Deborah Algeo

Deborah Algeo is the Managing Director for Singapore and Hong Kong at Zodia Custody, where she leads the firm’s institutional digital-asset strategy and market expansion across Asia’s most advanced financial hubs. With more than a decade of experience spanning banking, fintech, and digital assets, she works closely with banks, regulators and market infrastructure providers to deliver safe, compliant and scalable custody and tokenisation solutions for institutions. Deborah is the recipient of Markets Media’s Best in Digital Assets award, recognising her leadership in bridging traditional finance and the emerging digital-asset economy.

Robb Baiad

Robb Baiad currently works for GTN based in Seoul and covers Korea, Taiwan, HK and Australia as Director of Sales and Trading. His coverage is mostly institutional clients including Long Only, Long/Short and Prop Desks offering access to over 80 markets including 24/5 US trading. Prior to GTN, Robb was one of the founding employees of Blue Ocean ATS based in Singapore then Korea and was tasked to create demand in Asia to trade the US Market. He built the US overnight trading business from its infancy to seeing over $3B notional a night being traded on the ATS. He previously worked for a RE Asset Management firm as Head of Investments.

Michael Bok

Michael Bok is the Head of Trading for Asia Pacific at Schroders Investment Management. He leads the Equity, Fixed Income, and FX execution team in Singapore, with functional oversight of regional trading desks in China, Indonesia and Taiwan. He joined Schroders in 2003.

He is appointed to the MAS-CAD Panel of Experts on Security Offences since 2019. He is also a board member of Schroder Investment Management Singapore Limited and IBF Fellow.

James Busch

James Busch leads EFG Hermes’s frontier markets business and Asian operations. Based in Singapore, he oversees strategy, execution, and institutional trading across frontier and emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa and Asia.

With more than two decades of experience in emerging and frontier equities, James has played a key role in developing market access and trading infrastructure across less-covered geographies. Most recently, he has worked closely with Vietnam’s State Securities Commission (SSC) and FTSE Russell on the country’s pathway toward inclusion in the FTSE Secondary Emerging Markets Index—advising on market structure reforms, settlement practices, and foreign investor access.

Prior to joining EFG Hermes, James was Partner and Head of Equity Trading at Exotix Partners, and earlier served as Director and Head of Sub-Saharan Africa Trading at Renaissance Capital. His career spans London, Dubai, and Singapore, covering global institutional clients and cross-border trading solutions across more than 50 markets.

Boon-Hiong Chan

Boon-Hiong Chan leads Securities Market and Technology Advocacy for APAC at Deutsche Bank, and drives applied innovations in securities servicing. With over 20 years of experience across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, Boon has shaped transformation strategies and client solutions in post-trade and investment services, blending expertise in AI, tokenization, cybersecurity and regulations to advance resilient, forward-looking approaches. A co-recipient of innovation awards, a Singapore IBF Fellow and mentor Boon actively contributes to industry discussions including in MAS Project Guardian and Pathfin.AI. Based in Singapore, he champions financial literacy; modernization and collaboration across the region’s capital markets.

Bliss Chang

Ms Bliss Chang is Senior Vice President of Securities Trading, at SGX Group. She manages the Singapore equities market portfolio and spearheads strategic initiatives to grow secondary trading liquidity and institutional outreach.

Prior to her current role, she was Head of Japan and Taiwan Equity Derivatives at SGX with oversight over flagship equity futures and options products such as the Nikkei 225 Index Futures and Options. She joined SGX in 2013.

Bliss holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Singapore Management University.

Meiyan Ding

Meiyan Ding is Head of Equity Derivatives Products at Singapore Exchange (SGX), where she leads liquidity strategy and product innovation for SGX’s award-winning multi-asset derivatives platform. She oversees the development of flagship contracts including the FTSE China A50, Nikkei 225, FTSE Taiwan, Nifty 50, and MSCI Singapore—key instruments for global investors accessing Asia.

Her team is also driving ESG and Climate derivatives innovation, aligning with evolving market priorities. Meiyan was instrumental in the FTSE Taiwan liquidity migration and the launch of GIFT Connect, initiatives that deepened regional liquidity and enhanced cross-border access.

Prior to SGX, she spent over a decade at Natixis managing risks across equity-linked structured solutions. She has expertise in trading Asian delta one products, listed and structured equity derivatives, and bespoke corporate solutions.

