External events

This year, the FIX Trading Community™ will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Nordic Trading Briefing.

Google’s 8th annual developer festival took place in Tbilisi on 8 September as a part of the worldwide GDG Devfest season. Anton Sitnikov, Chief Software Architect at Exactpro gave a talk on "R3 Corda: Distributed ledger for Fintech applications" sharing his vast software development experience.

Hyperledger is an open source initiative aiming to advance cross-industry blockchain technology implementations. It is a global collaboration hosted by The Linux Foundation and including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. The annual Hyperledger Member Summit brings the Hyperledger community together to share the latest advances, best practices and work together to drive innovation across the industry.

QRS 2019 is the 19th IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria. QRS stands for Quality, Reliability, Security, the event is sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society. QRS conference provides a platform for engineers and scientists from industry and academia to present their ongoing work, compare their research outcomes and experiences, network and discuss the best techniques for developing reliable systems.

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration hosted by The Linux Foundation and including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology.

The WFE’s Technology Conference was an invitation-only event in Umeå, Sweden, highlighting the latest technology changes that shape the financial industry and, concurrently, the society.

ISLA’s 28th Annual Securities Finance and Collateral Management Conference is themed ‘Transition, Innovation, Future State’. This year’s program reviewed the current confluence of political and regulatory flows that will define much of the industry for the next 5 to 10 years, including the latest preparations for SFTR and CSDR compliance.

Synchronize is the leading conference dedicated to enterprise and institutional applications of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), blockchain technology and smart contracts within financial services. Following the inaugural 2018 event in New York, IMN launched Synchronize London this year.

The equities landscape is changing. New markets, algos and technologies are threatening to change the way we think about equity execution.