Edgar
Perez, former McKinsey and IBM consultant, is a global expert, author
of The Speed Traders, Knightmare on Wall Street, and the course
director of The Speed Traders Workshop 2015 Kuala Lumpur, "How
Banks, Hedge and Mutual Funds and Brokers Battle Markets 'RIGGED' by
Wall Street's 'Flash Boys', High-frequency Trading, Exchanges and
Dark Pools".
New
York City, NY, USA (May 24, 2015) -- The Speed Traders Workshop
2015 Kuala Lumpur, "How Banks, Hedge and Mutual Funds and
Brokers Battle Markets 'RIGGED' by Wall Street's 'Flash Boys',
High-frequency Trading, Exchanges and Dark Pools"
(http://www.thespeedtradersworkshop.com),
is the first and most comprehensive initiation to the world of
high-frequency trading with Edgar Perez, author of Knightmare on Wall
Street (http://www.knightmareonwallstreet.com),
and will open the door to the secretive world of computerized
low-latency trading, the most controversial form of investing today;
in the name of protecting the algorithms they have spent so much time
perfecting, speed traders almost never talk to the press and try to
disclose as little as possible about how they operate.
The
Speed Traders Workshop 2015 Kuala Lumpur covers the latest research
currently available and reveals how high-frequency trading players
are operating in global markets and driving the development of
electronic trading at breakneck speeds from the U.S. and Europe to
Japan, India, and Brazil. The "flash crash", the suspended
BATS IPO, the botched Facebook IPO, Knight Capital's trading
malfunction and NASDAQ's Flash Freeze are just a few of the
milestones in the history of high-frequency trading that will be
dissected with participants.
ABOUT
EDGAR PEREZ
Mr.
Perez is the author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall
of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013),
and The Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency
Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World,
published in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Published in
Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi
Super Kilat, published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).
Mr.
Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's
Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box,
FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell,
Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Sina Finance,
BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com,
Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business Tonight and
Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has been featured
on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc,
AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures, Tongxin Securities,
ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua, CBN
Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International Finance
News, hexun.com, Finance.QQ.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea Times,
The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9, iMoney
Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal
Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.
Mr.
Perez has been engaged to present to the Council on Foreign
Relations, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev),
Quant Investment & HFT Summit APAC 2012 (Shanghai), U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore,
Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences at New York University, University of International Business
and Economics (Beijing), Hult International Business School
(Shanghai) and Pace University (New York), among other public and
private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number
of global conferences, including Cyber Security World Conference 2014
(New York), Inside Market Data 2013 (Chicago), Emerging Markets
Investments Summit 2013 (Warsaw), CME Group's Global Financial
Leadership Conference 2012 (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business
School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston),
High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan
Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional
Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis
Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia
(London).
Mr.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM,
and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City.
Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance.
Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of
Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master
of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York,
with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the
Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York
City area with his wife Olga, son Edgar Felipe and daughter Svetlana
Sofia.
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