Markets ConversatION: Recent Episodes
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Markets Conversation is an ION podcast where we discuss topics of importance to capital markets participants with product owners, subject matter experts, and industry leaders.
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 and Enrico Melchioni, 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 Prost-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.
On this episode, we discuss how technology has not only transformed the trading life cycle, but has also presented challenges for risk managers.
Technology and automation have been the great leap forward for many industries, especially finance. And with us to discuss the trading life cycle and how different types of margins affect the profitability of trades is our guest, Alex Lamb.
Alex has been in finance for many years and he's worked in all facets of the trading industry, helping create and improve software companies and products, but what's been keeping him busy lately is tackling risk management and surveillance.
In this episode, we discuss how the Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk, more commonly known as SA-CCR, applies to over-the-counter derivatives (OTC), exchange-traded derivatives, and FX.
SA-CCR is rapidly becoming the standard across the globe for bank regulatory capital, replacing CEM or the Current Exposure Method.
What this means for market participants and global markets and products, is that all this is complex and varied, and to help us break this all down, our guests today are Chris Barnes and Amir Khwaja from ION Markets.
In this episode, we discuss some modern challenges to FX traders, exchanges and their software: specifically, centralized liquidity and fragmented APIs. We’ll explore what is behind these challenges, and how firms can best manage them.
Our guest, Eugene Markman, from the Foreign Exchange Markets Division at ION, discusses issues such as low latency resulting from these centralized liquidity pools, and why API fragmentation has proliferated in the market.
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In this episode, we'll take a closer look at how banks, firms, and brokers are leveraging technology to manage risk amidst the challenges of inflation, global conflict, and more. Joining us in our conversation today is our special guest, from ION's cleared derivatives management, is Bruce Roberts, who's headquartered in London.
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In this episode, we're following up on the CFTC round table that focused on the proposal by cryptocurrency exchange platform, FTX to bypass FCMs with a direct clearing model. It was a lively discussion with a cross section of industries, firms, and agencies represented, and a chance to learn more about the implications of FTX's proposal. To help us sort all this out and look at the pros and cons of this new proposed arrangement, we are once again joined by Russell Levens, Head of Client Engagement for Derivatives at ION and John Needham, Product Manager for ION Markets.
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In this episode, we dive into the rapidly evolving world of Crypto currency and its effect on the financial markets, specifically derivatives. We discuss how crypto could affect the derivatives market if the CFTC approves a proposal by crypto platform, FTX. This move could reduce the role of FCMs and seriously disrupt the trading status quo. Joining us in conversation are Russell Levens, Head of Client Engagement for Derivatives at ION, and John Needham, Product Manager for ION Markets.