Exclusive: Alex Mackinnon out as General Manager of FX broker AxiTrader and head of AxiPrime LeapRate

August 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Alex Mackinnon out as General Manager of FX broker AxiTrader and head of AxiPrime

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that longtime FX industry executive Alex Mackinnon has left his job as General Manager of Australia based Retail Forex broker AxiTrader. AxiTrader went outside its ranks (and its home continent) to hire Alex Mackinnon as General Manager in 2013, replacing Quinn Perrott. He had previously been Head of FX Prime…

December 12, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader hires Oanda's Head of China Forex Gavin Ward to head Business Development

AxiTrader CEO Rajesh Yohannan is dipping further into his pool of former colleagues to continue building the management team at Axi. After recently hiring Oanda Australia office head Louis Cooper as Global Head of Retail Services, Mr. Yohannan and his leading Australia-based retail forex broker AxiTrader has hired Forex industry veteran Gavin Ward as Global Head…

August 04, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader lands multi million dollar investment from private equity firm RGT Capital

AxiCorp Financial Services Pty Ltd, parent company of leading Australian retail forex and CFD broker AxiTrader, has announced that it has received an investment from private equity firm RGT Capital. Neither party gave much in terms of details of the transaction. However LeapRate has learned that it was a multi million dollar investment for a…

June 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

AxiTrader Chairman Goran Drapac on new CEO Rajesh Yohannan - who he's replacing, Goran's own new role...

Leading Australia-based retail forex broker AxiTrader quietly let it slip out that it has hired a new CEO, former OANDA Head of APAC Rajesh Yohannan (pictured at left). Yohannan will actually act as CEO of AxiTrader's parent company AxiCorp Financial Services Pty Ltd, which incorporates both its retail and institutional trading arms that operate mainly under the…

June 02, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

OANDA hires Saxo Bank veteran Kaz Takabatake as CEO of Asia Pacific

Retail forex broker OANDA has announced that Kazuaki 'Kaz' Takabatake has joined the firm as Managing Director and CEO of its Asia Pacific operations. Takabatake will be based in Singapore. He will be responsible for driving OANDA’s continued growth across the APAC region. He replaces Rajesh Yohannan, who had been APAC head for OANDA also out of Singapore since 2013.…

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