Rob Boardman

• How can EU and UK market access a full picture of liquidity and volumes beyond lit markets?
• How can industry best define and report hidden liquidity?
• Which liquidity sources are accessible, and how is crossing and internalised flow being reported?
• Will a European consolidated tape solve the liquidity transparency issue?
• How does the current post-trade transparency regime, under MiFID, need adapting to capture the full scope of equity trading activity in Europe?

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming asset management, but how much of the impact is tangible today? This panel will cut through the hype to examine where AI is truly delivering value, how it fits alongside traditional models, and the challenges around compliance, auditability, and adoption. 

Discussion Topics: 

• AI in trade execution: How can AI-driven automation improve trading execution through automated routing, broker selection, and strategy optimization? 
• Compliance challenges: What governance frameworks can you implement to ensure AI-driven decisions remain transparent, auditable, and compliant? 
• Reality vs. future potential: How can you separate AI’s current capabilities from its future potential to make realistic adoption decisions today? 

TradeTech has been bringing the equity trading community together for 25 years, through the dotcom bubble, 2008 financial crisis, flash crash, coronavirus, and the more recent stock market meltdown caused by a yen carry trade. In this panel we will bring together market experts who have been involved in TradeTech since its inception to share their views on how the equities market has developed over the years, and expectations for the next decade. Speakers will look to answer the following big three questions:

• From automating your trading processing platform to a world of Generative AI- where have we come from and what does the future hold? 
• Will AI live up to the hype, or has it been overvalued?  
• Will London remain the major financial centre of decades gone by, or will its position be eroded in the new regulatory and political environment?