FX Markets Australia

FX Markets Australia 2020 will serve as the industry benchmark conference for professionals to gain insights from expert speakers and peers on the latest industry best practices, strategies to enhance performance, and to discuss the pressing issues they are facing.

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FX Markets Australia

 

Webinar 2020 Programme

 

2020 Key Themes Include:

  • Global economic uncertainties and currency volatility

  • Benchmark reform and the impact on clearing FX

  • Innovative strategies in algo and quant applications in FX

  • Meeting new hedging challenges – how should corporate treasurers prepare

  • Managing FX exposure and investing in FX for superannuation funds

  • FX Global Code of Conduct - practical execution issues

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Advisory Board

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Mark Aarons

Head of Portfolio Risk and Solutions

Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC)

Mark joined VFMC in April 2018 as Head of Investment Risk.  He is also currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies at Monash University.   Prior to his current role, Mark was Head of FICC Structuring at the National Australia Bank from 2010 to 2017, where he built a leading securitisation swap business in both Australia and the UK.  From 2004 to 2010 Mark held various roles at NAB in both Front Office and Market Risk.

Mark holds Bachelor degrees in Law and Science (both with Honours) from Monash University and a PhD in Mathematics jointly from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Free University of Berlin, Germany.  Mark is also the co-author of a recent book on securitisation swaps which was published by Wiley Finance in March 2019.

Michael Clavin

Head of liquidity, fixed income and markets

First State Super

Michael’s key responsibilities include management and oversite of the Funds Cash and Fixed Income exposures, currency overlays, securities finance program as well as the funds centralised dealing function.  Michael is also responsible for the day to day running of the Funds internally managed derivative overlays and cash and short term credit mandates. 

Michael has over 16 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry and Prior to joining FTC, Michael was employed at JP Morgan as a Project Manager from June 2003 to 2007. Key role responsibilities included successful completion and implementation of projects relating to cash flow management, unit pricing and accounting.

Michael has a Masters’ degree in both Business

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Dominique d'Avrincourt

Investment manager

HESTA

Dominique d’Avrincourt joined HESTA in 2015 as an Investment Manager – Equities & Currency. Her main responsibilities include investment manager research and portfolio construction, and managing the alpha program for the listed equity investments and currency overlay program for listed equities. She joined the Superannuation industry in 2013 as a Senior Investment Specialist at Vic Super. She started her career at Goldman Sachs JBWere in 2004 in portfolio strategy before joining Merrill Lynch as an institutional equities research analyst and subsequently CBA Institutional Equities in a similar role.

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Alex Joiner

Chief economist

IFM Investors

Dr Alex Joiner is the Chief Economist at IFM Investors and also sits on its Investment Committee. He is responsible for the firm’s economic, financial market, policy and geopolitical analysis and forecasting that underpin its investment and portfolio management processes. He represents IFM with domestic and global clients as well as with governments, central banks, financial institutions and corporates. He has over 15 years professional experience and prior to joining IFM Investors, Alex was the Chief Economist (Australian & New Zealand) at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a senior economist at ANZ Bank and an economist at the Victorian Department of Treasury. He holds a First Class honours degree in Economics and a PhD in Econometrics from Monash University. Alex is a committee member of Australian Business Economists and sits on the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment Macroeconomic Risks Advisory Group.

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Justin Lo

Portfolio manager

Sunsuper

Justin is an investment manager within the fixed income and currency team at Sunsuper. Justin joined Sunsuper in October 2013 and has over 11 years of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm, Justin worked at Legal & General Investment Management (London), J.P. Morgan (Sydney) and State Street (Sydney). Justin holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) at Macquarie University, Masters of Financial Analysis at the University of New South Wales, is a CFA Charterholder, Certified FRM and Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst.

Taylor Ng

Manager, currency & portfolio analytics

NGS Super

Taylor is part of the internal investments team at NGS Super. He is responsible for managing currencies and provide insights for asset allocation decisions through various macroeconomics and quantitative analytics.

Throughout his career he has also involved in managing asset classes such as equities, fixed income and alternatives.

Taylor has over 12 years of experience in the Australian Superannuation Industry having worked at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ING and REST Industry Super prior to his role at NGS Super.

Taylor has graduated with degrees in Bachelor of Commerce (honours) from the University of Melbourne (majoring in Actuarial Science and Finance) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sydney.

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Theo Vosinidis

Head of investment risk and compliance

CBUS SUPER

Theo and his team are responsible for implementation of the risk and compliance framework in line with Cbus’ risk appetite. The team identifies new regulatory obligations that may impact Investments, undertake risk training, as well as Investment incident root cause analysis, operational due diligence of external investment managers, undertake risk assessments of new Investment initiatives and are responsible for internal and external mandate pre & post trade compliance.

Sponsors

Allens is a leading international law firm serving clients throughout Australia and Asia. Together with Linklaters, our global network spans 40 offices across 28 countries. The alignment of our complementary practices enables us to offer an integrated service to clients, with one point of contact, a unified team drawn from the best resources of each firm, and consistent quality advice and support. 

Our derivatives specialists advise superannuation funds, banks, multinational corporations, securities firms and government entities on all legal, regulatory and documentation issues relating to derivatives in Australia and worldwide. We combine local knowledge with technical excellence and commercial insight, to provide clear navigation through complex structured transactions, and apply a global perspective to regulatory matters including global benchmark reform projects. 

