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Forex Network Chicago 2011
venue Mid-America Club

address 200 East Randolph Drive

city Chicago

country USA

Contact Email cloveday@profit-loss.com

Contact Tel. +44 (0)20 7377 6984


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8:00 Registration & Trade Show Open

9:00 Fireside Chat with Martin Mallett, Chief Dealer, The Bank of England
hosted by David Clark, Chairman of the Wholesale Markets Brokers’ Association


9:30 Panel 1: Where did it all go right? – Sponsored by Knight Hotspot FX

• One model, various approaches
• What does it take to succeed?
• Challenges ahead
• New entrants
• The human element

Speakers:
Jim Kwiatkowski – Head of Sales America – FXall
Chip Lowry – Senior Managing Director – State Street eExchange
John Miesner – Managing Director, Global Head of Sales – Knight Hotspot FX LLC
Matt O’Hara – SVP, Head of Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, Americas – Thomson Reuters
Dan Torrey – Head of EBS Sales- North America – ICAP


10:30 Coffee Break - Sponsored by FlexTrade

11:00 Spotlight 1 - Surprising Observations from the High Frequency World: Julian Cook – Head of Quantitative Research – GFI FENICS

11:15 Panel 2: From Here to Eternity? The rise and rise of FX PB – sponsored by Logicscope
• Prime brokerage and other fee-based business
• Growth markets
• Finding new sources of business
• Which client sectors are poised for growth?
• Can clearing be a boon to business?
• Is standardisation a good thing?
• Post-trade services

Speakers:
Andy Coyne – Managing Director, Head of FX Prime Brokerage – Citi
Nick Dyne – Business Development Director – Logicscope
Tony Dalton – Managing Director – Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Gil Mandelzis – CEO – Traiana

12:15 Lunch - Sponsored by BNP Paribas

1:15 Spotlight 2- “How Healthy Electronic Ecosystems Benefit Currency Trading”: John Knuff – General Manager, Global Financial Service – Equinix

1:30 Panel 3: Hedging FX: The Active Corporate Treasurer’s role in managing FX Exposure – sponsored by 360T
• Why hedge?
• Voice and the e-channel, what works where?
• PB for corporates?
• Corporate treasuries in the Dodd-Frank world
• What do corporate treasuries want/need from bank providers?
• Multibank vs single-bank service provision

Speakers:
Anna Faustini – Co-Head of IFD – Société Générale Americas
Phil Harris – CEO, Americas – 360Trading

2:30 Coffee Break - Sponsored by FlexTrade

3:00 Panel 4: Viagra for FX Options?
• Will the new market structure boost growth in FX options volumes?
• What will it take to succeed in new FX options markets?
• How does a bank operate and differentiate itself in the new FX options market?
• What will the new players look like?
• What are the keys to volume growth?
• What is the next generation of options technology?
• Do we need new, more transparent risk management procedures?
• How can technology improve client relationships?
• The impact of the changing post-trade environment
• Differentiating oneself beyond the price
• New Venues

Speakers:
Craig LeVeille – Director, FX Product – CME Group
Paul Millward – Head of FX Technology – GFI Group
Mark Schlater – Managing Director, COO FX & PM Derivatives - UBS

4:00 Coffee Break - Sponsored by FlexTrade

4:30 Panel 5: Junk in the Trunk: The importance of a good back-end – sponsored by DealHub
• Risk Mitigation: Post-Trade Infrastructure & CCPs
• Is there a role for clearing houses as system risk managers?
• What role should CCPs play in protecting global markets from systemic risk?
• Can post-trade regulation be effective?
• Should links with CCPs be established to eliminate concentration risk?
• Should trading venues offer links to multiple CCPs?

Speakers:
Thomas Hammond – President & COO – ICE Clear U.S.
Terence Oh – Managing Director Global COO, FXPB and Clearing – UBS
Patrick Philpott – President – DealHub
Derek Sammann – Managing Director, Interest Rates & FX Products – CME Group

5:45 Conference Ends
6:00 Cocktail Reception Park Grill, Millennium Park - sponsored by CME Group
8:30-11: 30pm After Party - Vertigo Sky Lounge at The Dana Hotel and Spa
2 West Erie Street (at State Street Intersection)
Chicago, IL 60654
- Sponsored by ICAP

Day 2:

9:00 Bloody Mary Breakfast – Sponsored by GFI Group

10:00 Panel 6: Build Your Own FX Exchange – sponsored by ICE Futures U.S.
• If you could build your own exchange to trade FX products, how would you do it?
• Who could trade?
• Who would clear?
• What products would you offer?
• How much would you charge?

Moderator: Ray McKenzie – VP ICE US Marketing & Sales – ICE Futures U.S.
Speakers:
Joe Conlan – Global Head of FX Sales – FCSTONE LLC
Greg Ingrassia – Senior FX Trader – XR Trading
Evgeni Mitkov – CEO – SURFACExchange
Bob Savage – CEO – Track.com

11:00 Coffee Break - Sponsored by UBS

11:30 Panel 7: All cashed up and nowhere to go – sponsored by FXall
• We know what to sell, but what do we buy?
• US position in global markets
• New economic paradigm?
• Is there a systematic way to invest in currency?
• How might the regulatory environment impact bottom line profitability and operational revenues?
• Opportunities for providing currency overlay services

Moderator: Bob Savage – CEO – Track.com
Speakers:
Ray Attrill – Head of FX Strategy, North America – BNP Paribas
Peter Hanson – Managing Partner – Astor Capital Management LLC
Alvise Marino – Currency Strategist – Credit Suisse

12:30 Lunch - Sponsored by First Derivatives

1:15 Panel 8: Warning: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Leveraging global experience and making it local
• How can we better service developed markets?
• Global experience ina local environment
• Bringing a global platform to a local market

Speakers:
Paul Chappell – Founder and Chief Investment Officer – C-View Ltd
Anna Didier – Growth Markets Product and Business Development – ICAP Electronic Broking
Debra Lodge – Managing Director, Head of eSales and Strategy Latin America – HSBC Bank USA
Tom Rogers – Community Manager, Americas Treasury – Thomson Reuters

2:15 Coffee Break - Sponsored by UBS

2:45 Panel 9: The Forex Network Think Tank – sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• Better execution
• Managing the relationship in the e-world
• Single or Multibank platforms: Which works best?
• A new approach to options trading?
• Is the Cloud a good thing?
• And lots of others that we can’t talk about because it's off the record!!

Speakers:
Paul Ainsworth – Executive Director, FX eCommerce Americas – UBS
Mike Harris – Director of Trading – Campbell & Company, Inc.
Mark Sykes –Managing Director, Head of Algorithmic Solutions, Global Rates and Currencies – Bank of America Merrill Lynch

4:00 Closing Cocktail Reception - Sponsored by FXDD