Francesco Tonin is the Product Manager for FX Options Electronic Trading at Bloomberg. He previously led Fixed Income and FX market specialists for the Americas, after having ran Bloomberg's Sales Training in New York. Francesco holds a Ph.D. from Turin University and an MBA in finance from Columbia University. He held a tenured research position in Partial Differential Equations at Padua University. He has worked in interest rates derivatives at Morgan Stanley and traded exotic FX options at Deutsche Bank; he also was an FX Structurer at Credit Suisse and at Citigroup in New York. He published "Foreign Exchange Options and Risk Management" for Risk Books.
Main Day 1 | 16th September
2:15 PM Options 2.0 Panel: Digitising FX options: Improving FX options execution: How can you navigate complex liquidity and evolving trading workflows to achieve better outcomes?
FX options remain one of the least electronified areas of FX, with pricing and workflow integration still heavily manual across most desks. Yet progress is accelerating: more consistent dealer pricing formats, wider use of electronic RFQ for vanillas, and early attempts to streamline ticketing and post-trade workflows are slowly shifting buy-side expectations.
This panel examines where tangible improvements are happening today, why certain steps- such as volatility handling, custom structures and risk warehousing- remain harder to electronify, and what “practical automation” actually looks like for a buy-side desk. Speakers will assess data limitations, fragmented liquidity, current platform constraints and what a realistic electronic/voice hybrid model could look like over the next few years.
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Francesco.
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