Day 2 | 25th September

• What strategies can be employed to effectively manage post-trade complexity, ensuring operational efficiency while meeting the evolving demands of clients in a rapidly changing financial landscape?  
• How can communication channels be optimized between front, middle, and back-office teams to address challenges and opportunities holistically throughout the entire product lifecycle?  
• What role does technology play in fostering collaboration and managing post-trade complexities whilst facilitating the trading of ever more complex asset classes?  
• To what extent does the front office dictate new product strategy or can operational teams influence the strategic direction that firms take?

• What are the impacts of an increasingly diverse regulatory landscape on an Ops function that is already inhibited by rising costs & portfolio expansions?  
• How are new tools and tech helping your firm to build the capabilities that will ensure compliance with incoming regs?  
• What impact is regulatory divergence across regions having on your strategies to respond to new mandates?  
• Why are ESG capabilities and developments not necessarily progressing forward at a significant speed and how can regulations such as SFDR impact that progress? 

Stephane Janin

Global Head of Regulatory Developments and Public Affairs
AXA Investment Managers

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Darryl Cornelius

Head of Regulatory Strategy
State Street Global Advisors

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John Lund

Independent Consultant
JXL Consulting

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• How is your Ops function collaborating with IT and Security teams to ensure that new technologies and digital infrastructures have robust resilience measures inbuilt?  
• How are you reviewing your existing tools and tech stack to ensure that all systems are DORA compliant? 
• How are you tying in the new DORA regulation with existing Operational Risk and Resilience measures? 
• What are the changing skillsets needed to build a DORA culture within your teams?  

Sandi McNamara

EMEA Head of Operations and Global Head of Risk and Regulatory Oversight
Morgan Stanley Investment Management

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Samantha Taylor-Smith

Vice President - Enterprise Change Office Europe & Asia
Capital Group

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Virginie O’Shea

CEO and Founder
Firebrand Research

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• What are the psychological barriers to implementing future-state models? 
• How can you empower a team to innovate that relies on existing processes?   
• What is the missing gap in most data-driven solutions?  Is data personalisation the way forward? 
• How can understanding behaviour drive the business forward? 
• What are the future skills required to differentiate Ops teams and transform businesses?

• What role does the sell side play in terms of strategic initiatives that are being implemented by the buy side and how can the sell side advance the pace of industry change? 
• What are the shared initiatives that the Sell Side and Buy Side should prioritise to advance general industry standards? 
• How can buy side and sell side firms more closely collaborate and align around shared objectives to provide better client service and a more efficient trade lifecycle?  
• How can the development of initiatives such as T+1 boost data standards across the industry and what are the barriers to further alignment?

Jon Watkins

CEO
Global Custodian

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• To what extent is there an active strategy at your firm to drive more effective cross functional collaboration and what are the ultimate objectives of implementing such a strategy?  
• What practical measures have you implemented to ensure that cross functional alignment is enhanced and how are you ensuring that these measures are supported by teams? 
• To what extent are new digital tools and tech supporting a better-connected organisation and how will new developments further break down cross functional boundaries? 
• Are there areas of the business that benefit from maintaining more of an isolated structure and creating processes that are distinct from other functions? 

Mario De Bergolis

COO
Asset Management One International

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• What are the changing skillsets that Ops teams need to further develop to create a function prepared to thrive today and develop in line with future market trends?  
• To what extent is your firm prepared to attract and recruit the top talent that will enable your Ops function to secure a market leading position in terms of digital capabilities?  
• What strategies does your firm have in place that are enabling the transition of talent throughout cross functional teams and how is this helping levels of client retention?  
• How is your firm managing the transition from more traditional manual Ops processes to digital first processes and what does this mean in terms of the skillsets required to support this transition? 

Stephen Fisher

Head of Trade Services and International Business Support
Amundi

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Join our InvestOps innovators during this exciting Dragons’ Den style session, where you will hear from four new and disruptive start-up FINTECH firms as they present their offerings in a bid to win first place. Listen up as the ’Dragon’s’ review the technologies’ benefits to your business, predict their future success and deliver their verdicts. The ultimate decision is in your hands though, as the audience get to vote for their favourite. Will you find the next big thing?