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Josh Levy

Managing Director
Tactical Asset Management

Josh Levy is the Managing Director of Tactical Asset Management LLC (part of the Tactical Group) and has over 20 years of FX-specific trading and technology experience. Mr. Levy has served as an inter-bank foreign-exchange trader at Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) in New York & Tokyo, as Managing Director of the FX Trading division of the SunGard STN Transaction Network (NYSE: SDS) and as a co-founder of the seminal FX ECN MatchbookFX (A division of GlobalNet Financial - NASDAQ: GLBN). Prior to founding Tactical Asset Management, Mr. Levy was the President of CMC Markets which is the world's largest internet dealer in FX and other derivatives.

Mr. Levy has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets including the Washington Post, CNBC, Marketwatch.com, The International Herald Tribune and The Wall St Journal for his perspective on the currency markets, e-FX trading and the financial markets at-large.

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Empowering The Buy Side To Embrace Innovation

Wednesday, March 1st, 2017

11:15 360° Perspective: Cutting through the noise- How to navigate the fragmented platform universe to establish who is best to meet your liquidity needs

With traditional liquidity moving away from the sell side towards multi-dealer platforms and ECNs, FX markets have seen a boom in new platforms coming to the fore. However this has led to an even more fragmented market. Therefore, ensuring you know the right platform to best meet the needs of your desk can be difficult. Attend this session to find out:

In a fragmented FX market, how can you make sense of all the new FX trading platforms and which are best suited to improve your trading strategy?
What functionalities make a robust FX trading platform - What should you look out for in a successful FX platform?
Are multi dealer platforms set to rise to prominence as banks move towards an agency model?
What options are available to integrate dealers and platforms to create FX liquidity hubs?

12:00 360° Perspective: The information edge - How can you exploit both historical and new data to make more informed trading decisions

Generating, aggregating and analyzing data is becoming increasingly important as buy side firms try to predict trends to find new opportunities for generating alpha in volatile markets. This session will outline exactly how you can exploit data to identify new trading opportunities. Attend this session where you will learn:

How do different market participants from the buy and sell side rank their data to establish effective trading recommendations?
What are the current limitations of market data and how can you overcome this to solidify your trading strategy?
How to accurately weight the value of unstructured data to your strategy to find hidden alpha.
How can you find consolidated market data to improve your trading decisions?
Is a consolidated tape in FX markets within the realms of possibility, or just a far fetched pipe dream?