Alexandre Roubaud

Head of ETF Secondary Market, EMEA BlackRock

Alexandre Roubaud heads the ETF Secondary Market team for BlackRock EMEA. The objective of his team is to advance and protect the growth of ETF trading across Europe. This is achieved by focusing on the resiliency of secondary markets and by developing and pushing innovations within its surrounding ecosystem, including ETF options, unit lending, collateral and execution strategies. Alongside his role at BlackRock, Alex is also a member of ESMA’s Secondary Markets Working Group & EuroCTP advisory committee. Mr. Roubaud joined BlackRock in 2013 from the ETF Capital Markets Team at Credit Suisse Asset Management. Prior to that, he worked at BNP Paribas as a structurer for passive mandates and index funds. He began his career in 2010 on the graduate scheme at LaBranche Structured Products, where he covered ETF market making.

Main Day 1 | 22nd April

12:00 Next-Gen ETF Panel: Driving ETF growth and innovation: How is the European ETF market evolving- and what trends will shape the next wave of trading, distribution, and product development?

As ETF product development accelerates across Europe- spanning active, options-based, and custom basket strategies- trading desks are facing a new set of execution, infrastructure, and operational demands. The European model differs markedly from the US, requiring firms to rethink their trading systems, street relationships, and internal workflows to support a more complex, basket-driven flow environment. Speakers will explore how ETF innovation is impacting liquidity provision, RFQ and algo workflows, and the infrastructure changes needed to support scale and competitiveness in the European ETF market.

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

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