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Marcel Rothacker

Marcel Rothacker

Marcel Rothacker, FRM, is Head of Derivatives Trading Development at Eurex, the Frankfurt-based derivatives exchange.

Jul 29, 2026

25:16
What are some of those challenges you're seeing right now in terms of onboarding these third party firms, sir?
25:21
Yeah, I mean, top priority is obviously, as Russell said, to make the buy side happy.
25:26
And so we try to work with third-party vendors in doing that.
25:32
I mean, there are a lot of vendors out there.
25:34
There was some consolidation and some M&A activities between vendors, but we still have a lot of them and they need to connect to a lot of markets.
25:43
with their own market models, with own standards, with own interfaces.
25:47
So on their side, they need to also prioritize on what to support and what not to support.

27 MINS LATER

52:31
But Marcel, you are our... dedicated platform guy here on the show you get to explain all of the uh platforms with interesting spellings going on over there at year x you broke down zetra for us and now tell our listeners what is uh the n light platform sir e-n-l-i-g-h-t sir no pronounced word there we go i'm one for two so far
25:16
What are some of those challenges you're seeing right now in terms of onboarding these third party firms, sir?
25:21
Yeah, I mean, top priority is obviously, as Russell said, to make the buy side happy.
25:26
And so we try to work with third-party vendors in doing that.
25:32
I mean, there are a lot of vendors out there.
25:34
There was some consolidation and some M&A activities between vendors, but we still have a lot of them and they need to connect to a lot of markets.
25:43
with their own market models, with own standards, with own interfaces.
25:47
So on their side, they need to also prioritize on what to support and what not to support.

27 MINS LATER

52:31
But Marcel, you are our... dedicated platform guy here on the show you get to explain all of the uh platforms with interesting spellings going on over there at year x you broke down zetra for us and now tell our listeners what is uh the n light platform sir e-n-l-i-g-h-t sir no pronounced word there we go i'm one for two so far

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