Allan Guild

Allan Guild

Director Hilltop Walk Consulting

Buy Side Day | 15th September

11:10 AM Access & Routing Interview: Execution quality under pressure: How can you improve fills, reduce rejects and access more reliable liquidity in fragmented FX markets?

As liquidity fragments across ECNs, bank streams and non-bank market makers, execution outcomes are becoming less predictable- with fill rates, rejects and information leakage varying by venue and LP. This session explores how buy-side desks decide where to send flow, distinguish differentiated from recycled liquidity, and assess when direct streams outperform multi-dealer platforms. Speakers will discuss how last-look behaviour, reject patterns and fill consistency shape decisions, alongside constraints such as credit and connectivity. The session will also examine how data, analytics and smart routing tools support more informed execution and improve consistency across liquidity pools. 

11:40 AM Trade Automation Panel: Advancing automation: How can you scale auto-execution and prioritise what to automate next to improve efficiency and control?

Automation is expanding across FX workflows, but traders remain divided on how far auto-execution can realistically go- and what should be automated next. This session examines how desks are extending automation for low-touch flow, setting thresholds, and building rules that reduce manual workload without compromising control. Speakers will discuss where automation improves outcomes, where it can introduce new risks, and why certain areas- including swaps and less liquid pairs- continue to lag. The panel will explore how desks monitor automated flow, when human intervention remains essential, and what traders expect from the next iteration of platform functionalities and tools. 

Main Day 1 | 16th September

12:20 PM Clearing & Capital Presentation: Optimising FX under margin & capital pressure: How can clearing models improve returns, credit efficiency and settlement risk?

Counterparty credit limits and rising funding/capital costs are reshaping how FX risk is managed across products. This session examines how clearing can help optimise credit usage and funding/balance-sheet efficiency, while highlighting progress on reducing settlement risk in less standardised currencies. A practical look at where clearing delivers tangible benefits today for buy-side and sell-side participants.

12:40 PM FX Swaps Data & Analytics Interview: Closing the data gap: How can better analytics, benchmarks and curve modelling improve pricing transparency and execution decisions?

FX swaps remain one of the least transparent areas of the FX market, with pricing dispersed across bilateral streams, RFQs and voice channels. Traders face challenges building reliable curves, comparing dealers, and understanding roll and turn costs- and limited swaps-specific TCA makes it hard to assess execution quality or refine future decisions.

This panel examines how improved data aggregation, curve construction, benchmarking and analytics can strengthen transparency and support smarter tenor, routing and pricing choices. Speakers will discuss what high-quality swaps data should look like, how to overcome fragmentation, and which practical tools execution teams can use today to enhance swaps pricing and decision-making.

Main Day 2 | 17th September

11:15 AM Corporate Teach- In: How corporates operate: How corporate hedging and execution behaviour influences currency markets

Corporate FX flows are shaped by internal structures as much as by market conditions, with execution behaviour differing significantly between centralised and more decentralised treasury models. This interactive session brings together two corporate perspectives to compare how exposures are identified, approved and hedged across different organisational setups. The discussion will walk institutional trading desks through practical differences in forecasting cycles, approval chains, execution methods (RFQ, streaming and algos), and how exceptions such as M&A activity or less liquid markets are managed. Designed to demystify corporate behaviour, clarify execution patterns and improve understanding of how corporate FX flows enter and move through the market. 

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