Kevin O'Connor

Global Head of Analytics Virtu

Kevin O’Connor is the Head of Analytics. Prior to joining ITG in 2005, Mr. O’Connor was a consultant focusing on financial services technology and, before that, worked in fixed income for Deutsche Bank and GE Asset Management. Mr. O’Connor holds a B.A. in economics and computer science from Colgate University.

Day 1 | 14th May

2:35 PM Pre-trade Models Panel: Improving pre trade analytics: What advancements are being made by vendors and buy side to improve the accuracy of TCA and pre-trade models for large high-touch orders?

During this panel you will hear from buy side traders on the challenges they face with TCA for large high touch orders. And TCA providers will talk through improvements they are making for pre-trade analytics capabilities for large multi-day trades to help clients determine expected cost of execution.

How can you create meaningful datasets to study high-touch trades?
How are TCA providers improving their capabilities to benchmark performance and predict execution costs for large, multi-day high touch trades?
How can you connect your TCA, data providers and internal systems to create a platform that connects data sources and shows you real-time information?
How are TCA providers incorporating LLMs for efficient querying?
What improvements need to be made in relation to the integration and connection between TCA and OMS providers to improve the dissemination of market data?

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

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