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.

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.

Ankit Mittal

Ankit Mittal is a leading advocate for innovation in trading technology and market structure, currently serving as Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Steering Committee at FIX Trading Community. In this role, he drives strategic initiatives across APAC, fostering industry collaboration, advancing FIX standards, and supporting the evolution of electronic trading.

Professionally, Ankit is a Director at BlackRock, where he leads Trading Platform & Product Marketing for APAC. He is responsible for driving product adoption, user engagement, and seamless deployment of Aladdin’s trading solutions across the buy-side community. Additionally, he spearheads Aladdin EMS partnerships globally and leads key initiatives to enhance the trading ecosystem in the region.

Prior to rejoining BlackRock, Ankit was Business Change Manager for Global Trading at Schroders, working closely with global trading desks to implement 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. With a deep passion for trading innovation and market structure evolution, he continues to shape the future of electronic trading in APAC.

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.”

Vince Turcotte

Vince Turcotte is a Director for Apex Digital, and also serves as Senior Advisor for Capital Markets for the Asia Pacific region at Chainlink Labs. He also is global co-Chair of the FIX Digital Assets & Technology committee. Vince has more than two decades of experience at exchanges, broker-dealers and futures commission merchants (FCMs). Operating out of Hong Kong, he helping build Apex Digital's regional presence, expanding the client base in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South East Asia. He also works with major accounts at Chainlink, advising on blockchain adoption. Previously, Vince worked with digital trade surveillance firm Solidus Labs, and served as Director, Asia Pacific, for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), and as Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Japan for Exchange Traded Derivatives for Nomura International.

From 1995 to 2011, Turcotte held senior production and sales management positions at Newedge Group as well as global banks UBS and JPMorgan Chase in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. He previously held Vice President and Director roles at several brokerage firms after starting his career as a booth clerk and runner on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor.

Turcotte earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago, graduating Cum Laude.