NextGenTrade: Buy-Side Trading for the Future 2010

Mapping Market Direction, Ensuring Liquidity and Best Execution

Building on the strong track record of our truly unique capital markets conferences, marcus evans is proud to present the NextGenTrade 2010 congress. Our dedicated teams have through extensive market research identified the most pressing challenges and priorities facing our buy-side clients and produced a cutting-edge event addressing the critical trading issues presented by the best speakers from across the globe.

We are experiencing fascinating times where markets are changing dramatically that it is vital to keep on top of all developments to remain competitive. Trading will never be the same. Regulatory changes and economical shakeouts have transformed the way market participants interact and trade. Recently the buy-side has started relying on their own trading tools, the sell-side has moved into exchanges territory and, in turn, exchanges are now offering services that were provided by vendors few years ago. Potential pitfalls of this market fragmentation have caused a lot of headache for traders and with the current abundance of trading venues, getting the best price in real time is a real challenge. All parties are awaiting a new regulatory intervention addressing these issues.

The marcus evans NextGenTrade congress will address these pivotal issues from the regulatory as well as the business side and provide the best solution to achieve improved business performance and longevity in a volatile market. It will provide a unique opportunity to hear directly from the buy-side on their challenges, expectations and best practices in order to stay competitive in this evolving market.

Key Topic Areas

The programme for NextGenTrade is determined by continuous and in-depth research with a large number of leading industry professionals. Key issues include:

• Performing best execution under the new MiFID proposals
• Threats and opportunities of high frequency trading
• Dark pools, their regulation and data leakage concerns
• Ensuring best price of a security
• Advanced algo trading strategies and use of news analytics tools
• Efficient transaction cost analysis in the fragmented market
• Facilitating greater liquidity through the choice of the right pools and venues to trade
• Multi-asset trading: Using different trading tools for different types of trade
• Reducing buy-side risks through optimisation of your organisation
• Increasing performance through smart-order routing
• Optimising execution management and enhancing order management systems
• Reducing costs through forthcoming outsourcing strategies