External events

On 9 November 2021, the QA Financial Forum took place as a live event in London. The forum was held at the Hilton Canary Wharf.

On 19 October 2021, the QA Financial Forum returned as a live event in New York. The forum was held at the Harvard Club on W44th Street.

Sibos, the world’s premier financial services event, once again featured a packed conference agenda of expert speaker insights, fascinating debate and big-picture outlooks from some of the most impressive names in finance. This year’s SIBOS addressed how the financial ecosystem can reassess, re-energise and recharge. 

The Japan Electronic Trading Conference 2021 aimed to address real issues, challenges and opportunities impacting the region’s electronic trading community.

This year, CordaCon was held as a hybrid event. A diverse group of CorDapp builders and participants, industry thought leaders, partners, regulators and tech visionaries from all over the globe came together for 100+ sessions, as well as in-person and virtual networking opportunities. 

The 13th annual International Derivatives Expo took place as an in-person event on 27-28 September 2021 in London. Organized by FIA, the event brought together the leading industry experts, fintech startups as well as key regulators to join in the compelling discussions, leverage the networking opportunities and deepen the existing partnerships.

The fifth episode of the 2021 Americas FIXinar series took place on 16 September and featured “Blockchain for Repo – What Next for the Industry?”. Marina Kudryavtseva, Head of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Division, Exactpro, was one of the panelists among other experts from CME Group, Broadridge and Aite Novarica Group.

AITest Conference provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange novel research results, to articulate the practical problems and challenges, to deepen our understanding of the subject area with new theories, methodologies, techniques, processes models, and to improve on the existing tools and resources.

EMEA Trading Conference 2021 hosted by the FIX Trading Community brought the global trading community together to discuss the most pressing issues facing the institutional community and provide a neutral platform for buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, vendors and regulators to share their ideas on how the community can continue to collaborate. 

The second FIXinar in the Americas 2021 series took place on 29 April. Thomas Toller, Director of Exactpro’s US entity, was one of the panel experts.