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Day One- Main Conference: Wednesday 16th of September agenda
14.15 16.45- 17.15: Hedging Strategy Panel: Rethinking hedging frameworks: How can you adjust ratios, horizons and rules to protect cash flows and earnings? Corporate hedging frameworks are being tested by persistent USD volatility, shifting rate cycles and increasing geopolitical uncertainty. Many treasuries are reconsidering how they set hedge ratios, choose hedge horizons and define the decision rules that govern when to adjust positions. This panel explores how corporates balance stability with flexibility, how they incorporate forecast confidence into hedge choices, and how they avoid over- or under-hedging when markets move quickly. Speakers will discuss how geopolitical developments feed into currency exposures, how treasury teams interpret market signals, and what a clear hedging framework looks like in practice. A practical discussion on keeping hedging policies resilient while ensuring they remain aligned with business needs and cash-flow realities.
X1 Sponsors Fergus Colleran, Director- Front Office, GE Vernova Jens Billberg, Group Treasurer and VP Treasury, Trelleborg Group Frank Muusse, Head of Treasury, C & A Patrik Wahlroos, Global Head of FICC Risk Advisory, SEB Moderator: Jasper Livingsmith, Former Director, Head of G7PM, EBRD
16.45 |
10- minute transition |
16.45- 17.30 Women in FX Social: Join senior female FX leaders and their allies from across the FX community for an informal networking social. Connect with peers, exchange perspectives and build new relationships ahead of the main conference networking drinks. Host: Eugenia Buchmuller, Curency Management, Bankhaus Metzler |
Digital Money and the Future of FX
16.55 CBDC Panel: Stablecoins vs WCBDCs: How could competing digital money models reshape FX settlement and currency influence? As digital money frameworks move from design to deployment, central banks face strategic questions that go beyond technology. With the U. S. increasingly supportive of regulated stablecoin models and the ECB advancing wholesale CBDC infrastructure, 2026 could mark a defining moment in how currencies are used, aligned and trusted in global markets. This panel examines the macro and geopolitical implications of competing digital-money models, including what they signal about dollar dominance, euro ambition and global currency alignment. Central bankers will explore whether these frameworks are likely to coexist or compete, how policy direction could influence capital flows and reserve management over time, and what the next generation of settlement rails may ultimately mean for FX liquidity, risk transfer and market structure.
Massimiliano Castelli, Head of Strategy, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management Amit Baraskar, Senior Vice President & Head of Treasury, Thomas Cook India Group Adeline Bachellerie, Deputy Director of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructure, Banque de France Moderator: Elliot Hentov, Head of Macro Policy Research, State Street Global Advisors
17.30 Drinks Reception
Day Two- Main Conference: Thursday 17th of September
08.30 |
Registration & Breakfast |
09.10 |
Chair’ s Opening Remarks: Allan Guild, Director, Hilltop Walk Consulting |
Positioning for the Next FX Regime
09.15 Investment Outlook Panel: FX Regime Outlook 2027: How can you position portfolios to capture opportunities and manage risk across shifting regimes? With global growth uneven, inflation paths uncertain and policy divergence re-emerging, senior investors are reassessing how currency risk fits into multi-asset strategy. This panel brings together CIOs and senior multi-asset PMs to discuss how they frame FX exposure across regimes: when currencies diversify portfolios, when they amplify risk, and where selective opportunities are opening across developed and emerging markets. Speakers will explore how they balance return drivers, hedging discipline and volatility signals, and how they adapt frameworks as correlations shift. The discussion will also address the growing role of“ store-of-value” behaviour- from gold to commodities and alternative assets- when confidence in fiat regimes is challenged. A high-signal, investment-focused discussion on preparing portfolios for the FX regimes most likely to dominate in 2027 and beyond.
From Tokens to Currencies
Altaf Kassam, Independent Consultant Qian Liu, Senior Portfolio Manager, BNP Paribas Asset Management Clothilde Malaussene. Senior Portfolio Manager EM Debt and FX, Ostrum Asset Management Moderator: Erhard Radatz, Global Head of Portfolio Management, Invesco Quantitative Strategies, Invesco
09.50 DigiAssets Presentation: Buy-side readiness gap: What needs to change before on-chain markets work at institutional scale? As digital assets and on-chain instruments evolve, the buy side faces a fundamental shift in how markets could operate- but much of the infrastructure is not yet built for institutional workflows. This session explores what needs to change before adoption can scale, from governance, client mandates and risk ownership to system integration, operational readiness and regulatory clarity. With a focus on FX as a critical enabler, it also examines the role of digital currencies, settlement models and cross-border frictions- and why current market design still falls short of real-world trading requirements. Clear on what is real, what is missing, and what the industry must solve before on-chain adoption can scale.
Chetna Mistry, Senior Trader & Head of Portfolio Operations. Western Asset Management
10.10 Digital Assets Panel: Institutional digital assets: How will market structure, liquidity access and execution evolve to support institutional scale? As institutional participation in digital assets grows, attention is shifting from access to how trading works in practice. Liquidity remains fragmented across venues, execution models vary significantly, and consistency in pricing, counterparty risk and custody frameworks is still developing. This panel brings together buy-side, liquidity providers and platforms to assess how institutions are accessing liquidity today, what’ s working in execution, and where the gaps remain. A practical discussion on the structural, operational and risk considerations that need to be addressed for digital assets to scale within institutional trading workflows.
Dr. Diana- Cezara Toader, Head of Digital Assets, Asset Management, UBS Asset Management Liz Lawson, Lead Digital Assets Analyst, T. Rowe Price Alexander Metzger, Digital Assets Lead, Syz Group Moderator: Ian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer & Partner, ht. digital X2 Sponsors
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