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The past twelve months have been rocky for investors. With geopolitical tensions and high inflation weighing down markets, can we expect activity to pick up in 2024? Euronext's CEO Stéphane Boujnah and Financial News's Justin Cash will pick over the key questions for the year ahead. Will IPOs rebound? Can Europe pull together to challenge the US? Which sectors could offer a welcome Christmas present?

Presenters
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Justin Cash
Online Editor, Financial News
Justin Cash is online editor at Dow Jones’s Financial News title. He was previously editor of Money Marketing magazine, and has also worked for titles including Legal Week and Citywire.

His work has featured in publications ranging from The Financial Times, The New Statesman, Total Politics and The Independent, to CityAM and The Huffington Post. During his time running Money Marketing, the magazine has won the Headline Money B2B Title of The Year Award. Individually, he has won a James Hay Award and the Personal Finance Awards’ Trade Journalist of the Year Award, and has been shortlisted in the Press Gazette Specialist Media and Santander Media Awards.

Cash graduated with a 2.1 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Durham University and has a masters in Investigative Journalism from City University, London.

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Stéphane Boujnah
CEO and Chairman, Managing Board, Euronext
Stéphane Boujnah is CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Euronext, the pan-European market infrastructure operating regulated markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo and Paris. Euoronext also operates post-trade infrastructures in Copenhagen, Milan, Oslo and Porto, as well as a pan-European electricity trading platform, NordPool, and a FX trading platform operating from New York London and Singapore. In addition, Euronext operates commercial and technology platforms in Bergen, Berlin, Espoo, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Munich, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vilnius.

Stéphane Boujnah became CEO of Euronext in November 2015 when the company had revenues below EUR 500m and a market capitalization below EUR 2bn. As of August 2023, Euronext generates revenues close to EUR 1.5bn and has a market capitalization between EUR 7bn and 8bn.

Stéphane Boujnah led the acquisitions of the Irish Stock Exchange in 2018, Oslo Børs in 2019, VP Securities in Copenhagen and NordPool in Oslo in 2020, and Borsa Italiana Group in 2021. Before joining Euronext, from 2010 to 2015, Stéphane Boujnah was part of the team in charge of developing the Banco Santander business across Europe. First, he was Head of Santander Global Banking and Markets for France and Benelux where he developed significantly the advisor business. He was then appointed Head of Santander Global Banking and Markets for Continental Europe.

From 2005 to 2010, he was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank responsible for the development of the investment banking operations in France.

Previously he founded and developed KM5 Capital, an advisory company specialized in equity raising and M&A advice for venture capital funds and innovative technology companies.

From 2000 to 2002, he was Director of the European M&A team of Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Group in Palo Alto (California) and London.

From 1997 to 1999, Stéphane Boujnah was adviser to the French Minister for Economy, Finance and Industry, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He was responsible for innovation policies, privatisations in the technology sector, international investments projects in France and the development of the New Economy.
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