Britannia Global Masrket The Group’s brokerage business arm, Britannia Global Masrket Limited, has appointed Steve Pettitt as CEO. Current CEO, Ian Johnson will remain in his position until the transition is complete to ensure smooth handover. Pettitt currently serves as Director of Sales and has been instrumental in the growth of the company over the…
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Furthermore, Britannia will also become XCore community members. Samuel Gunter, Head of Foreign Exchange Trading, commented: We are excited to grow our Prime Brokerage offering to include CFDs and further expand our technological infrastructure, which will allow us to effectively service the increasing demand from our clients.
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Clients can access the Prime Direct Platform via StoneX’s digital platform allowing them to trade US equity and options while leveraging StoneX’s white-glove service and technical expertise. The Prime Direct offering is designed to make prime brokerage services that are provided by top-tier financial institutions to clients with the institutional-grade algo order routing that emerging…
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Gibraltar-based crypto exchange Huobi offers their own brokerage services as an additional service for institutional clients, although finding companies that offer full range of prime brokerage tools is rare. Headquartered in London, Bequant offers its clients access to spot trading at exchanges and OTC desks. Zarya has said that the firm plans to offer derivative…
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Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas reached a master transaction agreement yesterday. According to Reuters, the transaction happens in order to assure service continuity to Deutsche’s global prime finance and electronic equities clients. Deutsche Bank said in a statement on Monday that it will continue to operate the platform until clients can be migrated to BNP…
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Lightspeed Institutional, a division of Lightspeed Trading LLC, is broadening its offering to institutional traders by launching a new prime brokerage division. As part of this launch, Lightspeed has added senior staff to help meet the unique needs of its small to mid-size hedge fund clients. Lightspeed Trading has specialized in serving the active trading community…
Read moreInternational derivatives broker Sucden Financial today announced that Michael Davies has been promoted to Head of eFX Sales EMEA following a period of significant growth at the London-based prime of prime brokerage. Davies joined Sucden Financial as an analyst over a decade ago back in 2004 before moving into its eFX business in 2011. He…
Read moreFXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) continues the rebuilding of its FX trading franchise. The provider of FX trading and related services today announced the relaunch of FXCMPro.com, its institutional prime brokerage arm. LeapRate had exclusively reported last year that FXCM was looking for a buyer for FXCMPro, as it was looking generally to sell assets to pay…
Read moreGlobal Prime Partners, provider of prime brokerage, execution and clearing services to a wide variety of clients, today announced the appointment of Sean Capstick as Head of Prime Brokerage. The appointment is effective immediately. Mr Capstick has set some ambitious aims for the corporate business. He expects to double the size of the company’s broking…
Read moreBTIG's Prime Brokerage business delivers comprehensive solutions for hedge funds and separately managed accounts with a focus on emerging fund managers.
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