Course Agenda

Agenda

Trade Surveillance for Energy Trading Firms Amsterdam

Event tutors:

  • Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory 
  • Brigitte Hendrikse-Troost, External Legal Counsel, IN-PRACTIZ
  • Kasper Walet, Founder and CEO, Maycroft  
  • Gerd Stuhlmacher, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
  • David Hirst, Managing Director, Ainsty Risk Consulting Ltd

Day 1 - Wednesday 20th February

08:30

Registration and Refreshments

09:00

Regulations, Monitoring and Abuse

  • Regulations in play 
  • Looking at the rules 
  • Effective monitoring 
  • Typical manipulation types 
  • Types of surveillance systems 

Speaker: Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory 

10:30

Morning Break

11:00

Patterns and Configuration

  • Setting up an effective surveillance system
  • Indicators vs patterns 
  • Detection 
  • Ongoing process
  • Physical withholding 

Speaker: Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory 

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Planning Your Anti-Abuse Roadmap - Constant Evolution of Capability and the Use of New Technology 

  • What to aim for in easy stages - organisational
  • Technology - current vs. future anti-abuse methods and technology 
  • Compliance culture - how does energy and commodities fit? 
  • Can we ever do enough surveillance? 

Speaker: Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory 

15:00

Afternoon break

15:30

Operational Efficiency and Tools for Business Insight 

  • Reduce the number of false alerts 
  • Consolidation of internal and external data sources
  • Reduce cost
  • Enable real-time monitoring 
  • Help make more informed decisions 
  • Helping map your business goals 
  • Facilitate real time reporting 

Speaker: David Hirst, Managing Director, Ainsty Risk Consulting Ltd

17:00

End of Day One

Day 2 - Thursday 21st February

08:30

Refreshments

09:00

How to Achieve Effective Monitoring: Complying with the Market Abuse Regulation

  • Energy related market abuse regulation 
  • Examples of regulatory enforcement and penalties 
  • How to comply with the rules, best practices on:
  • How can companies adapt their processes and implement compliance solutions in order to identify and address potential breaches
  • Building surveillance capability to detect market abuse in an organisation including the ‘human factor’ and / or automated systems 

Speaker: Brigitte Hendrikse-Troost, External Legal Counsel, IN-PRACTIZ

10:30

Morning Break

11:00

AI and the Hunt for the Rogue Trader 

  • The future of trade surveillance 
  • Innovations in surveillance technology 
  • How new technologies are evolving the surveillance landscape 
  • The use of analytics in ETRM and surveillance
  • Developments in cloud solutions & the use of unstructured data 

Speaker: Kasper Walet, Founder and CEO, Maycroft 

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Effects of EU Regulation on the Compliance Function

  • How are companies responding operationally 
  • Compliance operating model considerations 
  • What is the role of compliance, how does it interact with the wider organisation and how does surveillance fit into the overall model  
  • Documentation and policy 
  • Compliance reporting and oversight 
  • Culture and impact on compliance 

Speaker: Gerd Stuhlmacher, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright 

15:00

End of Course