QuantBrains Seminar Series
Available on-demand
Oil: Futures and Physical World Collide
July 29th, 2020
In April 2020, the world saw one of the most dominant oil benchmarks reach an unimaginable new negative price. Register for our upcoming webinar to hear a conversation with industry leaders from the Intercontinental Exchange, S&P Global Platts, and Quantitative Brokers and learn:
What happened and could we see negative prices in oil again?
How does the future reflect the physical, how has this changed our understanding of the benchmark?
What will be the evolution of benchmark pricing and how we understand pricing and liquidity?
Speakers
Mike Wittner, Head of Oil Market Research, Intercontinental Exchange
Mike Wittner is Head of Oil Market Research for Intercontinental Exchange. Mike joined ICE in 2019. He leads a robust research effort to continuously analyze and anticipate changes in oil market structure and fundamentals. Mike and his team support oil sales and business development at ICE in creating new contracts and evolving existing contracts, in order to meet the hedging, trading, and investment needs of its customers around the world. With more than 25 years of experience in oil market analysis and, before that, 8 years of experience in the geosciences, Mike has extensive knowledge of the global and regional crude oil and refined product markets, geopolitics, and non-fundamental oil market drivers.
Richard Swann, Editorial Director for Americas Oil Markets, S&P Global Platts
Richard directs Platts team of oil editors based in Houston covering crude and refined product markets in the Americas, producing price assessments, market analysis and insight on a daily basis. Richard previously managed Platts global team of journalists reporting news for its real-time and print publications. Richard joined Platts in 1996 to launch the company’s European Natural Gas Report from London, and later became the Managing Editor for oil and gas news in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is a graduate in modern languages from the University of Bristol.
Jonty Field, Global Head of Product, Quantitative Brokers
Jonty is responsible for QB's product expansion efforts. He is instrumental in developing and delivering original, out-of-the-box solutions and strategies for benchmarking and achieving best execution. Prior to joining QB, Jonty was the Head of Trading Analytics at AHL where he established and led the analytics team. It was in this role where Jonty established himself as an algo trading expert through his background as an e-trading specialist and research analyst. He has worked closely with regulators in the US and Europe and is widely recognized as a leader in research of the impact of regulatory changes from Dodd-Frank/EMIR/MiFID II.
