Markets ConversatION

This week's Quick Takes has Amir discussing "Most Active Names in Credit and Equity Derivatives – August 2023" and Chris telling us more about how "Brexit continues to impact EUR Swaps market share for CCPs and SEFs".

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This week's Quick Takes has Amir discussing "What’s New in CCP Disclosures – 2Q23?" and Chris telling us more about "JPY TONA Futures: A Rising Star in the RFR Market."

https://www.clarusft.com/whats-new-in-ccp-disclosures-2q23/

https://www.clarusft.com/jpy-tona-futures-a-rising-star-in-the-rfr-market/

Financial institutions play a critical role in ensuring market integrity and protecting investors by monitoring trading activities. They do this by employing powerful algorithms and machine learning techniques designed to identify suspicious patterns and anomalies in trading data. Through trading surveillance teams, financial institutions can detect potential market abuse, insider trading, and other regulatory violations.

Enrico will help us understand the practices that model risk teams develop, and he will shed light on the regulatory landscape and discuss how technology continues to shape this ever-evolving field.

On today’s episode, we’re discussing the role of Artificial Intelligence in financial services

Our guests today, Riccardo Bernini from ION’s LIST Professional Services, will help us understand how the Financial Services Industry is undergoing a major transformation due to the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is being used in a variety of ways to automate everyday tasks, provide more sophisticated advice, detect fraud, score credit, and manage portfolios along with handling personalized services and back-office operations. As AI continues to advance, financial services organizations must embrace the technology in order to gain a competitive edge and create new opportunities for growth.

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Since the financial crisis of 2008, the FCM market has undergone remarkable transformations, adapting to new regulations, market volatility, and advancements in technology. Our guests today will shed light on how these changes have shaped the FCM industry's resilience and have provided a foundation for growth.

Bruce Roberts is part of the global management team in cleared derivatives and global business development at ION.

Will Mitting is the founder and CEO of Acuiti, a research platform that provides insights and operational trends on cleared derivatives.

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) guidelines help investors screen investment opportunities based on responsible corporate policies. On today’s episode, Steven Strange from ION Markets will explain how technology can play a significant role in helping the financial markets overcome the "ESG-data conundrum."

The "ESG-data conundrum" refers to the challenges of effectively collecting, analyzing, and utilizing ESG data for investment decision-making. Steven will also share some insight on why it’s important for these new processes to be in place and how asset managers can leverage cloud technology to manage this data overload.

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Our guest speaker, Bob Cioffi from ION’s Equities Division, will help us understand why cloud computing is a rapidly growing trend in the financial services. He’ll explain how cloud computing providers offer a wide range of services which can help financial institutions to improve their efficiency, reduce their costs, and improve their security.

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In this episode, our guest Joe Guerrero from the Foreign Exchange division at ION will be discussing the ISO 20022, a global messaging standard for financial transactions.

The ISO 20022 replaces the widely used ISO 15022 and addresses some of the current limitations by enabling a new messaging language and protocols for the exchange of electronic data between financial institutions, market infrastructures, and other parties involved in payments processing.

About Our Guest Joe Guerrero

Joe started his career as a software developer, but quickly moved into more of a business role working as an account manager in a small American FinTech company. From account management Joe moved into a Support Manager role, ultimately becoming a Project Manager.

He then transitioned to the client side, working for a bank, as a senior business analyst in the credit derivatives world. He eventually returned to his prior company, Wall Street Systems, as a product manager working mainly in FX and back office, but also implementing new regulations that ensured more transparency and controls in the financial services in response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008.

After Wall Street Systems was acquired by ION, he has been focused on both integrating legacy Wall Street systems and on new and re-engineered ION products.

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Will Mitting, CEO of Acuiti, and Bruce Roberts from ION's Markets Division will discuss post-trade improvements since COVID, and how the expansion of digital trade exposed significant technology shortcomings: from outdated infrastructure to fragmented risk systems and the challenge of incorporating new asset classes, like cryptocurrency, into aging, legacy systems.

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In this episode we take a deep dive at how Execution Management Systems, or EMS, are adapting to meet the evolving demands of their users, and we discuss EMS challenges and trends in the Fixed Income space.

To help us understand all about EMS and its impact in the industry, our guest is Celina Costa from ION’s Fixed Income Product Management Team.