Benoit Doumas

Benoit Doumas is the Regional Head of Technology at Eastspring Investments. In this role, he leads the development and execution of the company’s technology and AI strategy, overseeing engineering, data, infrastructure, delivery, information security, and data privacy for both business units and centralized services.

With over 20 years of experience in the technology sector, Benoit has a proven track record of delivering scalable solutions that align with business objectives. Before joining Eastspring in September 2024, he was the Global Head of Commercial Technology at Thomson Reuters and served as a Managing Director at BlackRock.

Benoit holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Ecole des Mines, France, and a Master’s degree in Computing Science from the University of Nantes, France.

Julien de Jaillon

Julien de Jaillon is a VP Trader at PIMCO covering Cash Equity, Futures, Options, Delta1 and Convertible Bonds across APAC and EMEA. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2021, he was a Multi-Asset Trader at AXA Investment Managers where he was responsible for APAC Execution on Equity, Fixed Income, FX and Derivatives. He was also a Multi-Asset Trader at Asia Research & Capital Management (ARCM), and Equity Dealer at Edmond de Rothschild. He has over 14 years of Trading experience and holds a B.A. (Hons) degree from Regent's University in London.

Roland de Marsangy

Roland has driven Liquidnet’s geographic expansion since joining the firm in 2012. He initially focused on continental Europe and strategic London accounts, while also advancing the trading platform’s reach into emerging markets, including the launch of the onshore South African market.

In 2016, Roland relocated to Asia-Pacific to lead Liquidnet’s sales and business development efforts across 13 markets, including China. His recent work centers on simplifying complex market structures for APAC-based clients, particularly around the rise of alternative liquidity in the region and how investors navigate U.S. and EMEA markets.

Roland brings deep industry experience, having worked at Bloomberg in 2005 and later on the equities desk of a quant-driven hedge fund in 2009. He is the immediate past co-chair of the Singapore/Southeast Asia Working Group of the FIX Trading Community. He was named to Brummel Magazine’s “30 Ones to Watch” in 2014 and Financial News’ “40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Trading and Technology” in 2015, and he is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Sagar Desai

Sagar Desai is focused on building Coinbase’s institutional client solutions and leading strategic relationships across Asia, Australia, and the UAE. In this role, Sagar is also the head of APAC for Coinbase's wholesale client business, which includes banks, asset managers, introducing brokers, exchanges, financial technology firms, and other institutional market participants.

Prior to joining Coinbase three years ago, Sagar was the head of Investment Solutions for InvestaX, a Singapore-licensed platform for securities token offerings, where he led a Monetary Authority of Singapore-awarded Proof-of-Concept product to tokenize private markets investment fund structures like Singapore's Variable Capital Company.

Sagar started his career in institutional asset management at Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for new business development and revenue generation efforts from sovereign wealth funds, pensions, and endowments in Singapore, Brunei, South Asia, Vietnam, and Timor-Leste. He was also one of the 10 global members nominated to the Junior Advisory Board for Goldman Sachs' Investment Management Division.

Sagar earned an BBM in Finance from Singapore Management University in 2013 and the UniFi by CAIA™ Digital Assets Microcredential in 2023, in addition to completing the Wharton Executive Education course on Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets in 2022.

Sagar earned an BBM in Finance from Singapore Management University in 2013 and the UniFi by CAIA™ Digital Assets Microcredential in 2023, in addition to completing the Wharton Executive Education course on Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets in 2022.

Abhishek Janaki

Abhishek (AJ) heads liquidity seeking products and development at Virtu Financial for Asia Pacific.

AJ’s key responsibilities include managing Virtu’s equity crossing network, developing new liquidity seeking products and services to expand Virtu’s capabilities, helping drive revenue growth and market expansion.

In his over 13 years at Virtu, AJ’s expertise covers electronic sales trading, product development, market structure, regulatory compliance and business development. One of AJ’s most notable achievements is driving the launch of Virtu’s (previously ITG) dark pool crossing network, POSIT in Asia, which provides participants with access to off-exchange, alternative liquidity and electronic block crossing in 12 Asia Pacific markets. As an alternative liquidity expert for Asia Pacific he works closely with Institutional clients, broker-dealers and other external partners across the region.

AJ has a degree from Monash University, Melbourne Australia where he started his career before re-locating to Hong Kong in 2013 and more recently Singapore in 2022.

Andrew Jim

Andrew Jim has served as a Relationship Manager for Liquidnet, based in Singapore, since 2018. In this capacity, Andrew specializes in engaging institutional clients across the Asia-Pacific region, delivering best execution through trading in the Liquidnet Pool and leveraging advanced algorithmic dark aggregation strategies.

