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Continuing its position as one of the capital markets industry’s leading financial-technology conference producers in the U.S. for the past 13 years, TABB Group has assembled one of its strongest programs with experts drawn from the asset management and capital markets to discuss how buy-side and sell-side financial technology are reshaping capital markets ecosystems.
To open FinTech Festival 2019: FinTech and the Future of Capital Markets Ecosystems, Mona Vernon, head of Fidelity Labs Business Incubator at Fidelity Investments, and Sarah Biller, executive director at Vantage Ventures and co-founder of the FinTech Sandbox, will address this year’s audience of more than 450 senior industry executives on “Evolutionary Capital Markets: How to Thrive in Open AI-Powered Platform Economy.” Following their address, Espen Skogen, founder and director, Rocketfin, and James Wooster, COO, Glue42 will give an opening presentation on “Behavior Mining: Finding Alpha in User-Behavior Analysis.”
They will be followed by TABB keynotes, the first by Monica Summerville, director, fintech research, head of TABB Group UK, sharing proprietary research results from TABB’s latest FinTech Adoption survey, discussing the emerging-tech stack in capital markets and highlighting the importance of ecosystems; the second by European market structure analyst Tim Cave, on how European regulations and the rise of Big Tech here and in the Far East are already impacting the US capital markets.
The conference will also include sessions moderated by Larry Tabb. founder and research chairman, and heads of research for fixed income and derivatives, George Bollenbacher and Russell Rhodes, respectively.
Emerging technology is clearly impacting capital markets participants’ choices around market collaboration partners, transaction venues and data, says Summerville, with the industry being transformed through technology, regulatory and market forces, resulting in global capital markets ecosystems that link infrastructure providers, institutional investors, brokers/dealers, service providers, and technology/data providers in innovative ways. Accelerating the rate of change is the convergence of emerging technologies including cloud, artificial intelligence, big data analytics and blockchain. “The industry is leveraging these technologies to create efficiencies and competitive advantage, bringing entirely new business models and revenue opportunities to light. To paraphrase Darwin, it’s not the fittest entities that thrive – it’s those most adaptable to change.”
The Wednesday, November 13 conference at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, from 8:00 am till 6:30 pm, features over 40 speakers on 18 panels in two streams: Innovation in Action: how innovative technology is transforming the workflows and business models within capital markets and asset management today; and The New Capital Markets Tech Stack: how the latest developments in emerging technologies are forming the new tech stack for capital markets.
Tech Stream Topics:
· Data Analytics for the Enterprise: View From the top
· Market Data in the Cloud: The Last Frontier
· Reality of Digital Transformation in Derivatives Trading & Risk Management
· Solution Focus Presentation: Desktop Application Integration: What’s important?
· DLT Consortiums, Platforms and Interoperability: Moving from POC to Production
· Alternative Data and AI: Transforming the Investment Landscape
· The Jargon of Capital Markets Fintech Success
· Regulators’ Take on RegTech and SupTech
Business Stream Topics:
· Humans 2.0: Technology Is our Friend
· Real-World DLT and the Future of Finance
· The Rise of the Corporate VC (CVC)
· Fintech’s Impact on Derivatives
· Future of Finance: Has capital markets found blockchain's killer app?
· Innovation: Theater or Reality?
· The Market of the Future – Fixed income
· Trading Floor of the Future – Equities
This year’s FinTech Festival will conclude with TABB Group’s 2nd Annual NOVA finalists’ presentations”, says CEO Bruce Morris. “The NOVAs were created to recognize the most exciting FinTech start-up firms innovating business models or workflows within capital markets. Seven winners were selected from dozens of submitted nominations. Each firm gets to make their ‘pitch’ to our conference audience, who will then vote for our SuperNOVA Award for 2019.” The firms include: 280 CapMarkets; Arcus; BlockAgent; Cardabel; gravityAI; Pegasus Enterprise Solutions; and Vikar Technologies.
Attendance for all buy-side industry professionals is complimentary. Registration for all attendees can be handled conveniently at Personal Information - FinTech Festival 2019.
