix L. Adam, Chief Executive Officer, ACT Currency Partner AG, Switzerland Richard Hills, Global Head of Electronic Services, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, UK Weng Cheah, Head of Asia-Pacific – Electronic trading systems, Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong Shuya Kekke, Executive Director Equities – Execution, Goldman Sachs, Japan Brook Teeter, Director Equity Sales - Alternative Execution Services, Credit Suisse
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| 15.45 | How are the skill sets for trading professionals evolving on both buy-side and sell-side?
- Assessing how the required skill sets are changing in the wake of increased regulation and changing market structure
- How is dealer remuneration changing as the buy-side dealer becomes more empowered and more closely aligned to his/her sell-side counterparts?
- What will be the profile of the trader of the future?
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| | Felix L. Adam, Chief Executive Officer, ACT Currency Partner AG, Switzerland
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| 16.15 | Close of conference – afternoon refreshments and Speed
networking
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