Claudia Preece

With automation rising, desks face mounting pressure to prove the value of their broker relationships- while meeting increasingly stringent risk and control requirements. This panel will explore how firms are defining performance metrics, managing customisation, and ensuring fairness in broker selection. Panellists will discuss the integration of algorithmic trading control frameworks, monitoring for limit breaches or unintended behaviour, and the role of analytics in ensuring accuracy. How can firms best measure performance, and what does good governance look like in an automated execution environment?

As equity derivatives trading becomes more electronic, desks are under pressure to execute with greater speed, precision, and efficiency. This panel explores how automation, smart execution algos, and real-time analytics are reshaping order handling, risk management, and execution quality. From building models to improve fill probability, to embedding advanced analytics into trader decision-making, panellists will share how buy-side firms are deploying technology to reduce costs, enhance liquidity access, and improve overall execution performance in equity derivatives trading.