BTL Group Ltd. (CVE:BTL) announced that it has hired a Head of Marketing, Stella Hall, and Business Development Manager, Jonathan Jones, as the firm commences its sales and marketing drive to bring its proprietary blockchain platform Interbit to market. We are looking for exceptional sales and marketing people to join our team and help build…
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BlockEx just announced that Ronald Martin has just joined the company as COO. Ronald Martin, former Executive in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures, leaves the traditional financial world to bring his financial platform experience to the blockchain. Martin brings years of experience in FinTech and SaaS as former Senior Vice President & General Manager of…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that learned that Simon Henry has resigned his position as Compliance Officer of FCA regulated Goldenway Global Investments (UK) Limited, which operates the GWFX Global retail FX and CFD brokerage brand (at gwfxglobal.com). Simon Henry, GWFX Simon Henry was hired by GWFX just three months ago from London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG), where…
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NZX just announced the appointment of Hugh Stevens to lead the exchange’s funds management business, effective Monday 5 February 2017. Hugh Stevens will oversee NZX’s Auckland based Smartshares exchange traded funds (ETF) business and its superannuation and KiwiSaver business, SuperLife. He will report to NZX CEO Mark Peterson and the Smartshares Board. Stevens is the…
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Monex Group, Inc. announced changes in management, personnel and organization of Monex, Inc. (TYO:8698), its wholly owned subsidiary. The Management Changes are effective January 1, 2018 and include: Nozomi Takasaki - Managing Director Senior Executive Director (Johmu) Satoshi Hasuo - Managing Director Senior Executive Director (Johmu) Takuya Yamanaka - Senior Executive Director (Johmu) Monex, Inc. will also make…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Marc P. Berger has been named Director of the New York Regional Office. He will join the agency in January 2018. Mr. Berger is presently global co-head of Ropes & Gray LLP’s Securities and Futures Enforcement Practice. Before joining Ropes & Gray, Mr. Berger spent 12 years…
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Online gaming and financial trading systems provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has announced the proposed internal corporate re-organisation of the Playtech BGT Sports division ('PBS'). Following the acquisition of Best Gaming Technology GbmH ('BGT') which was announced on 13 July 2016, Playtech established PBS, its new sports division led by Dr Armin Sageder. At the time of…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Matthew Wright has left his CEO position at FCA regulated Retail FX broker Destek Markets, to become CEO of rival broker Capital Index. The move comes less than a year after Mr. Wright was brought in to build a team and run the UK arm of Turkey-based Destek by…
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The New Zealand Stock Exchange Board today announced the appointment of Nigel Babbage as a director. Babbage has more than 30 years’ experience working in financial and capital markets. This includes 18 years abroad where he held executive roles with British Petroleum (now BP) and Citibank, managing the New York currency derivatives desk. In addition…
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FlexTrade today announced the expansion of its EMEA sales team with the hiring of a new Multi-Asset Sales Director, Manuela Bauer. The expansion of the team comes at the end of a successful year of cross-asset innovation for the business. Manuela Bauer will be responsible for further strengthening FlexTrade’s capability in multi-asset class sales. She…
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