Prior to joining Liquidnet, Andrew held a variety of sell-side roles at leading financial institutions including: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Mirae, and Barclays Capital in Asia. Andrew is both a CFA and FRM charterholder, underscoring a strong commitment to professional excellence and industry expertise.

Winnie Khattar

Winnie Khattar, is APAC Head of Market Development for BlackRock where she helps to shape the evolution of market structure to support investor access and product innovation across BlackRock’s product and businesses. Winnie works with stakeholders across the capital markets ecosystem, including investors, academics, market makers, trading venues and service providers. In partnership with Global Corporate Affairs, Global Product Solutions, BlackRock Global Markets & Index Investments, and Digital Assets, she is focused on advancing market structure priorities on behalf of investors. Winnie is also the co-chair for BlackRock’s Women’s network in Hong Kong.

Winnie previously was Head of Markets & Investments Advocacy for BlackRock and led strategic market outcomes for APAC product and markets by advocating for policy and market structure reform. Prior to joining BlackRock, Winnie worked at BofA Securities, and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, London and Mumbai. Winnie is a passionate positive person, who enjoys outdoors, trail running, sailing and community initiatives both inside and outside work.

Kelly Kong

Kelly runs the Electronic Trading Sales business in South-East Asia for Bank of America, focusing on the cash Equity market. She has more than 17 years of experience in electronic trading. She covers a wide base of clients including Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Quant Funds and Private Banks.

She is the immediate past Co-Chair of the Singapore / SEA Working Group of FIX Trading Community.

Pooja Kumari

Pooja Kumari, Director, serves as the APAC Head for the Investment Tech Platform Team at BlackRock. Investment Tech Platform Team is responsible for delivering the Power of the Platform: central capabilities to accelerate investment and research solutions, drive innovation, and lead transformative change.

Ms. Pooja is a strategic and result driven transformation leader with 15 years of global experience spanning the USA, EMEA and APAC in the financial services industry. Ms. Pooja’s expertise includes delivering enterprise-wide transformation, shaping technology strategy – including GenAI capabilities for investment teams, and optimizing and scaling investment workflows to build scale while mitigating risk.

Ms. Pooja holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, with a double major in Economics and South Asian Studies, and a minor in Mathematics.

Ferris Kwan

Ferris has been with GIC for 10 years, during which he has held a range of roles across the organization. He currently serves as Head of Front Office Technology, leading the design and delivery of technology strategies and solutions that enable front office teams across both public and private markets.

Anthony Le

Anthony joined Vietcap Securities in 2022 and is a Director serving as Head of Institutional Sales & Trading. Prior to joining Vietcap, he worked at Nokia’s Pension Fund within private equity and LMCG Investments focusing on global equities. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Wesleyan University. Anthony is a CFA Charterholder.

Hang Le

Hang Le is a senior capital markets strategist with 18 years of experience in Vietnam’s securities industry. She currently serves as Coordinator of the Investment Advisory Group (IAG), facilitating structured engagement between the State Securities Commission, VSDC, stock exchanges, custodians, brokers, and leading global institutional investors. Her work focuses on advancing key market modernization reforms — including non-prefunding, CCP/clearing development, omnibus account models, and improved foreign investor access — supporting Vietnam’s pathway toward FTSE and MSCI Emerging Market reclassification.

Hang Le previously spent 17+ years at Saigon Securities Inc (SSI), a leading securities firm in Vietnam. Including 12 years as CEO of SSI Asset Management, where she built one of Vietnam’s most recognized and awarded asset management platforms. She is known for her ability to bridge policy priorities with international investor expectations and align stakeholders toward common market development goals.

Jean-Remi Lopez

Jean-Remi Lopez, a senior advisor to theValueExchange, is an expert in financial market infrastructure, digital assets, and the evolving intersection of capital markets with sustainability. With over two decades of experience, he has advised leading exchanges, clearing houses, and financial technology providers on regulatory developments, market structure evolution, and geopolitical risks. His insights have helped institutions navigate complex financial ecosystems, ensuring resilience and adaptability in an era of rapid change.

Remi has contributed his expertise to global organizations such as IOSCO and the World Bank, shaping policy discussions on governance, cross-border regulations, and sustainable finance. A regular contributor to both mainstream and industry publications, he engages with policymakers, regulators, and business leaders to drive forward-thinking strategies at the nexus of finance, technology, and sustainability.

