Welcome Remarks from the Chief Executive Officer of Bahrain Bourse: Sh. Khalifa Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa

Welcome Remarks from the Deputy Secretary General & Head of Research of the Arab Federation of Capital Markets: Fadi Kanso

Welcome Remarks from the President & Chief Content Officer of A-Team Group: Andrew Delaney

Panel 1: Market data and beyond: Data integration and management in a world of Big Data

• How are market participants ensuring they have access to the right market data and other information services to meet their trading needs and regulatory obligations?
• What are today’s best practices for integrating and managing market data services?
• What opportunity is there for regional players to adopt cloud-delivered services?
  

Munira Tulefat, Head of Treasury Transformation and Strategy, Ahli United Bank
Issa Al-Issa, Chief of Business Development, Wamid
Mohamed Ismail, Head of Sales – Data Solutions EMEA, LSEG
Aneesh Mohan, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Panel 2: Leveraging Financial Markets to Deliver Sustainable Growth

• How can financial institutions and industry utilities like exchanges and clearing houses ensure they are well prepared to operate effectively in the emerging environment of the modern financial ecosystem?
• How would the new tools in the market allow investors to track companies’ commitments to sustainability?
• What is the role of standards for ensuring firms are complying with applicable regulations?
• How important are data providers and their solutions to exchanges and other financial institutions?
• What about rating and ranking methodologies for listed companies in their ESG profile?
• What are the data management challenges of dealing with so many data sources, often in unstructured format?

Marwa AlMaskati, Senior Director of Partnership Development, Sustainability & Com, Bahrain Bourse
Duncan Johnston-Watt, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Paravela
Osama Ben Saleh Bukhari, Head of the Banking Commission, ICC Saudi Arabia
Ashar Saleem, Senior Vice President, KAMCO Invest

Panel 3: Exchange systems, DMA hosting and connectivity

• What approaches are the region’s exchange taking to trading platform modernisation?
• What options to trading firms have for hosting to support their DMA systems?
• How are firms ensuring the integrity of their data connections for orders and market data?
• What tools can firms use to ensure their connections are performant?
• How are firms dealing with adding cloud to the mix of connectivity options?

Selloua Chakri, Founder & Managing Director, SCL Advisory Limited
Saker Asllan, Chief Operations Officer, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
Faisal Dada, Director of Product Management – NTSG, AMD
Dina Dede, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Tabadul Hub Presentation

Panel 4: Addressing market abuse – Lessons learned from implementing surveillance systems for voice and electronic trading communications

• How are market participants addressing market abuse concerns across the region?
• What has been the regulators’ stance on market abuse to date?
• What’s the outlook for 2024/25?
• What are the key considerations for addressing insider trading and other trading-related financial crime?
• What commercial options are open to surveillance teams in the MENA region?

Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group
Badr Laïche, Director – Financial Services, PwC Middle East
Muhammad Haris Naseer, Chief Operating Officer, InfoTech Group
Ehsan Husain, Group Head – Investments, Ahli United Bank
Jaber Al Aali, Head of Market Surveillance, Central Bank of Bahrain

Panel 5: Next-generation OMS & EMS: OEMS and smart order routing

• How are pan-regional firms deploying OMS and EMS systems?
• What are the relative merits of local/regional vs. global solutions?
• How does the advent of the combined OEMS impact connectivity issues?
• Which markets are driving OMS/EMS/OEMS adoption in the region?
• What does the end-game look like for OMS/EMS/SOR?

Mohammed Ibrahim, Group Head of Information Technology, SICO Bank
Seif Amr, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Thndr
Samer Abuzahra, Chief Commercial Officer, 180 Capital
Alastair Richardson, Global Business Development, Financial Technology, AMD

Fireside Chat: The challenges and opportunities of AI in trading

Interview with: Justin Xu, Managing Director – Head of Investments, Millennium Global
Interviewed by: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Panel 6: Modernising the post-trade work flow

• What is the impact for the global industry of moving to T+1 Settlement?
• How is MENA affected?
• What are the operational challenges of moving to a shortened settlement cycle and what do firms need to do to prepare?
• What is the role of distributed ledger technologies?
• How can automation and innovative technologies help improve post trade processes and workflows?
• What are the expected benefits for firms of moving to T+1 and what does the future look like?

Steven Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Absolute Collateral
Abdulla Abdin, Chief Operating Officer, Bahrain Clear
Gunsel Topbas, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Manifest Executive Consultancy
Malti Javeri, Country Head of Securities Services – Bahrain & Kuwait, HSBC Bank
Marcus Van Abbé, Head of Digital Market Infrastructures, R3