Armando Diaz

CEO PureStream

Armando Diaz is CEO of PureStream, an innovative trading venue focused on increasing direct institutional to institutional liquidity discovery by enabling broker algorithmic orders to search, find, and yield more liquidity without self-inflicted price impact. Armando began his career as a Trader for Goldman Sachs and was ultimately promoted to Partner and Co-Head of US Equity Trading. In addition, he served on Goldman Sachs’s Firmwide Diversity Committee and was a Board Member of Goldman Sachs’s leadership development initiative, Pine Street. In 2008, Armando joined Citigroup as the Head of Trading. He played a key role in the creation and implementation of TotalTouch, the industry’s first fully electronic high touch product which integrates the best elements of electronic (low touch) and high touch trading. Armando left Citi to become the Global Head of Execution Services at Millennium Partners, a multi strategy hedge fund. He served on several of the firm’s committees including the Executive Committee, Risk Committee, Best Execution Committee, and Operational Risk Committee.

Day 1 | 14th May

4:50 PM The Disruptor Panel: Examining the rise of alternative trading mechanisms: How will new European trading models innovate an already fragmented market and offer new ways to source unique liquidity whilst minimising information leakage?

During this panel we will hear from four new alternative trading systems who have recently launched in Europe. The buy side moderator will quiz the speakers on their USP, how they are differentiating their model, if they are truly offering unique liquidity, what makes their trading style different, and what problems they are solving for.

What will the European market models look like, and how will they differ from their US offering?
Why are these new venues emerging at this time, and what will it take for them to be adopted and successful?
Exploring what opportunity they see in the EU market and why they are entering now, and why they didn’t launch in Europe first
What is missing from the European market that would make innovation and technology better?
Examining what challenges they expect to come up against in terms of market integration

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Armando.

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