Varqa Abyaneh is Founder and CEO of Opetek and has a career spanning FX derivatives trading, quantitative finance, optimisation and financial technology.
He has traded across the full spectrum of FX derivatives, from vanilla products to complex exotic structures, giving him first-hand experience of the analytical and workflow challenges faced by trading desks.
Previously, Varqa was Chief Product Officer at Quantile, where he built and scaled the product function through to the company’s £274 million acquisition by LSEG.
He holds a PhD in quantum physics, remains active in quantum research, and has authored peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Main Day 1 | 16th September
3:25 PM Afternoon Workshop: Beyond the AI Copilot: Better, Faster, and More Defensible Trading Decisions
This workshop examines how AI reasoning can reduce decision friction in capital-markets trading workflows, moving beyond retrieval, summarisation and routine automation. It will combine a first-principles technical framework with practical trading use cases and a live demonstration of ARIUS, Opetek's institutional AI reasoning platform, currently being piloted at a Tier 1 global bank to support real trading decisions.
- How fragmented workflows, cognitive overload, analytical delay and limited traceability create decision friction, causing desks to miss time-sensitive trading opportunities or leave valuable analysis unexplored because specialist resources cannot scale to every question
- The distinction between reasoning models and reasoning architectures, including explainability and reproducibility within multi-agent systems
- The role of token usage in AI innovation and optimisation
- How these capabilities can help buy-side and sell-side firms make better, faster and more defensible trading decisions, demonstrated through a live institutional product demo of ARIUS applied to realistic market workflows
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Varqa.
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