Andrew Coyne
Founder
CobaltFX

Andy is the founder of CobaltFX, a United Fintech Company. He started his career at Bankers Trust Company in 1988, ran FX Prime Brokerage at Deutsche Bank for 6 years before becoming Head of FX Prime Brokerage at Citi. In 2012 he joined ICAP as the CEO of Traiana before founding CobaltFX in 2015. Andy has been instrumental in driving creativity in FX and his focus has always been effective market growth, risk reduction and profitability. The CobaltFX shared ledger for Credit and Post-Trade has not only solved existing problems but is a true game changer that delivers modern solutions for age old problems.

Susan Dauber
Founder and Managing Member
Dauber Law Group

Susan Dauber is a founder and managing member of the Dauber Law Group, where she focuses her practice on the finance and technology sectors. She also serves as a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's GMAC Global Market Structure Subcommittee, and is an Advisor to the Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), where she previously served as Chairperson. Prior to returning to private practice, Ms. Dauber held the position of Euronext’s Head of Legal & Regulatory – U.S., as well as CEO of Euronext US Inc., Chairperson of Euronext Market Services, Chairperson of Euronext Markets Singapore, and a member of several Euronext boards of directors. Ms. Dauber began her career as a litigator for Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, before transitioning in-house as General Counsel, initially for Lava Trading, and followed by several other successful emerging companies. She has also served as Chairperson of the Passaic Valley Water Commission and as an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School where she taught a transactional bootcamp. Ms. Dauber is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania.

Ivan Dexeus
Former Managing Director and Head of FX and Commodities
TD Securities, Dublin

Ivan is a seasoned financial services professional with a career spanning 20 years and a proven track record of driving growth and innovation in Foreign Exchange. Most recently, Ivan served as the Managing Director and Head of FX and Commodities at TD Securities in Dublin. In this role, he led the creation and expansion of their EU FX and Commodities Sales and Trading hub.

Prior to this, Ivan was a Director at TD Securities in London, where he spearheaded the expansion of the firm’s FX Sales efforts in Continental Europe and the Middle East. Ivan also held sales positions at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, developing their European FX franchises.

Academically, he’s currently pursuing a Professional Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services from University College Dublin and holds a Master’s in Management from ESCP Business School.

Paul Goldberg
Global Head of FX Algo and Fixing Execution Desk
Citigroup

Joining Citi in 1999 Paul has 25 years of experience, holding roles across operations, finance, and eTrading. Paul is currently responsible for Citi’s algo execution desk and the systematic risk management of Citi’s benchmark orders business.

Guy Hopkins
CEO & Founder
FairXchange

Guy began his career in 1998 providing technology solutions to Lloyds Insurance market. He joined Bloomberg in 2002, where he held a number of sales and management roles, culminating in responsibility for Bloomberg’s popular FX<GO> product in Europe.

In 2008 he joined Morgan Stanley, where he managed eDistribution for FX and Emerging Markets in EMEA. He has extensive practical experience in managing an electronic foreign exchange business, specialising in TCA and algorithmic execution. In 2016 he launched FairXchange, bringing clarity and transparency to execution performance through the provision of independent data.

Paul Houston
Managing Director, Global Head of FX Products
CME Group

Paul Houston serves as CME Group’s Managing Director, Global Head of FX Products. He is responsible for leading the development, execution and management of CME Group’s FX futures, cash and OTC markets globally. He is based in London.

Having successfully run CME Group’s futures and options business for seven years, in August 2023, Houston also took on responsibility for the company’s EBS cash markets business to focus on expanding trading opportunities and efficiencies for clients and enhancing product development across the entire FX marketplace.

Prior to joining CME Group in April 2016, Houston worked for Deutsche Bank in London where he was Head of FX and Fixed Income Prime Brokerage and Listed Derivatives Client Solutions in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In that role, he delivered a range of FX, OTC rates and credit clearing, listed derivatives clearing and execution products and services to institutional clients including hedge funds, asset managers and banks.

Before joining Deutsche Bank in 2012, Houston ran global FX and fixed income prime brokerage teams at a number of banks including Credit Suisse, RBS and JP Morgan Chase in London and New York.

Houston is a member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Foreign Exchange Contact Group and the Bank of England's London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee, as well as Treasurer and Board member of the Foreign Exchange Professional’s Association (FXPA).

Paul Lambert
Chief Executive Officer
NCFX

Paul began his career at the Bank of England before working as a foreign exchange strategist for UBS and then Citibank, eventually as European Head of FX Strategy. Shifting to the buy-side of the market, Paul joined DeAM, where he became Global Head of Currency. Paul held similar leadership roles at UBS Asset Management and Insight Investment. He also founded and successfully led a global macro hedge fund for Polar Capital. Paul has a unique perspective and the ideal experience to lead NCFX, a company passionate about fairness and efficiency in the foreign exchange market.

Stephane Malrait
Global Head of market structure and innovation for financial markets
ING BANK

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is also leading innovation activities in the capital market space within ING and developing external partnership with Fintech companies. He actively contributes in industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop the financial market group’s cross-asset ecommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING Financial Market innovation strategy and working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how trading floor operates.

Stephane is also an advisor or board member for several Fintech initiatives and trading associations in Fixed income and FX. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association - an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. He chaired the ACI FX committee from 2010 for 10 years and joined ACI FMA board in 2020 and became chairman of the board in June 2021. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group and a board member of ICMA since May 2023.

Preston Mesick
Global Head of FX Algos, Orders and Benchmarks
Barclays Investment Bank

Preston Mesick is the Global Head of FX Algos, Orders and Benchmarks.

 He joined Barclays in 2022 responsible for Barclays’ Gator suite of algos, the Powerfill principal orders suite, and benchmark orders for G10, EM and NDF currencies. He is mandated to design, implement and improve all aspects of the execution offering including internalization, order routing, customer requested features and transaction cost analysis. Prior to joining Barclays, Preston spent significant time as a founding member of the eFX trading team of a large bank and at a FICC trading technology vendor leading growth and ultimately acquisition.

He holds an Master’s degree in Computer Security from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Joe Nash
Head of Digital for Global Macro
BNP Paribas

Joe has nearly 20 years of experience across Fixed Income, he has run sales, structuring and e-sales teams globally and now heads digital for the global macro business line at BNP Paribas.  

Mauricio Sada-Paz
Global Head of eFICC Sales
Bank of America

Mauricio Sada-Paz is Global Head of eFICC Sales at Bank of America, based in London. He leads the execution of the eFICC strategy across Credit, Foreign Exchange and Rates.

Mauricio re-joined Bank of America in September 2021 with over 26 years of markets experience. Prior to this role, he spent three years at Barclays as Global Head of eFICC Product and Distribution after having spent eight years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as Global Head of eFX Sales and Head of eFICC Sales for EMEA. Previously, he spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs, initially as a FICC Sales Trader before moving to FX Sales.

Mauricio graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where he received a BS in International Economics. He represents Bank of America on the board of the Financial Markets Standards Board “FMSB”.

Anthony Sands
Former Head of FX Sales EMEA
Credit Suisse

Anthony Sands served as Head of Credit Suisse's FX sales until recently. With a career spanning 35 years with 25 years dedicated to Credit Suisse, Anthony boasts deep client relationships and a proven track record of successfully building sales franchises and driving revenue growth.

Now actively seeking new opportunities with the FX factor, Anthony brings a wealth of experience and strong foundation for strategic leadership within the FX industry.