Edward Mangles

Edward Mangles has helped support The FIX Trading Community’s Asia Pacific committee for over 20 years, playing a key role in promoting institutional trading standards and FIX adoption across the region, and facilitating cross-industry collaboration. In March 2009, Edward was appointed Asia Pacific Regional Director for the FIX Trading Community, and works closely with the buyside, sellside, regulator, exchange and technology provider members of the institutional trading community to support efficient trading.

Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall, Managing Director, is the Deputy Head of APAC Fixed Income and FX Trading, and Head of APAC Credit Trading within BlackRock's Global Trading Group. His responsibilities involve partnering with the internal investment teams across all regions to advise, manage and execute on APAC fixed income products.

Mr. Marshall joined Blackrock in September 2014 from Barclays in Singapore where he was responsible for Barclays' Asian high yield trading business. Prior to that he spent over 20 years with Barclays in credit trading roles in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong and before that performed credit roles in London and Taipei.

Mr. Marshall earned an Executive MBA degree from INSEAD and a BA degree, with honors, from Nottingham University.

Matthew McLoughlin

Matthew McLoughlin has over 20 years’ experience across leading asset managers, hedge funds and investment platforms. Over the past decade, he was Partner, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Trading & Investment Research at Liontrust Asset Management, where he played a central role in scaling AUM from $5bn to $50bn, driving global growth through strategic partnerships, product and distribution initiatives, and redesigning the firm’s technology operating model with automation and AI integration. He also served on the Senior Management and Product & Distribution Committees.

Earlier in his career, Matthew was a Credit Fund Manager at AIG, a Senior Trader at RAB Capital where he helped manage the world’s #1 performing $7.2bn hedge fund at the time, and held multi-asset trading roles at Legal & General Investment Management. He began his career as an Economist at HM Treasury.

Matthew is currently a Strategic Growth Advisor at Prospera, a consultancy helping hedge funds, asset managers and investment platforms scale through institutional operating models, technology transformation, and strategic partnerships.

Matthew has extensive board and advisory experience, including with The Plato Partnership alongside the London Stock Exchange Group, and is a recognised industry speaker on innovation, AI, market structure and high-performance operating models. Alongside his role at Prospera, in 2025 he undertook a series of senior business development tours across the Middle East, engaging with asset managers, hedge funds, investment platforms and alternative investors on growth opportunities for global investment platforms.

Ankit Mittal

Ankit Mittal is the APAC Head of Aladdin Product Marketing at BlackRock and Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Steering Committee at FIX Trading Community.

At BlackRock, Ankit leads product marketing across the full Aladdin platform in Asia Pacific, driving regional strategy, client engagement, and product adoption. In addition to this broader leadership role, he also heads the Trading Product and Partnerships function in APAC, advancing innovative trading solutions and strategic collaborations across the region.

In his FIX Trading Community role, Ankit provides strategic direction across APAC, guiding regional subcommittees and working groups to foster innovation, collaboration, and standardization across the trading industry.

Prior to rejoining BlackRock, Ankit was the Business Change Manager for Global Trading at Schroders, leading transformational initiatives in multi-asset trading. He also brings sell-side experience from Credit Suisse and began his career as a software engineer in the Aladdin Product Group at BlackRock India.

Ankit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering and an MBA from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is passionate about advancing trading innovation and strengthening market connectivity across Asia Pacific.

Mike Powell

Mike is the CEO of Rapid Addition, a provider of high-performance enterprise trading technology to capital markets firms around the globe. Rapid Addition is recognized as an industry leader in financial messaging protocols and workflow interoperability.

Having joined in June 2019 to implement a growth strategy, Mike has overseen the company’s expansion into North America and Asia. An active participant in the London fintech scene, he is a regular speaker at industry events and currently sits on several advisory boards.

Before joining Rapid Addition, Mike was the global head of the Thomson Reuters Enterprise business division, supporting capital markets’ automation through digital data and enterprise technology solutions. Mike spent over 7 years working in Asia, performing a variety of senior roles before moving back to London in 2005 to establish Thomson Reuters' enterprise information business.

Mike has over 30 years in the financial services industry experience, initially as part of Nomura’s Japanese equity team in London, and subsequently at firms such as Bloomberg and Thomason Reuters.

J.P. Riña

Riña is an Executive Director in the Global Markets Equity Sales Trading team at UBS, covering APAC Cash Equities in Singapore.

