Gavin Little-Gill

Which new technologies are set to transform the financial and asset management industries?
As tech budgets are cut, how do you navigate the numerous tech initiatives and best assess desk solutions and their potential for interconnectivity and scalability?
Have recent pushes towards cloud-based technology changed how we assess the conundrum of buy vs. build?
What are the benefits and results of aligning domain knowledge and workflow expertise?
How can you attract and retain coders, quants, and data scientists to ensure you can operate in a today’s data-fuelled financial markets?

What automation capabilities have shown significant promise in enhancing interoperability across various systems, and how do they contribute to streamlining processes?
Buy, build, hybrid: how is the tech best tailored to suit the unique needs and intricacies of fixed income trading desks?
What are the regulatory compliance and risk management implications?
What are the next areas that are ripe for automation?
As desks move towards multi-asset, where are the hurdles for automation?

How can you implement the latest pre-trade tools to better analyze execution performance and minimize market impact?
How can we better democratize data and make instrument data more accessible to smaller managers?
How can you improve the accuracy and analysis of data and how can you best provide quantitative feedback to improve execution?
Market data and associated costs: How can we strike the balance between specialised fixed income data and costs concerns?
How can we use TCA data outputs to drive insight at the pre-trade stage?

How do we make TCA work for fixed income and what are some of the more beneficial data sources outside of time stamps e.g. responsiveness of brokers or average quote time?
How do you overcome challenges with TCA such as lack of data availability in Emerging Markets?
How can you integrate in-house tools with your counterparties and vendors to provide effective data analytics and TCA?
How can TCA be fed back to provide more insight at the pre-trade stage?
Where do we take TCA from here? Assessing the future capabilities and uses of TCA output data

Main Day 1 - June 13th