Global Trend of High-Speed Messaging

Kenichi Tachinooka
Corporate Officer, General Manager of Securities Solutions Division
Intelligent Wave Inc.

Bob Van Valzah
Director, Product Marketing
29West/Informatica

In the light of the expanding variation of order execution along with the activation of PTS, speeding up of exchanges in Japan such as TSE Arrowhead and OSE J-Gate, disparity in yield is widening among securities companies depends on the approach towards those technical and infrastructural trends.

In this session, Intelligent Wave and 29West/Informatica will jointly talk about the reality and trends of high performance systems and technologies such as HFT, increasing importance of high-speed messaging, and other latest global technology trends with actual cases.

Business Technology Solutions Needed for New Market Risk and Financial Survival

James Wolstenholme
Director of Capital Markets WW FSI
Hewlett-Packard Company

The economic crisis has been the catalyst of Financial Reform but as Financial Services Firms have attempted to meet the new demands clients, markets and regulators there has been serious need to reengineering trading and operations. New market structure, trading and risk demands and client transparency are inadequately supported by past systems and technology. The top tier Financial Services Firms are already innovating and transforming their business processes and supporting technologies to win new market share and retain current clients. This presentation will cover what are the current business/ technical strategies and tactics of these Global Financial Services Institutions.

Dawn of TSE derivatives market

Akira Tagaya, Sales Director, Derivatives
Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc

Tokyo Stock Exchange will migrate the futures trading system into “Tdex+” based on Liffe-CONNECT. After that, investors will be able to access all TSE derivatives on a single platform. This workshop unveils a new growth strategy of Japanese derivatives.

When One Size Doesn’t Always Fit All - The Challenges of Implementing Foreign Trading Systems for Japanese Investors

Timothy Keough
Senior Implementation Manager
Charles River Development

Foreign trading system vendors have come to Japan to find that their out-of-the box product does not always work for the country’s trading community. Their solutions, developed for a global framework, often are ill equipped to deal with challenges specific to Japan. These challenges may include functional gaps, language, appreciation of local project methodologies and client/vendor relationships, as well as Japan’s financial market regulations.

The Latest on Institutional Trading Technology - What Issues Buy-side & Sell-side are Facing?

Robin Strong, Director, Buy-side Market Strategy,
Fidessa
Hiroshi Matsubara, Marketing Director,
Fidessa kk

1) Global Investment Compliance Trends
In these competitive and turbulent market conditions, compliance and investment guideline monitoring process is increasing its importance within the buy-side business workflow. This session reviews the latest global compliance trends, focusing on analysis of the European markets and its relevance to the Japanese buy-side industry.

2) Internal Markets
In the post-arrowhead Japanese equities market, trading volumes of PTS and broker internal cross are slowly but steadily increasing. Internal Markets (broker crossing) will be closely connected with SOR and constitute a key component for brokers to provide best execution to their institutional buy side clients. The session presentｓ analysis of the latest market structure and introduces Fidessa's concept of building a solution for Internal Markets.

Bloomberg Cloud Computing with Open Technology

Francis Michel, Enterprise Solutions
Keiichiro Oikawa, Director, OMS Division
Satoshi Watanabe, Sales, OMS Division
Bloomberg L.P

Today's financial markets require organizations to adapt to changing needs and quickly deploy solutions. Understand how you can lower costs and drive efficiencies through two key areas:

1) Efficiency in Enterprise Market Data
Understand how new technology can enable you to deploy data flow across the enterprise through open standards and reduced dependence on closed systems and protocols.

2) Cloud Computing with Open Architecture
Today's requirement for best execution and multi-asset platforms require out of the box thinking. Understand how cloud computing and open architecture is transforming traditional ways of deploying new OMS and Trading solutions.