NYC FALL Conference 2023

OCTOBER 4th - 6 PM - 9 PM Tribeca Grill

OCTOBER 5th - 8 AM - 4 PM - Goldman Sachs

200 West Street

ALL TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

8 AM -  Breakfast

8:15 AM - 8:35 AM - Membership Meeting

8:35 AM - 8:50 AM - NOIP Foundation Update

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM - Welcome to Goldman Sachs -Anne Marie Darling -  Head of Multi-Asset Platform Sales, Global FICC Execution Services, Market Structure, and Marquee Client Strategy and Distribution

9:00 AM - 9:50AM -  Building & Growing Brokerage in 2023: Competition & Innovation

Bringing together a spectrum of broker dealers to talk about how they position their businesses for growth, with an focus on competition and innovation in an increasingly complex industry. The panel will touch upon trading, technology, and operations, considering build-vs-buy considerations and differentiation, along with structural considerations for the integration of retail, prime, research, banking and more.

Moderator: Alicia Crighton - Head of Broker Dealer & Cleared Swaps Business and Co-Head of Global Futures  - Goldman Sachs

Panelists:

Jack Miller – Head of Global Execution Services, Robert Baird 

John Spensieri* – Managing Director, Head of Trading, Stifel Institutional

Connie Kreutzer* - Head of Institutional Sales - Penserra 

Tom Smykowski - Senior Managing Director, BTIG

9:50 AM - 10:50 AM - Buyside View of Alternative Liquidity Solutions

Much of the oxygen in market structure discussions rightly focuses on exchanges and ATS, which represent a significant majority of market share. However, retail and principal liquidity have been on the increase, whether from wholesalers, SDPs, CRBs or other principal, representing new avenues for unique liquidity. For this panel, we want to explore two areas of evolution in off-exchange liquidity, retail and principal liquidity, by engaging the buyside for a discussion of their experiences with these sources. We will cover existing vehicles which are working for clients, and views on where and how liquidity access can be improved.

Moderator:  Melissa Hinmon* - Director of Equity Trading at Glenmede Investment Management

Panelists:

Mehmet Kinak* – Global Head of Equity Trading – T. Rowe Price

Matt Karcic* - Global Head of Equity Trading – Cohen & Steers

Bojan Petrovich* - Global Head of Equity Trading – JPM Asset Management

John Bright - Head Trader, Global Systemic Trading - Fidelity

10:50 AM  - 11:05 AM - BREAK

11:05 AM - 11:35 AM - Tony Pasquariello - in conversation with John Flood

Tony Pasquariello has been an active participant in the growth and evolution of leading hedge funds, working with many of the industry’s top investors. In conversation with John Flood, Tony will discuss the evolution of the alternatives space including the latest trends such as the rise of multi-manager platforms. Tony is also a popular commentator on markets and macro, and we will conclude with Tony’s views on the markets and navigating the new interest rate environment.

Tony is global head of hedge fund coverage for Global Banking & Markets and co-leads the firm’s One Goldman Sachs Family Office Initiative within the Americas. Previously, he was head of macro client coverage across FICC and Equities and co-head of US Equities Sales. Tony joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an analyst in Fixed Income Interest Rate Products and moved to the Equities Division in 2001. He was named managing director in 2007 and partner in 2012.

Tony is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Taft School, the Board of Directors of the FDNY Foundation and is vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Uncommon Schools New York City. He also serves on the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation.

John Flood is the Head of Americas Sales Trading and co-head of Americas Cash Execution, Distribution, Strategy and Coordination.  Previously, he was head of US Equities Sales Trading. John is also a popular commentator on markets with wide readership among the investor community.  He is a member of the Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Shares Best Execution Committee. John joined Goldman Sachs as a vice president in 2014, was named managing director in 2019 and partner in 2022.

11:35 AM - 12:20 PM - Lunch 

12:20 PM - 1:05 PM - A Check-in on the Retail Landscape

This panel will cover several different topics including the recent SEC proposal on predictive analytics, impact of AI more generally, Reg BI update, cyber, retail trader sophistication, and more!

