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Upcoming Webinar: Agility as Alpha: How Trading Infrastructure Determines Who Wins in Volatile Markets

21 May 2026

Date: 21 May 2026
Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET
Duration: 50 minutes

Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or strategies is no longer just an operational concern – it is a front-office differentiator and, increasingly, a source of alpha.

Yet many buy-side firms remain constrained by platforms that take weeks or months to onboard new instruments, connect to new venues or launch new funds. In a market where first-mover advantage is measured in days, that gap between strategic intent and execution is a measurable drag on performance – compounded by the challenge of managing risk in real time across an ever-broadening set of assets and strategies.

This webinar brings together senior buy-side practitioners and technology leaders to explore how trading infrastructure shapes a firm’s ability to capture opportunity in volatile markets.

What attendees will learn:

  • Why platform agility has become a competitive edge, not just an operational requirement
  • What separates firms that can rapidly deploy new strategies from those that cannot
  • How real-time cross-asset risk management is evolving to support multi-strategy portfolios
  • What the shift to cloud-delivered platforms means for the speed, cost and flexibility of scaling investment strategies

Who should attend: Portfolio managers, CIOs, heads of trading and technology leaders at hedge funds and asset management firms evaluating how their infrastructure positions them to respond to market volatility and pursue new opportunities.

Speakers:

Richard Bell Head of Execution Technology
Nickel Digital Asset Management
Oskar Wantola, CFA Managing Director, Head of Execution Technology
Man Group
Ronan Farrell Global Head of Buy Side, FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk
FIS
Moderator: Mike O’Hara Editor, TradingTech Insight
A-Team Group

More about our speakers:

Richard Bell

Head of Execution Technology

Nickel Digital Asset Management

Richard Bell is Head of Execution Technology at Nickel Digital Asset Management, where he leads the design and delivery of trading and execution systems for its award-winning multi-manager hedge fund.

He brings over 25 years of experience in electronic trading across traditional finance, including senior roles as Head of Fixed Income Electronic Markets Technology at Morgan Stanley and Head of FX Market Access Technology at JPMorgan. Across these positions, he has built ultra-low-latency market data platforms, algorithmic execution systems, and real-time risk infrastructure, and has also held roles at BNP Paribas, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, and HSBC.

His expertise centres on low-latency trading in complex and fragmented markets, with a focus on extracting alpha through execution.

In his spare time, he builds guitars—some of which are even playable.

Oskar Wantola, CFA

Managing Director, Head of Execution Technology

Man Group

Oskar Wantola heads the Execution Technology team at Man Group. The team is responsible for trading platforms from execution management systems, market connectivity, traders tooling to building execution algorithms and optimising trading workflows.

Before joining Man Group in 2020, Oskar worked as a trading developer for HSBC, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland and Merrill Lynch, specialising in electronic and algorithmic solutions.

Oskar holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Warsaw University and is a CFA charterholder.

Ronan Farrell

Global Head of Buy Side, FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk

FIS

With a career spanning front office leadership, consultancy, and solution management, Ronan has driven innovation for investment managers and institutional clients worldwide. He played a pivotal role in the industry’s LIBOR transition, representing the Buy Side and shaping best practices for risk and trading solutions. Ronan holds a Master’s Degree from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business and a B.Sc. in Economics and Finance from University College Dublin.

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