The AFM Annual Conference serves as a connection point among member and partner organisations and as such enables participants to strengthen their relationship and to transfer and share information and experience. This has since become the underlying ethos of the AFM which has become increasingly important in today’s fast moving markets.
The 28th Annual Conference returns to the dynamic city of Taipei, one of ASIA’s most vibrant financial and innovation hubs. The event is hosted by TAIFEX, one of AFM’s most supportive members. TAIFEX keeps abreast with the trendy development of global markets, and maintains a fully-fledged platform of its trading, clearing and market oversight functions. To create effective mechanisms for trading and clearing of derivative products, TAIFEX has been sparing no efforts in upgrading its facilities, streamlining its practices as well as stimulating trading activities in Taiwan, enabling our market to fulfill its hedging and price discovery functions and achieve its mandate to serve the real economy.
The conference agenda provides an opportunity for comparing perspectives and experiences ont he following topics:
- Asia’s Futures Markets at Crossroads: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
- New trends 1: Tokenization of Collateral/Settlement, Co-location of Products, Services and Client Clearing
- New trends 2: Retail engagement ramp up; Extended trading hours (is it worth it?) impact on markets and exchanges
- Commodities: in an environment where spot markets dominate, geopolitical shifts and climate change all support increased volatility: what opportunities are there for frontier commodity exchanges to consider.
- Case Studies of Excellence
- AI and Infrastructure: what to expect next!
- Non-Traditional Products including the Digitization of Real-World Assets – what does this all mean for product development
For detailed agenda please contact conference@afmorg.net
The Conference venue is the Taipei Marriott Hotel. For sleeping room reservation details, please contact conference@afmorg.net
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Agenda
June 4, 2026
09:00 – 09:10
Conference Welcoming Remarks
09:10 –09:20
Keynote Address
09:20-10:05
SESSION 1:
Regional Panel: Asia’s Futures Markets at Crossroads: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
Exploring recent developments across Asia’s futures markets amid shifting global dynamics, the discussion will address market access, product innovation, technology adoption, and key opportunities and challenges shaping regional growth.
10:05 – 10:30
Coffee/Tea and Networking
10:30 – 11:20
SESSION 2:
New trends 1: Tokenization of Collateral/Settlement, Co-location of Products, Services and Client Clearing
All these are key trends exchanges are grappling with, panelist will unpack each of them to understand what opportunities and/or pitfalls await as exchanges strive to grow their market share in an ever increasing global competitive landscape.
11:20 – 11: 40
Coffee/Tea and Networking
11.40 – 12:20
SESSION 3:
New trends 2: Retail engagement ramp up; Extended trading hours (is it worth it?) impact on markets and exchanges
As many global markets look to expand their retail participation, this panel will focus on all the latest innovations targeting this customer base, frank discussion what has worked thus far and what other changes lie ahead for this sector.
12:20 – 14:00
Lunch and Networking
14:00 – 14:20
Keynote Presentation
Taiwanese industry speaker
14:20 – 15:00
SESSION 4:
Commodities: in an environment where spot markets dominate, geopolitical shifts and climate change all support increased volatility: what opportunities are there for frontier commodity exchanges to consider.
Seasoned commodity market practitioners will present what actions are required by exchanges to support their services and what are the innovative instruments and AI enhancements needed to sell the concept of value addition in a more formalized commodity exchange space. Is there a place to empower producers’ income as well as the value chain at all and can commodity exchange offer this?
15:00 – 15:20
Coffee/Tea and Networking
15:20 – 16:45
Case Studies of Excellence
TAIFEX
16:45
Invitation to AFM Trends Day 2026 in Malta
17:00
Day Concludes
18:00
Dinner at Inge’s Bar & Grill (Taipei Marriott Hotel, 20F)
June 5, 2026
08:00-09:00
AFM Assembly (members only)
09:00– 09:30
Keynote Presentation/Fireside Chat
09:30 –10:20
SESSION 5:
AI and Infrastructure: what to expect next!
The session will explore how exchange operators can unlock future value by combining modern data architectures with applied AI – bridging the technical realities of integrating a multitude of datasets, automating data quality, enabling real-time intelligence with the ultimate purpose to extract commercial opportunities from this. By bringing together leaders from market infrastructure, the discussion will highlight practical solutions for moving from legacy data silos to a unified intelligence layer that supports advanced analytics at scale.
10:20 – 10:40
Coffee/Tea and Networking
10:40 – 11:30
SESSION 6:
Non-Traditional Products including the Digitization of Real-World Assets – what does this all mean for product development.
This panel will provide extensive discussion into new product opportunities away from the traditional thinking and how these align with digital innovations with the underlying physical product to ensure price integrity and price convergence.
11.30 – 12:00
Presentation: Cultural Theme
12:00– 12:05
Invitation to the 2027 AFM Annual Conference
12:05– 13:30
Lunch and Networking
14:00
Post Conference Activity: Local Tour & Dinner
Pricing
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AFM is a not-for-profit association so our conference registration fees are moderate, the prime aim is to cover our costs.
Deadline for early-bird registrations: May 1, 2026.
