Katya Malinova

Talks

Upcoming and recent presentations, discussions, and invited talks. The full list is in my CV; slides for many talks are on slides.com.

Upcoming

  • Sep 2026 "The Data Toll" — 10th SAFE Market Microstructure Conference, LMU Munich, 18 September
  • Sep 2026 "Dethroning the Dollar? Optimal Multi-Asset Market Making" — Warwick Business School Gillmore Centre 5th Conference on DeFi & Digital Currencies, The Shard, London, 21 September
  • Dec 2026 "Dethroning the Dollar? Optimal Multi-Asset Market Making" — 8th Sydney Market Microstructure and Digital Finance Meeting, Sydney, 9–10 December
  • 2027 Invited seminar, Durham University Business School, UK

2025–26

  • "Dethroning the Dollar? Optimal Multi-Asset Market Making" — SAFE, Frankfurt; Women in Microstructure Meeting
  • "Learning from DeFi: Would Automated Market Makers Improve Equity Trading?" — Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Market Microstructure, Fields Institute, Toronto; CBER Forum and Uniswap Labs, Economics of Liquidity Provision, New York; University of Delaware and Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia FinTech and Financial Institutions Conference
  • Discussant — European Finance Association Meeting, Ghent (August 2026); 6th Annual CBER Conference, NYU Stern (June 2026); SNB–CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation, Zurich (May 2026); Northern Finance Association Meeting, Calgary (2025)

2024

  • "Learning from DeFi" — 11th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation, SEC headquarters, Washington DC; Western Finance Association Meeting, Honolulu; Australasian Banking and Finance Conference, Sydney
  • "The Impact of Blockchain on Business Models and Interactions in the Marketplace" — Future Perspectives of Blockchain, Lucerne (invited)
  • Invited seminars — University of Graz; Finance Innovations & AI Seminar, CIBC
  • Discussant — 4th Annual CBER Conference, NYU; Women in Market Microstructure Meeting, Honolulu; CBER CtCe Conference, New York

2023

  • "Learning from DeFi" — SAFE Annual Conference, Frankfurt; Women in Market Microstructure Workshop, San Francisco; Warwick Gillmore Centre Conference on DeFi & Digital Currencies, London; SNB–CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation, Zurich
  • "How to (and Not to) Regulate Crypto" — Desmarais Global Finance Lecture, McGill University (invited)
  • "Tokenized Stocks for Trading and Capital Raising" — Bank of Canada workshop on Payments and Securities Settlement, Ottawa
  • Discussant — HEC–McGill Winter Finance Workshop; European Finance Association, Amsterdam; Northern Finance Association, Toronto; 18th Central Bank Conference on Market Microstructure, Federal Reserve Board

Selected earlier

Work presented at the AFA, WFA, and EFA meetings, the NBER Market Microstructure meeting, NYU Stern, and the central-bank microstructure workshops, among others.

  • "Tokenomics: When Tokens Beat Equity" — Bundesbank Autumn Conference on Banking and Payments in the Digital World (2020, invited); Toronto FinTech Conference (2019)
  • "Sniping in Fragmented Markets" — Western Finance Association Meeting (2020); SAFE Microstructure Conference, Frankfurt (2020); Erasmus Liquidity Conference (2017); Northern Finance Association Meeting (2016); FIRN/UTS Microstructure Conference, Sydney (2016)
  • "Economics of Technology, Securities and Capital Markets" — Columbia/FINRA Technology Conference, New York (2019, invited)
  • "Market Design with Blockchain Technology" — NYU Stern FinTech Conference (2018, invited); Swedish House of Finance FinTech Conference (2017, invited); NBER Market Microstructure Meeting, Boston (2016); Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (2017); Women in Microstructure Meeting, Park City (2016)
  • "Regulating Dark Trading" — Plato–Imperial Market Innovator Conference, London (2017, invited); European Finance Association Meeting, Oslo (2017); NYU Stern Microstructure Meeting (2015); Women in Microstructure Meeting (2015)
  • "Do Retail Traders Suffer from High Frequency Traders?" — Western Finance Association Meeting, Lake Tahoe (2013); Central Bank Market Microstructure Workshop, Frankfurt (2013); UC Santa Cruz CAFIN Workshop (2014, invited); ILB Market Microstructure: Confronting Many Viewpoints, Paris (2014, invited)
  • "Informed Trading and Maker-Taker Fees in a Low-Latency Limit Order Market" — Western Finance Association Meeting, Lake Tahoe (2013); Erasmus Liquidity Conference (2013); Central Bank Workshop on Microstructure, Ottawa (2013)
  • "Subsidizing Liquidity" — American Finance Association Meeting, Chicago (2012); NYU Stern Microstructure Meeting (2011); Central Bank Workshop on Microstructure, Stavanger (2011)
  • "Liquidity, Volume, and Price Efficiency" — European Finance Association Meeting, Bergen (2009)