Diana Stanescu

As markets move toward T+1 settlement, AI-driven workflows, and tokenised assets, the demands on connectivity are shifting rapidly. For buy-side firms, network performance isn’t just about speed- it underpins regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and access to liquidity across global venues. This session explores how trading desks and technology leaders are re-evaluating their connectivity layer: ensuring time-stamping accuracy, mitigating outages and cyber risk, and building data pipelines that can handle ever-growing volumes. How should firms balance cost, resilience, and performance? And what infrastructure choices today will determine the scalability of tomorrow’s trading environment?