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Capgemini at AFME OPTIC 2025

When: October 7-8 | Where: Leonardo Royal Hotel Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Capital Markets landscape is in the midst of a dynamic transformation, with the industry facing a whirlwind of challenges consolidations, partnerships, a tightening regulatory landscape, and the relentless march of new technologies.

Meet us at OPTIC 2025, AFME’s annual Operations, Post-Trade, Technology & Innovation conference, and explore this rapidly evolving landscape and the role of market infrastructures going forward. To book a meeting, write to us at banking@capgemini.com.

Join our panel: The Future of Financial Market Infrastructure: Creating Competition and Innovation across the Post Trade Lifecycle

October 8, 9:40 CEST

Join our own Michael Hughes, Head of Capital Markets Business Consulting, who will moderate a panel of leading experts.

With the current fragmented landscape for Financial Market Infrastructures across Europe in the spotlight, the group will explore the existing challenges and a vision for how it should evolve. Practical ideas of how the industry can come together to deliver this target state will be considered, as will the potential technology innovations that FMIs could embrace to facilitate this journey.

Moderator:

  • Michael Hughes, Head of Capital Markets Business Consulting, Capgemini

Speakers:

  • Alex Dockx, Executive Director of Industry Development, JP Morgan
  • Jerome Blais, Head of European Expansion, Euronext Securities
  • Samuel Riley, Chief Executive Officer, Clearstream Securities Services
  • Sebastijan Hrovatin, Deputy Head of Unit, DG FISMA, European Commission

Our expert at OPTIC 2025

Michael-Hughes

Michael Hughes

Head of Capital Markets Business Consulting
Over 20 years of experience in financial services. Specialising in delivering change in financial institutions, focusing on strategy, project management, process optimization, operating model design, financial market infrastructure transformations.