Chris Smith

Head of Post-Trade Services
TRAX

Chris Smith joined Trax as Head ofPost-Trade Services in April 2014. Priorto his role at Trax, Mr. Smith developed the first commercial post MiFID darkpool, Euro Millennium, at NYFIX, which was later purchased by NYSE Euronext in2009. After the acquisition of NYSE Euronext, he was Head of Hosted CommericalMarkets. Before working for NYFIX andNYSE Euronext, Mr. Smith was responsible for European post-trade STP services withTradeWeb, building the first electronic confirmation method for Interest RateSwaps. Previously, Mr. Smith heldvarious operational management roles with Thomson Reuters and founded the ElectronicTrade Confirmation (ETC) initiative with Fidelity Investments in the early1990’s.

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Day 2

Friday, March 11th, 2016

11:15 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION : How to improve industry-wide settlement efficiency to ensure compliance and avoid penalties

Chair: Andrew Simpson, Head of Post Trade, Euronext

Mitigating operational risk and increasing settlement efficiency through standardizing Same Day Affirmation (SDA)
How to overcome matching challenges of Bonds to achieve trade-date matching and same-day affirmation
Capitalizing on the increasing emergence of utility groups to prevent settlement failures
Strengthening communication and transparency between the back and middle office to reduce operational risk
Deliberating and implementing compression strategies as a tool of improving settlement efficiency