
ETRC IS ALL ABOUT STAYING AT THE FOREFRONT OF REGULATIONS AND COMPLIANCE – PROFESSIONALS IN THAT SPACE WILL SHARE BEST PRACTICES AND IDEAS, FORM NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND EXPAND THEIR NETWORKS
KEY TOPICS INCLUDE:
Times are in UK Time
Christian Baer, Secretary General, EUROPEX
PANEL DISCUSSION
• A look at the past 12 months price trends: Opportunities and struggles for the front office
• From an operational perspective: What has the tightness of prices revealed? Best practices around collateral management, risk management and settlement
• Technology: What can be done to unburden other departments?
• Price caps and governments intervention: What impact for the markets? How do we restore confidence in trading?
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Do we see a shift back to fossil due to the price situation?
• How can security of supply be maintained in the context of sanctions on Russian gas?
• Is LNG the solution?
Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom
Prof. Dr. Sotirios Manolkidis, Vice President, Regulatory Authority for Energy (Greece)
Nathan Macwhinnie, Head of Market Intelligence and Oversight - Consumers & Markets, Ofgem
Geoff Boon, Head of Energy Markets Governance & REMIT, E-Control
PANEL DISCUSSION
In this session, regulators will be answering questions from the audience, including around:
• Cases and enforcement
• REMIT publication rules
• Market surveillance
PRESENTATION
Dr Martin Rose, EMIR & MiFID Expert, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority - BaFin
PANEL DISCUSSION
In this session, regulators will be answering questions from the audience, including around:
• MiFID quick fix: Position limits
• EMIR review and possible outcome?
• Cases and enforcement
Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory
Marek Dal-Canton, Compliance Officer, Statkraft
PANEL DISCUSSION
The panel will look at the various challenges faced by market participants and regulators along the way, around:
• Reporting
• Information publication
• Market manipulation
But will also answer the question:
Is REMIT fit for renewables?
• Publication thresholds: What changes need to be done to cater for renewables?
• New clean energies not REMIT products - Is that meant to change?
Eren Erman, Compliance Technology Lead - Trade & Business Communication Surveillance, TP ICAP
Yasmine Li, Head of Surveillance EMEA, Macquarie Group
PANEL DISCUSSION
After 5 short presentations (5minutes each), the audience will be divided into groups to reflect on a specific area, with the guidance of each presenter. After 20 minutes of debate and discussion, the presenters will be on stage to share takeaways and findings for the benefit of the whole audience.
The topics which will be discussed are:
• Communications surveillance: Where are we? What level of maturity do we see in energy trading?
• Trade surveillance in the energy space: How do you deal with intraday and spot market challenge?
• Cross market and cross product surveillance: How do you implement this?
• Regulators’ expectations around surveillance outsourcing
• Response to financial crimes: How do you embed AML transaction monitoring to your surveillance?
Ailsa Longmuir, General Counsel, Centrica Energy Marketing and Trading & Centrica Business Solutions
PRESENTATION
• Status report on The Russian sanctions: Who and what? Practical impact
• Know who you deal with along the supply chain
• How sanctions shape your KYC procedures
Paul Rennison, Director of Product Management, deltaconX
Mark Wood, Regulatory Reporting Officer, Centrica Energy Trading
PRESENTATION
• Recap: Reporting obligations under the financial and energy regulations
• With reporting requirements coming left, right and centre, how do you manage data collection?
• How can you optimise the reporting functions?
• Adapting to a dynamic space
Federico Piccaluga, General Counsel, Duferco Group
PRESENTATION
• ESG requirements at European level: Where can we make a difference?
• What’s our sustainability plan as a trading company?
• Practical examples of initiatives
PANEL DISCUSSION
With some parts of the Taxonomy Regulation already being applicable since 1st January 2022, and the rest as of 1st January 2023, it is timely to look at what the impact is on energy businesses, and energy trading in particular, and what measures are being implemented in other parts of the world too, so that trading companies can shape their ESG strategies accordingly, including around data collection, and reporting obligations.
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Very high prices: Impact on liquidity, margining cost, thresholds
• Scarcity, and spikes in Intraday, Day Ahead, balancing, ancillary services: What do you do when prices go crazy? Overview of measures
• How do you work on the liquidity issues? Perspective of the regulators and market participants
Erik Hauptvogel, Ethics & Compliance Officer, Centrica
PRESENTATION
With more and more trading floors engaging, or wanting to engage in algo trading, what are the safeguards compliance teams should put in place to enable algo trading, without compromising on compliance? This session will present a roadmap to safely and compliantly implement algo trading.
Petra Hirsch, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Axpo Services AG
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
• Measuring compliance culture: What sort of metrics do you have in place?
• Hybrid environment: Challenges and solutions
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
• Regulations divergence between the EU and the UK: Latest
• Changes to the US regulations: What impact for the EU?
Featuring the industry’s foremost authorities in compliance and regulations
Compliance Manager Global Trade Surveillance America - EMEA & Asia
Shell International Trading & Shipping Company
Head of Market Transparency Unit for Wholesale Electricity and Gas Markets / REMIT Enforcement / SMARD
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