CSTA Annual Conference 2024

The Canadian Security Traders Association (CSTA) Annual Conference was held on 15-18 August in Quebec. As the capital markets experience a significant transformation, the CSTA Annual Conference places participants at the forefront of these changes. The conference gathered a diverse range of experts, including CSTA and STA members, industry leaders, renowned speakers, and strategic partners from across Canada and around the world. Attendees explored current trends, cutting-edge technologies, and industry best practices, and will have the chance to create and strengthen relationships within the vibrant community of capital market professionals.

Iosif Itkin CEO and co-founder of Exactpro

Iosif Itkin
CEO and co-founder, Exactpro

On 16 August at 13:00 EDT, Iosif Itkin, CEO, Exactpro, was joined by Christine Ma from Virtu Financial for a discussion titled 'It's Time for AI to Earn Its Keep.'

The discussion explored the increasingly important role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fintech industry. Among other topics, the experts addressed:

  • the benefits of using AI-enabled solutions versus the non-AI solutions,
  • the financial and operational cost components associated with deploying and operating AI in our industry,
  • the AI use cases in fintech that can help generate substantial returns on investment,
  • the critical issues of the reliability, responsibility, trustworthiness, and bias of AI systems in sensitive domains.

The Exactpro team was onsite to meet with attendees and discuss how our AI testing approach can help improve the operational resilience, capacity, integrity and availability of capital markets infrastructures.

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Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations. 

Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite. 

Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, Lithuania and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada, Italy and Australia.