WFEClear: The WFE’s Clearing and Derivatives Conference 2025

Hosted by Korea Exchange, the World Federation of Exchanges Annual Clearing and Derivatives Conference, WFEClear, will take place on 1-3 April. This is an invitation-only event bringing together senior practitioners, supervisors, and leading academics engaged in initiatives related to CCPs and clearing risk management. The conference aims to foster collaboration and idea exchange on the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of central and bilateral clearing.

The 3-day event program will include but will not be limited to the following tropics:

• The Role, Function, & Workings of the CCP
• From CSD to CCP: At What Stage is Creating a CCP Beneficial?
• The Legal & Regulatory Framework
• Clearing 24/7 Trading: Challenges & Prerequisites
• The Effect of DLT Settlement Latency on Market Liquidity
• Artificial Intelligence in Clearing
• Consolidation, Integration, and Interoperability

Exactpro’s Iosif Itkin, CEO & Co-Founder, and Ian Salmon, Business Development, Dmitry Kolpakov, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Michael Smith, Head of Sales will be onsite throughout the event to meet with attendees and discuss how Exactpro’s AI Testing approach can enhance the operational resilience, stability, capacity, and availability of clearing and settlement, collateral management, market surveillance, and risk management systems, among others.

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.