External events

35th ANNUAL FUTURES AND OPTIONS EXPO took place in Chicago, USA, attracting hundreds of delegates and over 120 exhibitors. Expo covers the cleared derivatives industry from end to end, being a meeting place for both fintech startups and leading voices analyzing the most pressing issues of today.

CFTC hosted Fintech Forward 2019: Exploring the Unwritten Future, the second in the series of annual fintech conferences.

Cordacon is R3’s flagship conference taking place in London this year.

For the second year in a row, Barclays worked with ISDA to host DerivHack, leveraging the power of the ISDA Common Domain Model(ISDA CDM™) to innovate on the use of common repositories in post trade processing.

Software Quality and Risk Management in the DevOps Universe.

The General Assembly is the ultimate decision-making body of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE). CEOs and other representatives of member exchanges worldwide attend it to summarise the achievements and plan for the year ahead. The Annual Meeting is an invitation-only event, where leaders of global exchanges, regulatory authorities, industry experts from academia and the media gather together for an in-depth discussion on major issues surrounding the exchange industry.

Hosted in the  English capital for the first time, Sibos 2019 will take place at ExCeL between 23 & 26 September 2019. London will bring together over 8,000 financial services professionals, hundreds of influential speakers, exhibitors and FinTechs to debate, discuss and explore the new financial landscape. 

This year, the FIX Trading Community™ celebrated 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.