Moderator: Sabrina Bailey, Chief Executive Officer, Fiducient Advisors  BaileyBio.pdf

Panelists:

Gary Goldsholle, Managing Director, Legal, Charles Schwab    Gary GoldsholleBio.pdf

Lucas Moskowitz, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Government Affairs, Robinhood

Krista Ryan, SVP & Deputy General Counsel, Fidelity Investments

1:05 PM - 1:50 PM - Sell Side Town Hall

NOIP is at its best when its members are actively discussing today's issues.  We have gathered a group of leaders from the sell side to lead a free wheeling discussion on what they are seeing in their day to day role.  This no-agenda panel is unscripted and dependent upon audience participation so please bring your ideas and questions.

Panelists:

Adam Davis -Head of Americas Equities Franchise Trading and Sector Specialists and Co-head of Americas Cash Execution, Distribution, Strategy and Coordination

Peter Sheridan*  - Managing Director, Head of Americas Electronic Trading - UBS

Jatin Suryawanshi* -  Managing Director, Head of Global Quantitative Strategies - Jefferies & Co

Darlene Pasquill* - Managing Director, Head of Americas Equity Division, Mizuho

1:50 PM - 2:20 PM -  Ben Hoffart - In conversation with Reggie Browne*

Ben Hoffart is senior counsel in the Legal Division and a member of Americas Equities Legal within the Global Markets & Banking legal team. He advises on regulatory and legal issues, relating to the sales and trading of equites products and services and is counsel to the US Listed Options Best Execution Committee. Ben joined Goldman Sachs in 2014 as a vice president in the Legal Division and was named managing director in 2021.

Prior to joining the firm, Ben practiced law in the Complex Commercial Litigation and Securities and Derivatives Enforcement and Regulatory groups at Sidley Austin, LLP, in New York. From 2008 to 2009, he served as a clerk to the Honorable A. Richard Caputo in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Ben earned an AB in Public Policy, with a specialization in Economics, from the University of Chicago in 2001, an MSc from the London School of Economics in 2004 and a JD from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2008.

Reggie Browne* - As a Principal of GTS, Mr. Browne directs the strategy, vision and customer engagement of GTS customer business within the strategic partnership with Mischler Financial. Mr. Browne has more than 30 years of experience in equities, equity derivatives market making and client management. Mr. Browne has spent the last 20 years helping clients build and grow their business.

Prior to GTS, Mr. Browne was a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the ETF Group at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. Mr. Browne has held senior leadership roles at NewEdge USA, Susquehanna International Group and O’Connor Associates; Mr. Browne has advised Asset Managers on the delivery of investment products to the market place and has played a significant role in the development of the United States Exchange Traded Funds industry.

Mr. Browne earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from La Salle University; he currently serves as a trustee. Mr. Browne also serves on a number of non-profit boards largely centered on the arts.

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM BREAK

2:35 PM  - 3:25 PM - The Changing Venue Landscape

This panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges with respect to innovation and competition among different venue types in the US equities markets.  Specifically, the panelists will focus on the topics such as the revival of FINRA’s Alternative Display Facility, exchanges operating ATSs, the impact of the SEC’s anticipated exchange volume tiers/agency trading proposal on liquidity provision, new SDP/wholesaler entrants, the impact of the proposed retail auctions and improvements to current exchange retail liquidity programs that could incentive more competition.

Moderator - Greg Ludvik*, Americas Smart Order Routing, Goldman Sachs

Panelists:

John Ramsay, Chief Market Policy Officer, IEX

Adam Inzirillo*, Head of North American Equities, Cboe

Kevin Tyrrell, Head of Equities, NYSE

Erica Attonito,* Global Head of Sales, Business Development, Hudson River Trading

Roman Ginis - Founder & CEO, Imperative Execution

3:25 PM - 4:10 PM - Promise and Pitfalls in Machine Learning: What Finance can Learn from Other Disciplines

Recent advances in machine learning and AI are happening alongside a replication crisis that has shaken the foundation of many statistical disciplines. This expert panel of statisticians and computer scientists will help us break through the hype and better understand the risk/reward of using machine learning in practice, with a focus on the risks that are already here. 

Moderator:  Allison Bishop*, President, Proof Trading 

Panelists:

Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University

Lydia Chilton, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

4:15 PM - The Closing Bell - Cocktails and Networking on the 43rd Floor - Jeanette Loeb Room

*Denotes NOIP member