FX Week Europe
FX Week Europe is where the European buy-side and sell-side community comes together to learn, debate and network. With more than 250 leading FX professionals, it is the place to renew old acquaintances, build new relationships and strike business deals.
Our spotlight keynote in 2019
Ruth was appointed Chief Executive of the LBMA in January 2014. She is responsible for the success and strategic development of the LBMA, in partnership with the Chairman and the Board. She is also responsible for maintaining accountability to and the quality of, the Association's Membership and Good Delivery Refiners as well as representing the interests of the Association in relation to regulators, investors, media and international precious metals markets.
Before being appointed Chief Executive, she spent seven years working in the Association, initially as Commercial Director and then as Deputy Chief Executive, where she acted as the main lead on Governmental Affairs. She was also responsible for the Association's work on supply chain due diligence, with particular regard to the creation and implementation of the LBMA’s Responsible Gold Guidance. She has represented the Association at industry, governmental and multi-stakeholder regulatory forums. She continues to serve as Vice Chair of the OECD Multi-Stakeholder Governance Group for Responsible Minerals. As Commercial Director, she oversaw the development of the LBMA Conference, the LBMA's quarterly publication the Alchemist and the LBMA website.
Prior to joining the LBMA, she worked in bank finance and US corporate law at the law firms of White & Case and Norton Rose, and also acted as a monitor at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. She has an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and a degree in English Literature from Kenyon College in Ohio.
Ruth Crowell
Chief Executive
London Bullion Market Association
Keynote: Precious metals - Integrity. Transparency. Clearing.
Jean-Pierre Vidal
Head of Policy and Strategy Division
EIB
Jean-Pierre Vidal is Head of the Policy and Strategy Division of the European Investment Bank. He was Counsellor to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from September 2016 to June 2019.
Prior to this, Jean-Pierre was Chief Economic Advisor to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and a member of the cabinet of the first President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. He held several positions at the European Central Bank: Head of the ECB Representative Office in Brussels (2011-2012), Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Strategy Division (2007-2011), and Head of the Fiscal Analysis Section (2004-2007).
Before joining the ECB as an economist in 2000, he worked as a senior researcher at the ‘Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’ (CNRS). Jean-Pierre holds an MBA from ESSEC business school (‘Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales’) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
Pernille Henneberg
Global Economist
Citi
Paddy Boyle
Global Head of ForexClear
LCH
Paddy Boyle is the Global Head of ForexClear* at LCH. Prior to joining LCH in 2016, he spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and Global Head of FX Options. He was also a member of the Bank of England's FX Joint Standing Committee from 2013 to early 2014.
Paddy received his BA and Master's in Mathematics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge (1997).
*ForexClear was designed in consultation with members and customers to deliver the very best in risk and default management practices to the Foreign Exchange markets, and as the first global FX NDF clearing service it has now cleared over $11 trillion and 1.3 million trades
Paul Houston
Managing Director, Global Head of FX Products
CME Group
Paul Houston serves as CME Group’s Managing Director, Global Head of FX Products. He is responsible for leading the development, execution and management of the exchange's FX business globally. He is based in London.
Prior to joining the company in April 2016, Houston most recently worked for Deutsche Bank in London where he was Head of FX & Fixed Income Prime Brokerage and Listed Derivatives Client Solutions in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In that role, he delivered a range of FX, OTC rates and credit clearing, listed derivatives clearing and execution products and services to institutional clients including hedge funds, asset managers and banks.
Before joining Deutsche Bank in 2012, Houston ran global FX and fixed income prime brokerage teams at a number of banks including Credit Suisse, RBS and JP Morgan Chase in London and New York. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
James Wood-Collins
Chief executive officer
Record Currency Management
James Wood Collins joined Record Currency Management in August 2008 as a senior member of the Client Team and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in October 2010. James also currently chairs Record's Executive Committee and is a member of its Investment Committee.
He was previously at JP Morgan Cazenove, where he was a Managing Director advising financial institutions on M&A, IPOs and related corporate finance transactions, including the December 2007 IPO of Record plc.
Gordon Noonan
Head of FX Trading
Schroders
Helen Thomas
Founder & CEO
BlondeMoney
Helen Thomas CFA has worked in financial markets for over 17 years. She founded her own macroeconomic consulting firm, BlondeMoney, in 2017. Her team works out of offices in Oxford and London, and provides expert analysis on financial markets and politics. Before that she was a Partner at a Global Macro hedge fund and Head of Currency Alpha for State Street Global Advisors. She started her career in Foreign Exchange at Merrill Lynch before going on to work for Societe Generale and SEB. She has also worked in politics, as an adviser to former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne during the financial crisis.
She is a CFA Charterholder and holds a degree in probably the least practical combination of subjects: Philosophy, Politics and Economics which she gained from Oxford University.
She is a Board Member of CFA UK where she is responsible for their sub-committee on the Value of the Investment Profession.
She was lead researcher on the book "Masters of Nothing" by the MPs Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi, which looked at how human behaviour caused the financial crisis and how to avoid it happening again.
Mauricio Sada-Paz
Global Head of eFICC Product and Distribution
Barclays Investment Bank
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Refinitiv to launch NDF matching and streaming next year
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NDFs on Matching, Refinitiv’s interbank central limit order book, will go live early next year, as the NDF market grows and electronic trading of the derivatives matures.
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LCH ForexClear, a leading provider of foreign exchange derivatives clearing, delivers unmatched capital and operational efficiencies.
Built-in partnership with the market, and with the benefit of LCH’s extensive experience in interest rate swaps clearing, ForexClear offers industry-leading risk management for non-deliverable forwards in 12 emerging market and 5 G10 currencies and 8 currency pairs for FX Options and associated hedges. LCH ForexClear is a 24-hour foreign exchange clearing service.
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TriOptima is the leading multilateral compression provider that lowers costs and mitigates risk in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets, and is now part of CME Group. 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, optimise portfolios and analyse 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.
Moscow Exchange Group manages Russia's main trading platform for equities, bonds, derivatives, currencies, money market instruments, precious metals and agricultural products.
The Group includes Russia's central securities depository (National Settlement Depository), and the central counterparty National Clearing Centre, allowing Moscow Exchange Group to offer clients the full spectrum of trading and post-trading services.
Moscow Exchange ranks among the world's top 25 exchanges by the total volume of equities traded, and among the ten largest exchanges for bond and derivative trading. It is also Russia's primary venue for capital raising via the public markets. Securities of over 640 Russian issuers are traded on MOEX.
In 2017, new equity and bond placements totalled more than RUB 10 trillion. The company was named a Forbes World's Best Employer in 2018.
Moscow Exchange regularly hosts Exchange Forums in key global financial centres such as Moscow, London, New York and Shanghai to promote the Russian market among international investors.
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