2024 Plato Market Innovator (MI3) Conference
Working with academia to improve the markets of tomorrow
On Thursday 20th of June 2024, Plato Partnership will host its eighth Market Innovator (MI3) Academic Conference at One Moorgate Place in London.
MI3 is where the leading academics and practitioners meet to discuss the most pertinent topics in capital markets.
The conference will take place on:
Thursday 20th June: 08:00 AM - 17:00 PM (UK time)
2024 MI3 Agenda
Morning
08:00 – Event registrations open & breakfast served
08:30 – Welcome from Mike Bellaro, CEO of Plato Partnership, and Carole Comerton-Forde, Professor of Finance at The University of Melbourne
08:40– Anticompetitive Price Referencing - presented by Bart Zhou Yueshen, Singapore Management University, discussed by Sabrina Buti, Universite Paris Dauphine
09:30 – Taxing Financial Transaction in Multiple Markets - presented by Vincent Wolff, University of Zurich, discussed by Tobias Dieler, University of Bristol
10:20– Morning tea
10:50 – Algorithmic Pricing and Liquidity in Securities Markets - presented by Jean-Edouard Colliard, HEC Paris, discussed by Patrick Chang, Oxford University
11:40– Plato commissioned research: Three presentations, 15 minutes per presentation, 5 mins Q&A
Importance of mid-point crossing - Laurence Daures, ESSEC Business School
Declining liquidity in European Equities markets - Jose Penalva, Universidad Carlos III
Optimal trading hours for primary stock exchanges in Europe and the impact of trading hours on liquidity - Richard Payne, Cass Business School
12:40 - Lunch
Afternoon
13:40 – Industry Panel - How to make European Markets More Competitive (panellists below)
14:40 – Afternoon tea
15:10 – Incentives to Lose: Disclosure of Cover Bids in OTC Markets - presented Ruslan Sverchkov, Warwick Business School, discussed bySimon Jurkatis, Bank of England
16:00- Closing remarks
16:10 – Drinks reception
Thank you to our Program Committee for reviewing all of the research: Sabrina Buti Jean-Edouard Colliard Laurence Daures Thierry Foucault Björn Hagströmer Sophie Moinas Richard Payne Barbara Rindi Yazid Sharaiha Erik Theissen Ingrid Werner.
MI3 Industry Panel - How to make European Markets More Competitive
This year’s MI3 Conference features a panel of leading market participants, researchers, exchanges, and regulators discussing a collection of the most pertinent topics facing the marketplace.
Meet the Panellists…
Moderated by Rebecca Healey
Managing Partner at Redlap Consulting
Lara Shevchenko
Senior Policy Advisor - Market Structure, FIA European Principal Traders Association
Laetitia Visconti
Head of Market Structure and Market Access, Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
Byron Griffin
Head of Market Structure and Liquidity Solutions, Kepler Cheuvreux (KCx)
Charlie Walker
Deputy CEO, London Stock Exchange
Anish Puaar
Head of European Equity Market Structure at Optiver
Market Innovation
Watch Plato Partnership CEO Mike Bellaro and Carol Comerton-Forde, Finance Professor at the University of Melbourne, discuss Plato Partnership, the MI3 Initiative, its role in the market and how it brings innovative answers to market structure problems by combining the expertise of academics and practitioners.
