IOMA - The WFE's Clearing & Derivatives Conference 2020 | The World Federation of Exchanges | 25 March 2020 | Hilton Malta, Vjal Portomaso St Julian's PTM, 01, Malta

IOMA: WFE's Clearing & Derivatives Conference brings together clearing houses, exchanges, regulators, and other stakeholders from around the world to discuss the key market structure and business issues of the day. The focus of the two-day annual conference is post-trade and derivatives market issues.

The 37th edition of IOMA in 2020 will bring together academics, policy-makers, WFE member CCPs and derivatives exchanges, and other industry stakeholders from around the world to discuss and input into research. Participants will also engage in a multi-jurisdictional exchange of ideas on the opportunities and challenges for the future of central and bilateral clearing in the light of regulatory reforms, market structure changes, and technological developments. The programme will comprise keynote speeches, expert panels and paper presentations in a number of key areas including: CCP default management processes; recovery and resolution; technological developments in clearing; market resilience; changes in market structure; and model risk.

2020 Speakers

Jorge Alegria
Senior Advisor to the President, CME Clearing, IOMA Chairman (2011-2014)

Nahiomy Alvarez
Senior Financial Markets Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Evangelos Benos
Research Economist, Markets Infrastructure Directorate, Bank of England

Ron Berndsen
Chairman of LCH Ltd., and Professor, Tilburg University, Dept. of Economics

Alyona Bulda
Senior VP in Technology, Senior QA Project Manager, Exactpro Systems Limited

Fernando Cerezetti
Director, Risk Oversight, ICE Clear Europe, Intercontinental Exchange

Joseph Cuschieri
Chief Executive Officer, Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA)

Robert Czech
Research Economist, Bank of England

Pinar Emirdag
Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Client Service, JP Morgan

John Fennell
Executive Vice President & Chief Risk Officer, The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)

Rod Garratt
Maxwell C. and Mary Pellish Chair in Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Andreas Georgopoulos
Senior Officer, CCP Directorate, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

Samim Ghamami
Managing Director, Financial Services Forum, New York University; and Senior Researcher, UC Berkeley

Alicia Greenwood
Director, Post Trade Services, Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Pedro Gurrola-Perez
Head of Research, The World Federation of Exchanges

Quentin Issele
Vice President, Fintech and Digital Assets, OKEx

Iosif Itkin
Co-CEO, Co-Founder, Exactpro Systems Limited

Udesh Jha
Managing Director, Post Trade & Optimization Services, CME Group

Klaus Martin Löber
Head of the Oversight Division, European Central Bank

Joseph Lubin
Co-Founder, Ethereum

Phil Mackintosh
Global Head of Economics & Research and Senior Vice President, Nasdaq

Michael McClain
Managing Director & General Manager, Equity Clearing and DTC Settlement Services, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

John McPartland
Director of Research, Hidden Road Partners

Richard Metcalfe
Head of Regulatory Affairs, The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE)

Andreea Minca
Associate Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

David Murphy
Senior Advisor, Bank of England

Joseph Portelli
Executive Chairman, Malta Stock Exchange

Angelo Ranaldo
Professor of Finance and Systemic Risk, University of St. Gallen

Gonzalo Rubio
Full Professor of Economics and Finance, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Spain

Urs Rüegsegger
Chairman, SIX Swiss Exchange and, WFE Chairman

Kausick Saha
Chief Risk Officer, Risk Management Department, The Clearing Corporation of India Ltd

Patrick Schaffner
Research Assistant, PhD Candidate in Finance, University of St. Gallen

Professor Edward Scicluna
Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance of Malta

Ekaterina Serikova
Research assistant / PhD Graduate, University of St. Gallen

Ignacio Solloa
BME Clearing CEO, BME Spanish Exchanges

Robert Steigerwald
Senior Policy Advisor, Financial Markets, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Nandini Sukumar
Chief Executive Officer, The World Federation of Exchanges

Simon Zammit
Chief Executive Officer, Malta Stock Exchange

2020 Sponsors

GOLD:
• OKEx
• Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA)
• pTools
• SwissQuant Group

BRONZE:
• FinanceMalta