PostTrade 360° Copenhagen

Göran Fors, Deputy Head of Investor Services, SEB

• Rediscovering the painful process of strategic decision making
• Beware of the Emperor’s new clothes
• Hits and misses

Alan Cameron, Head of Client Line Advisory, BNP Paribas Securities Services

Sara Lovisolo, Head of Group ESG, Euronext

Successful strategic partnerships requires a well-structured monitoring. How is SEB performing a thorough and diligent monitoring? What does the regulator and overseer say?

Moderator: Niklas Nyberg, Head of Institutional Global Custody, SEB

Catharina Buresten, Head of Risk Management, Investor Services, SEB

Susanne Öhrn, Information Security & Cyber Risk Manager, SEB

Martin Axelsson, Senior Legal Counsel, SEB

Moderator: Virginie O'Shea, Founder, Firebrand Research

Panellists:

Cairbre King, Vice President, Head of EMEA Network Client Consulting, J.P. Morgan

Daniel Zhao, Executive Director, Custody Product Manager - China, J.P. Morgan

Integrated execution and asset servicing has traditionally been a focused solution for US investments by retail clients. How is this evolving with greater global focus on costs and can an integrated solution comply with best execution needs?

Gary O’Brien, Head of Bank and Broker Segment Strategy, BNP Paribas Securities Services

Financial services firms have outsourced functions and activities for decades now, to achieve numerous objectives. Is the next wave of outsourcing destined to impact the previously sacrosanct front office? If so, what are the catalysts? What are the competing considerations? Where can asset managers and in-house managed asset owners expect to accrue benefits? Are there reasons not to do it?

Gerard Walsh, Head of Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS) EMEA, Northern Trust

Moderator: Sylvester Andersen, Associate Vice President, European Markets, Nasdaq

Panellists:

Ole Buhl, Head of ESG, Senior Vice President , ATP

Lars Eibeholm, Head of Sustainable Banking, SEB Denmark

Paul Ravenscroft, Product Manager, Data Management and Connectivity, SimCorp

Distributed ledger technology (DLT), similar to that which underpins cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, offers a radically new, all-digital and potentially much more efficient way of settling securities trades, in comparison with legacy systems. Expectations differ as to how big and fast the disruption to the industry could be, and incumbents take different approaches to the timing of their own initiatives while the technology is maturing. In this session Clearstream will discuss how is it working behind the scenes with distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions  to explore replacing its legacy technology systems, which would be one of the most notable breakthroughs for distributed ledger technology among CSDs.

Moderator: Alan Goodrich, Regional Sales Manager - Benelux, Nordics, Baltics & SEE, ERI BANCAIRE

Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director, Issuer Services & New Digital Markets, Deutsche Börse

How can Nordic participants in Repo and Derivatives markets ensure that they have access to liquidity in all market conditions? What criteria should be considered by the buy-side for choosing their access to liquidity pools? How can securities and OTC clearing benefit both the sell-side and the buy-side? What impact will ongoing regulatory reform have on the derivatives landscape? 

Emmanuel Rolland, COO RepoClear, Collateral and Liquidity Management, LCH SA 

Joanne Donaghey, Director, Sales and Relationship Management, LCH

As institutional adoption of digital assets is accelerating, the underlying technology, infrastructure and operational needs will continue to evolve to support the evolving types of digital assets and new use cases. In this panel discussion, we will address the following:

- As the digital assets landscape is one that is constantly evolving, where is the market trending in terms of market participants, infrastructure, and other key developments?

- What will be the next innovations and use cases?

- What are some of the key challenges and/or opportunities for digital assets as the market matures?

Søren Eberhard, Branch Manager, BNY Mellon Copenhagen Branch and Relationship Manager Nordics

Ben Weisman, Financial Innovation Lead, World Economic Forum

Orla Aherne, Director, Digital Asset Custody,Asset Servicing & Digital, BNY Mellon

This panel is based on the difference in views between CCPs and market participants on the issue of CCP “skin in the game” and other related CCPs risks

Moderator: Anthony Freeman, Consultant

Oliver Sjølin, Chief Risk Manager, Nordea

Owen Thorpe, Head of Risk and Control, EuroCCP

Brendon Bambury, Head of International Client Relations & Sales, SIX

Gert Ellerkmann, Global Risk Governance & Strategy Specialist, ABN AMRO Clearing

Alex Krunic, Head of Equities, LCH

Rogier van Kempen, Executive Director, J.P.Morgan

Göran Fors, Deputy Head of Investor Services, SEB

Niels Hjort Rotendahl, CEO, VP Securities, a Euronext Company

Hugo Sundkjer, Head of Strategy, Business Development & Sales, TietoEVRY Wealth

Peter Møller Restelli-Nielsen, Senior Adviser, Danmarks Nationalbank

Pernille Thinggård, Principal Market Infrastructure Expert, Danmarks Nationalbank

Heiko Stuber, Senior Product Manager, Tax, Regulation & Funds, Financial Information, SIX

The session will discuss implementation challenges and solutions for CSDR Settlement Discipline, covering penalties regime and Buy In, will give an update on the legal challenges from the CSDR Settlement regulation as well as latest news from the EU Commission and ESMA about what we expect and what could be a timeline for the necessary improvements in a CSDR Refit.

Kristina Kledal, Lead Business Developer, Trading & Settlement, Jyske Bank

Pernille Christiansen, Specialkonsulent, Finanstilsynet

SCoRE ECB’s Single Collateral Management Rulebook for Europe with focus on coming Corporate Actions standards. We have during the last many years seen different initiatives to standardise corporate actions. Why is ECB’s initiative special important? What are the impact for the Danish Market? We’ll double click on the new model to handle negative cash flows according to the SCoRE standards.

Jörn Strunge, Head of Financial Infrastructure, Wealth Markets Operations, Nykredit

Moderator: Fredrik Soderlund, Product Manager, Portfolio Solutions, SEB Investor Services

Panellists: 

Thomas Anker, Application Manager, PenSam

Alex Hingston, Senior Vice President, Head of Private Monitor & Performance Onboarding EMEA, Investment Risk and Analytical Services (IRAS), Northern Trust

Moderator: Amy Caruso, Head of Collateral Initiatives, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA)

Panellists:

Tobias Bergholdt, Head of Derivatives and Collateral, Nykredit Portefølje Administration

Christian Måhrbeck,Head of Derivatives Operations, Nordea Asset Management

Jesper Stahl Nielsen, Head of Collateral Management, Saxo Bank

Nick Kurzel, Buy-Side Strategy and Product Management, BNY Mellon

Hear a discussion between Theodor Christensen, head of a newly-formed Sustainable Finance unit within the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority and SimCorp’s Director of ESG Investing Carl Balslev Clausen which will explore the drivers for the far-reaching SFDR regulation and how it can shape the future of sustainable finance. And perhaps our planet too.

Theodor Christensen,  Head of Sustainable Finance, Finanstilsynet

Carl Balslev Clausen,  Director, ESG Product Manager, SimCorp

Göran Fors, Deputy Head of Investor Services, SEB