Market Abuse – Regulation You Cannot Ignore
Discussion topics
MAR review
A brief review of the key requirements under the implemented Market Abuse Regulation.
Challenges with MAR
A discussion of the obstacles faced in implementing controls for MAR.
Actionable best practices
An overview of best practices & workflows that can help:
» Prevent market abuse
» Identify, investigate, & determine potential abuse issues
» Comply with record keeping & trade reconstruction requirements
Speakers
Ana Servand
BTCA Business Development
Bloomberg
Ana Servand is part of the BTCA and Trading Automation Business Development team. With hands-on knowledge of Bloomberg’s products over last seven years, Ana has worked closely with compliance professionals in Buy-Side and Sell-Side firms.
Sameer Vaghela
BTCA Implementation
Bloomberg L.P.
Sameer Vaghela works with BTCA EMEA clients on implementing our transaction cost and compliance functionality. He has focused on compliance and regulations at Bloomberg working on building up our Buyside Order Management and Transaction Cost Analysis systems. Prior to joining Bloomberg is 2007, Sameer worked as a Compliance officer at Goldman Sachs Asset Management Ltd.
Mike Googe
BTCA Product Manager
Bloomberg L.P.
Mike is the product manager for Bloomberg's transaction cost analysis product, BTCA. Based in London, Googe joined Bloomberg in 2009 as a transaction cost analysis (TCA) specialist. His more than 30 years’ industry experience in trading, execution consultancy and benchmark analytics has helped Bloomberg develop its market-leading multi-asset transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools. Bloomberg TCA provides trading desks with performance metrics for pre, real-time and post trade. These analytics give trading desks on the sell side and buy side transparency into execution quality, as well as qualitative insights for decision support and trade surveillance activities. Under Googe's direction, the BTCA product has grown to support analytics for global equities, fixed income, OTC and exchange-traded derivatives, foreign exchange and structured products, such as mortgages and asset-backed securities with pioneering work to incorporate exception based workflow for delivery of outliers and insights.
Andreas Pfaller
Bloomberg Vault Specialist
Bloomberg L.P.
Andreas is the Bloomberg Vault Specialist for the German and French speaking regions and clients. Before taking on this role, he worked in our Analytics department covering primarily clients from Austria, Germany and Switzerland.