The Board of Directors of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) has today announced that elected Harald Waiglein as its Chairman. Mr Waiglein replaces Hans Vijlbrief, who served as Chairman of the Board since 2014 and was appointed President of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) on 22 January 2018. Harald Waiglein joined the Austrian Ministry…
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CFH Systems just announced that it has appointed FX technology specialist Alex Yap in Singapore in a senior institutional sales role. Alex Yap will be responsible for sales across Asia. He will work closely with CFH Systems’ teams in Hong Kong and Tokyo, reporting directly into Alex Mackinnon, Head of Asia, who is also based…
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LeapRate Exclusive... New Pepperstone CEO Tamas Szabo continues to make his mark on the company, which - not surprisingly - is now including bringing in some of his former IG Australia colleagues, who helped Mr. Szabo grow London based IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) into the leading online broker down under. LeapRate has learned that…
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Minister Hoekstra of the Dutch Ministry of Finance informed that he has appointed Martin van Rijn as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). The appointment is as of 1 February 2018 for a period of 4 years. Martin van Rijn is the chairman of the Board…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade today announced the appointment of Paul Thomas as Vice President, FX Business Development for both the buy-side and sell-side markets in the Americas. With the FX buy-side community looking to increase its aggregation and trading execution, FlexTrade is perfectly positioned to help them achieve these goals,” said…
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IS Prime, part of ISAM Capital Markets, just announced that it has appointed Daniel Crane, former Tickstarter COO, as Deputy Head of Electronic Trading Solutions (ETS). In this newly created role, Daniel Crane will report directly to IS Prime’s Head of ETS, Barry Flanigan. His remit includes a specific focus on advanced technical client integrations.…
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Independent Reserve, the Australian Digital Currency exchange, has announced that has added two executives to its senior management team as the company turns its attention to its growing stable of institutional and SMSF clients. Roman Stefanidi joined Independent Reserve as Chief Technology Officer in August, and Lasanka Perera as Head of Strategy in October. CEO…
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Calypso Technology Inc., a provider of cloud-enabled capital markets and investment management software and services, today announced that Steve Tucker has joined Calypso Technology as Chief Sales Officer and member of the Executive Committee. Based in the London office but with global coverage, Steve will oversee all Sales, Marketing, Presales and Sales Operations activity for…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australian Retail FX broker Blueberry Markets has added to its business development team, recruiting Ben Clay, a senior executive from Royal Financial Trading’s Australian operation. He had also spent seven years as a senior sales trader at AxiTrader. Ben Clay joins Dean Hyde and Tim Mansell as the latest high…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade today announced the appointment of Paul Alves as Senior Vice President, Global FX Business Development, with a focus on expanding the company’s buy-side trading solutions to asset managers. According to Alves, automation efficiency, execution flexibility and cost conciseness for both the asset manager and their bank partners, are…
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