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Join RTS for this one-of-a-kind roundtable debate gathering five of the most successful Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTF) and officials from the leading equity exchanges. With MiFID well into its second year, it is about time to evaluate the impact of the directive on the European equity markets. The concept of MiFID was implemented in a period of economic growth and prosperity to achieve greater price transparency, increase investor protection, ensure best execution and open up a market that was mainly controlled by a few big players May 19th, Frankfurt Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof Am Kaiserplatz Room: Salon 15 May 20th, Amsterdam De Industrieele Groote Club Dam 27 Room: Groote Zaal June 10th, London Venue: TBD Key Topics will include: • Taking a step back- has MiFID succeeded? • What is the future for traditional exchanges? • MTFs vs. traditional exchanges- who is using them & why? • Smart Order Routing- smart enough? • Best Execution: "Explicit vs. implicit" trading costs • Sponsored access, co-location, risk management Panelists: • ARCA Europe: Cees Vermaas, Exec. Director Sales & Rel. Mgt. • BATS: Mark Hemsley, CEO, BATS European Markets Division • Chi-X: Hirander Misra, COO • NASDAQ OMX Europe: Todd Golub, COO • Turquoise: Duncan Higgins, Head of Client Relationship Mgt. • Xetra: Michael Krogmann, Exec. Director, Head of Sales Moderated by John Howard, CEO & Publisher of Automated Trader Agenda: 5.30pm Registration 5.45pm Welcome Speech 6.00pm Roundtable Debate 7.15pm Closing Remarks by RTS 7.30pm Cocktail Reception Please email us at [email protected] to register for any of these events. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
