Date: 20 November 2025
Location: Pan Pacific Singapore
Source: FIX Southeast Asia Multi-Asset Trading Conference 2025
The FIX Southeast Asia Multi-Asset Trading Conference 2025 took place on 20 November at the Pan Pacific Singapore hotel. The event offered a platform for advancing trading practices in one of the most fast-evolving regions in the world.
This year’s agenda focused on the growing significance of multi-asset trading and provided expert perspectives on integrating technology, improving efficiency and navigating complexities across asset classes. Sessions also explored the opportunities and challenges within Southeast Asia’s diverse markets.
With leading exchanges, brokers, buy-side firms and regulators contributing to the agenda, the conference delivered the latest developments shaping multi-asset trading and pan-Southeast Asian markets.
Exactpro has been supporting the industry’s technology and asset class evolution for over 16 years. Michael Smith, Exactpro Head of Sales, attended the event to discuss how our AI Testing approach can help to improve the quality, operational resilience, stability, capacity and availability of exchanges, post-trade systems and other critical FIX-based financial infrastructures.
Michael Smith also took part in the ‘AI in Action: How Trading Desks are Experimenting with GenAI’ panel discussion.
Panel: AI in Action: How Trading Desks are Experimenting with GenAI
Michael Smith
Head of Sales, Exactpro
Panelists:
- Benoit Doumas, Chief Information Technology Officer - Eastspring Investments
- Pooja Kumari, Director, APAC Head of Investment Tech Platform - BlackRock
- Michael Smith, Head of Sales - Exactpro Systems Limited
Moderator:
- Andrew Jim, Co-Chair, Singapore / SEA Working Group - FIX Trading Community, and Relationship Manager - Liquidnet
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, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada, and Italy, and a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.