She built her career specializing in ASEAN and has over three decades of expertise trading ASEAN markets, including prior experience at Credit Suisse as Head of Singapore Salestrading.

Riña has actively contributed to the expansion of UBS's client access and product offering into Vietnam, leveraging insights from her engagement with regulators and market stakeholders.

Jimmy Redbourn

Jimmy Redbourn is the Head of Electronic Trading for the Asia Pacific region at Instinet, and is based in Singapore. He is responsible for leading and growing the electronic trading business across Asia, offering Instinet’s advanced technology-driven strategies to its institutional, hedge fund, quant, and broker dealer client base. With more than 22 years of experience in the industry, and 15 of those years based in Asia, Jimmy previously served as the Head of Electronic Executions Client Services at CSLA.

He began his career in Equity Derivatives at UBS in London before moving to Equity High Touch Sales Trading at Renaissance Capital, with a transfer to Hong Kong to open their Asia base. Jimmy’s switch to Electronic Trading Coverage came with Barclays Capital in early 2015.

Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott is the Head of Digital Assets for Marketnode, a digital markets infrastructure backed by Euroclear, HSBC, SGX Group & Temasek, where he spearheads the firm’s tokenisation agenda for capital markets.

He joined Marketnode from QCP, where he was Chief Commercial Officer, and has been actively engaged in the digital asset ecosystem since 2018. A recognised expert on institutional adoption, Andrew has advised both crypto-native founders and senior executives at global financial institutions.

He brings nearly two decades of experience in traditional capital markets, having served as a Hedge Fund Partner and as Managing Director in Investment Banking across London, New York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. In 2020, he was named one of the Top 100 People on Wall Street. A frequent speaker at leading industry conferences, Andrew is also a guest commentator on international television and regularly quoted in financial and crypto media.

Michael Smith

With over 20 years’ experience in the financial marketplace, Michael has worked in investment banks, software providers and technology firms. After beginning his career as a macro-economic analyst, Michael moved into a sales role and has worked in that capacity ever since. He started at the earlier days of electronic trading by selling trading platforms for several firms and then moved in the operational space and continued to work for Broadridge. A key relationship developed over a number of years prior, however, pulled him into the world of trading securities, and here, he was at the forefront of promoting market access and electronic solutions to the emerging markets. Following this, he invested privately, raised capital and advised several technology firms on sales and marketing. A keen skier and tennis player, Michael has always been competitive, and believes that the harder you work, the easier it gets.

Khashayar Surti, CFA

Khashayar Surti, CFA, is the head of multi-asset trading for APAC at UBS Asset Management. Prior to joining UBS Asset Management in 2018, Khashayar has held various positions such as equity sales trader, facilitation trader and FX market maker at Barclays Bank over a period of 6 years. His prior roles included trading at hedge funds in Singapore and Mumbai, India.

Khashayar was responsible for converting the trading desk at UBS AM Singapore from equities focus to a multi-asset team. He has been instrumental in driving electronification of fixed income trading in APAC across rates and credit.

Khashayar holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mumbai University and is a CFA charter holder. He is part of various industry groups driving change in APAC securities trading.

Larry Tabb

Larry Tabb is the Director of Market Structure Research at Bloomberg, LLP. Currently Larry is writing as well as managing a team developing research and insight on financial markets infrastructure, technology, regulation, trading practices and industry issues.

Prior to joining Bloomberg in June 2020, Larry was the Research Chairman of TABB Group, the financial markets’ strategic advisory and research firm where he managed research and consulting for TABB Group. Mr. Tabb published on many aspects of the capital markets industry and has analyzed both US and European market structure; central clearing, credit default swaps, fixed income, equity and foreign exchange trading; financial markets trading and processing systems; analytical trading tools; cloud computing, and financial markets infrastructure.

Before founding TABB Group, Larry was vice president and founder of TowerGroup’s Securities & Investments practice. Prior to joining TowerGroup, he managed business analysis for Lehman Brothers’ Trading Services Division and he began his career managing various operations for the North American Investment Bank of Citibank.

Larry has testified in front of the US Senate Banking Committee, was on the SEC Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC), the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) and has keynoted, spoken and moderated countless industry events. In 2022, Mr. Tabb received the Security Traders’ Association Dictum Meum Pactum (My Word Is My Bond) award for “those individuals who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the betterment of the financial services industry and have exhibited acts of integrity at the highest level.”