Date: 27 October 2026
Location: Online
As trading volumes grow, markets operate for longer hours and trading venues adopt increasingly configurable technology platforms, performance benchmarks are becoming an important part of technology evaluation, capacity planning and operational readiness. Yet seemingly comparable headline figures representing ‘orders per second’ or ‘latency’ can convey very different stories depending on how they are measured, what workload is used and how the results are reported.
This WFE webinar brings together industry professionals from Connamara Technologies and Exactpro to examine what makes performance benchmarks meaningful for trading venues, other market infrastructures and technology vendors. Drawing on their global industry experience and on their recent engagement where the Exactpro team independently tested Connamara Technologies’ EP3® exchange platform, the speakers will explore the importance and composition of representative workloads and methodology behind throughput, latency and capacity measurements. They will also discuss the role of testing functional behaviour under load in the context of complex transaction processing systems.
10 AM CDT | 11 AM ET | 3 PM GMT
Moderator
Richard Metcalfe Head of Regulatory Affairs, WFE
Speakers
Exactpro
Iosif Itkin Co-CEO and co-Founder
Pavel Medvedev Head of Non-functional Testing
Thomas Toller Managing Director, Exactpro USA
Connamara Technologies
James Downs CEO Connamara
Daniel Davis Chief Revenue Officer
The discussion will also consider the wider implications for exchanges:
- What should trading venue operators plan for when they move from marketplace platform, like EP3 to a live client-specific market?
- Why do technology vendors’ expertise and proven domain knowledge matter in the AI era, and how can they reduce operational risks and support regulatory expectations?
- What are the important aspects of selecting technology vendors and what metrics should be taken into account?
- How can reliable performance evidence support capacity planning, infrastructure investment, operational resilience, regulatory preparedness and technology selection? And how can transparent benchmarking help market infrastructure providers communicate their capabilities without reducing complex system behaviour to a single headline number?
The WFE Webinar with Connamara Technologies and Exactpro
Pavel Medvedev
Head of Non-functional Testing, Exactpro
Pavel joined Exactpro in 2010, having spent the previous 5 years in software testing. His first project focused on performing non-functional testing (NFT) of an exchange platform which soon went live and turned out to be one of the fastest exchange platforms in the world. Pavel has been at the forefront of the creation and development of the company’s NFT team. He is now Head of the company’s NFT division.
Thomas Toller
Managing Director, Exactpro USA
Thomas Toller joined Exactpro in 2019 as the Managing Director of the New York office with responsibility for operations and business development in the Americas. As a financial executive with over 15 years of experience in electronic and low latency trading in the US, European, and emerging markets, Thomas has worked for both buy-side and sell-side firms and has served on the Board of Directors and the Global Management Committees of multiple firms, representing them at industry conferences and on the FIA EPTA committee.
Working across multiple disciplines including compliance, risk, operations, and business development has enabled Thomas to build an extensive professional network, and his previous roles required him to hold multiple regulatory registrations including UK FCA: CF1, CF3, CF10, CF11, CF21, and CF26, Central Bank of Ireland PCF1 and PCF12, and in the US – the FINRA Series 7 and Series 24.
Iosif Itkin
Co-CEO and co-Founder, Exactpro
Iosif is co-founder and co-CEO of Exactpro – an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing and related development services for financial organisations. Founded in 2009, Exactpro has a client base of major exchanges, post-trade platform operators, banks and technology vendors across 25 countries.
In his professional career, Iosif has held many technology roles: software developer, performance testing department lead, technology architect – on a number of global financial industry initiatives. Iosif’s expertise at the intersection of high-availability systems and capital markets has enabled him to successfully facilitate technology transformations within exchanges, investment banks and clearing and settlement organisations in London, New York, Milan, Singapore, Sydney and other major financial centres.
Iosif is a co-author of ‘Introduction to AI Testing: Guide to ISTQB® CT-AI Certification’ released in September 2025 by BCS Publishing.
James Downs
CEO, Connamara, Connamara Technologies
James (Jim) Downs founded Connamara Technologies, Inc. with a focus on scaling EP3, the company’s core exchange platform and matching engine. EP3 encapsulates Jim’s extensive knowledge and experience from decades of delivering capital markets software solutions and trading on the floors of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. Jim graduated from Purdue University, earning a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering.
Daniel Davis
CRO, Connamara Technologies
Dan Davis is Chief Revenue Officer at Connamara Technologies, where he partners with exchanges, market operators, and emerging trading venues to launch and scale modern, regulated market infrastructure. With experience spanning PIMCO, high-growth SaaS, and financial technology, Dan focuses on the commercialization and adoption of new market structures, including prediction markets. He brings a practical perspective on the technical, regulatory, and operational requirements needed to move event-based trading from niche participation to institutional scale.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing as well as development, consulting and training services for financial organisations. Exactpro’s client network spans exchanges and exchange groups, post-trade platform operators, banks and technology vendors across 25 countries. Using deep domain and technology expertise, the Exactpro team helps some of the leading financial infrastructures globally to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency.
Learn more at exactpro.com or reach out to us via info@exactpro.com.
About Connamara Technologies
Connamara Technologies is the company enabling the most exciting and innovative markets in the world. Its flagship product, EP3®, is a new breed of marketplace technology that seamlessly integrates all key exchange, clearing, and market surveillance functions into a single, robust platform. It is adaptable, scalable, and quick-to-market. Engineered for the evolving needs of the next generation of trading venues, EP3 is shaping the future of financial markets.
To learn more, please visit www.connamara.tech or connect on LinkedIn.