On 19-21 March, the World Federation of Exchanges held its Annual Clearing and Derivatives Conference, WFEClear. Hosted by SIX and Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), the 2024 event gathered industry experts, academics, policymakers, WFE member CCPs, and derivatives exchanges to share insights on the opportunities and challenges associated with the future of central clearing.
Traditionally, the conference program featured panel discussions with industry leaders and presentations of academic papers. The agenda included but was not limited to the following topics:
- From CSD to CCP
- The Legal and Capital Market Frameworks
- Regulatory Themes in Clearing
- Implementing Effective Anti-Procyclicality Tools
- An Introduction to Modelling and Methodologies
- The Practicalities of DLT and Clearing
- Developing Default Fund Management
- Opportunities And Challenges From IT Development And Third-Party Management
Exactpro is delighted to have supported the conference as a Silver sponsor and meet attendees throughout the event to discuss how our AI-enabled software testing approach can help improve the operational resilience, stability, capacity, and availability of clearing and settlement, collateral management, market surveillance, and risk management systems, among others.
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.