On 26 June, Yaala Labs, Exactpro and AWS co-hosted a mini-conference and networking event titled "How to Build a Market from Scratch" at the AWS Principal Place in London. During the event, financial infrastructure and vendor firms executives shared first-hand insights on the process of getting an exchange platform to market and shed the light on such important aspects of delivery as product, market structure, regulation, participants, technology and operations – all underpinned by vision and perseverance.
Agenda
Welcome Remarks – Lalin Dias, CEO Yaala Labs
Keynote Address – Dr Robert Barnes, co-CEO BPX & MD Anopolis
Panel – How to Build a Market from Scratch
Moderator
Ian Salmon
Director, IgniteG2M
Speakers
Daniel Wynne
COO Carbonplace Exchange
Robert Barnes
co-CEO BPX
Tim Cook
Director Emerging Markets, Tradeweb
Iosif Itkin
CEO & co-founder, Exactpro
Lalin Dias
CEO Yaala Labs
Adam Temple
Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Closing remarks – Iosif Itkin, CEO & co-founder, Exactpro
Drinks and Networking
About Exactpro
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.