Our global benchmark reform team comprises experts in loans, capital markets, derivatives, structured products, competition, regulatory relationships and dispute resolution. We have been working with clients on developments relating to IBORs around the world, including ISDA since 2016 on its global consultations in relation to LIBOR, and we maintain active involvement in the key international industry working groups. Our deep expertise in products linked to new rates and understanding of technical developments surrounding the creation of LIBOR replacement rates, informs the strategies we are now formulating for our Australian clients. 

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals.  The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.  In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.  With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.

LCH. The Markets’ Partner

LCH builds strong relationships with credit, equity, fixed income, FX and rates market participants to help drive superior performance and deliver best-in-class risk management. With our accumulated experience and expertise, we are uniquely positioned to help members and clients increase capital and operational efficiency, while adhering to an expanding and complex set of cross-border regulations. Working closely with our stakeholders, we have helped the market transition to central clearing and introduced an array of innovative enhancements, including compression, sponsored clearing, credit index options clearing, contracts for differences clearing, the launch of LCH Spider, our portfolio margining tool, and LCH SwapAgent for managing uncleared swaps. When combined with an uncompromising commitment to service delivery, it's no surprise that LCH is the natural choice of the world’s leading market participants.

 

LMAX Exchange - the leading global Institutional exchange for spot FX.

LMAX Exchange operates multiple global institutional FX exchanges and an FCA regulated MTF. Our central limit order book model delivers efficient market structure and transparent, consistent execution to all market participants, including funds, banks, proprietary trading firms, brokerages and asset managers.

Trading on limit order liquidity from top tier global banks and non-banks, gives Institutions complete price transparency with precise control over their execution strategy and 100% of their trading costs.

Access the LMAX Exchange Institutional pool of limit order liquidity via your execution aggregator (just ask your Bank) or direct.

Download our TCA White paper - an in-depth analysis and comparison of common FX execution quality metrics between ‘last look’ vs firm liquidity and its financial consequences.

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LMAX Group - the global, diversified financial technology company.

The LMAX Group is a global financial technology company and the leading independent operator of multiple institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. 

The Group’s portfolio includes LMAX Exchange (institutional FX exchange and FCA regulated MTF), LMAX Digital (GFSC regulated institutional spot crypto currency exchange) and LMAX Global (FCA and CySec regulated brokers). 

LMAX Group is unique in offering market access to all FX customer segments in over 100 countries, transforming the world’s largest asset class to an open, transparent marketplace with fair, precise & consistent execution.   

Servicing funds, banks, asset managers and retail brokerages in over 100 countries, LMAX Group builds and runs its own high performance, ultra-low latency global exchange infrastructure which includes matching engines in London (LD4), New York (NY4) and Tokyo (TY3). 

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Founded in 2012, Tradepoint Systems provides foreign exchange trading technology and trade simulation and testing software to the financial services community. Our solutions are used globally by some of the world’s largest financial services institutions.

We build innovative, differentiating products and services that meet the nuanced requirements of our client’s businesses and satisfy the needs of their end-users, whether traders, managers, developers or support staff. We believe that by designing and building systems collaboratively with our clients, we’re able to combine our own broad experience in financial services technology with their intimate understanding of the day-to-day user experience.

Our team is made up of the principals and core technologists from Aegisoft, a technology vendor that pioneered FX aggregation and trade simulation tools in the early 2000s. We’ve worked together for over twenty years, building trading technology solutions.

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What delegates said about FX Markets conferences

An important conference for currency specialists - a must attend event
Managing Director, Global Liquid Strategies, QIC
Very good quality speakers
Associate Director, Financial Institution and Government, Mizuho Bank, Ltd
Very intellectual and informative speaker from a wide range of industries which was beneficial as it provided the audience with a broad exposure of information.
Financer Manager, Qantas Airways Limited
Professional, in touch with the market and its participants and keen to promote integrity and best practice as a value proposition for the benefit of the entire industry.
Head of Compliance, FX and Rates, ANZ Bank
This was an informative and relevant conference, with high quality industry - leading speakers that was well attended and ran smoothly.
Executive Director, Institutional FX Sales, Common Wealth Bank of Australia
Keynote speaker attracted crowd and focused on key market trend.
Head of Corporate Audit Australia, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Well run and informative
Head Corporate Treasury & Risk, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
I found all the presentations of interest. I was pleased with the different streams in the afternoon. this really helped me to attend the more relevant sessions
Rob Wensak, Director, Treasury Trading, WESTERN UNION
A very well balanced show and liked the introduction of more buy-side participants this year
Mark Davison, Managing Partner, CORONAM EC LTD
High quality participants, very interesting topics being debated - top event
Thomas Morten Jensen, Senior Analyst, NORDEA
A valuable opportunity to tap into the cutting-edge developments in the FX industry and network with industry leaders
Justin Gillespie, FX Fund Manager, ESSEMTIUM CAPITAL
Excellent event. Very interesting speakers and material presented. Highly enjoyable, met some great people and it was very professionally run
Saul Zaidman, Portfolio Manager, VIVA GLOBAL
I was impressed with the quality of the content, the high level of the attendees and the interactive networking opportunities
Stephane Malrait, Global Head of eCommerce and Innovation for Financial Markets, ING FINANCIAL MARKETS

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