Yoshiki Obayashi

Managing Director
Applied Academics LLC

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Empowering The Buy Side

Friday, February 6th, 2015

12:00 Case Study: The essential role of buy side coordination in exchange-traded fixed income product innovation

Yoshiki is responsible for IP research and development in collaboration with academics and commercialization in partnership with institutions in the finance industry. Over the last 5 years, Yoshiki and his team have been working with Professor Antonio Mele of the Swiss Finance Institute on the design of fixed income volatility indexes and listed derivatives thereon, and with Chicago Board Options Exchange and S&P Dow Jones Indices on their creation and market development in the US and Japan. Attend this session where Yoshiki will share his expertise on:
- What are the challenges of migrating OTC trading activities onto exchanges?
- How have the dynamics between buy side, sell side, and exchanges evolved in recent years?
- How can the buy side best shape the exchange-traded fixed income market landscape?
- What are some major buy side institutions doing now to support desirable product innovation?