Agenda

Wednesday 22

April 2026

6 hours

Duration forum

Location

Stanhope Hotel Brussels

13:00

Welcome Coffee

13:30

Introduction

Marko Niemi

Chair, Nordic Securities Association

13:40

Keynote Speech

14:00

Building competitive and efficient EU Capital markets - Global dimension of financial markets

MODERATOR

William Wright

New Financial

PANELISTS

Tanya Panova

Head of CMU Unit, European Commission

Adam Kostyál

Senior Vice President and Head of Listings EMEA, Nasdaq Nordic

Aleksandra Maczynska

Chief Executive Officer, Better Finance

Andy Mitchell

President & Chief Executive Officer, The Securities and Investment Management Association of Canada

Phil Mackintosh

Chief Economist, Nasdaq

14:50

Coffee break

15:15

Creating an effective supervisory model for EU financial markets

MODERATOR

Urban Funered

Chief Executive Officer, Swedish Securities Markets Association

PANELISTS

Marcus Ferber

Member of European Parliament

Daniel Andersson

Head of Capital Markets, Handelsbanken

Armi Taipale

Head of Capital Markets Supervision, Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority

Sandrine Ménard

Deputy Director of Financing of Companies and of Financial Markets, French Treasury

Roland Chai

President of European Market Services, Nasdaq

Iliana Lani

Head of Conduct Supervision and Convergence Department, ESMA

16:00

Digitalisation and tokenization of financial markets

PANELISTS

Mattias Levin

Deputy Head of Digital Finance Unit, DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Eun Ah Choi

Senior VP, Global Head of Regulatory Operations, Nasdaq

Andreas Karlsson

Strategic Advisor, DNB

16:45

Conclusions

Roland Chai

President of European Market Services, Nasdaq

17:00

Networking drinks