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2019 CEPR-Imperial-Plato Market Innovator (MI3) Conference

 

South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London
 
Thursday, 27th June 2019: All day

 

The Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Imperial Centre for Global Finance and Technology, and Plato Partnership are excited to announce their 2019 annual conference.

 

This year, we will be joined by Tilman Leuder, the Head of Unit – DG FISMA, Securities Markets at the European Commission as our keynote speaker. Leuder is an expert in financial regulation, delegating on MiFID II, European Long Term Investment Funds, UCITS V and many more.

 

There will be a panel discussion moderated by Nej D’jelal, Managing Director at Barclays and Sell-Side Chairman of Plato Partnership featuring Christoph Hock, Head Multi-Asset Trading at Union Investment and Buy-Side Chairman of Plato Plato Partnership, Mike Bellaro, CEO of Plato Partnership and former Global Head of Equity Trading at Deutsche Bank, and Dr Robert Barnes CEO of Turquoise.

 

The day will also see the presentation of selected and invited academic papers with leading academics from around the world discussing their research. Papers presented will include:

  • Quasi-dark trading: The effects of banning dark pools in a world of many alternatives by Thomas Johann, Tālis J. Putniņš, Satchit Sagade, and Christian Westheide
  • Market Fragmentation, Dissimulation, and the Disclosure of Insider Trades by Giovanni Cespa and Paolo Colla
  • Tick Size Wars: Competitive Tick Size Regimes and Trader Behavior by Sean Foley, Tom Grimstvedt Meling and Bernt Arne Ødegaard
  • Paying for Market Liquidity: Competition and Incentives by Mario Bellia, Loariana Pelizzon, Marti Subrahmanyam, Jun Uno, and Darya Yuferova
  • Large Orders in Small Markets: On Optimal Execution with Endogenous Liquidity Supply by Agostino Capponi, Albert J. Menkveld and Hongzhong Zhang
  • Do We Need Electronic Stock Dealers? by Fatemeh Aramian and Lars Nordén
  • The benefits of European Periodic Auctions beyond MIFID II Dark trading caps by Paul Besson, Matthieu Lasnier, and Antoine Falck

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ORGANISERS:

 

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non-profit organization that fosters highest quality, policy-relevant research on European economics. The CEPR network consists of over 900 Research Fellows and Affiliates based in over 237 different institutions in 28 countries, working together to produce high-quality research for use by the policy community and the private sector.

The  Centre for Global Finance and Technology at the Imperial College Business School is a hub for multidisciplinary research, business education and global outreach aimed at greater understanding of the impact of technology on finance, business and society.

Plato Partnership is a not-for-profit company comprising asset managers and broker dealers who are collaborating to bring creative solutions and efficiencies to today’s complex equity market place. Integral to Plato Partnership’s vision is high quality academic research supported by its Market Innovator (MI3) initiative, and aimed at seeking out ways in which the Plato community can collaborate to build a better financial ecosystem.