Kevin Gillespie, a
longtime forex sales executive, has taken up a new role at financial services
company Nomura’s digital asset subsidiary, Laser Digital. The new role involves
forex distribution, Gillespie announced today (Monday) on LinkedIn.
Japan-based Nomura
launched Laser Digital in September last year and incorporated the business in Switzerland. The new subsidiary focuses on secondary
trading, venture capital and investor products.
Gillespie brings over 30 years of industry experience to the new role. In the past three decades, he has worked for companies such as Spotex, Cobalt, BATS and Knight Capital Group.
The senior executive
joins Laser Digital after over a year at New York-headquartered asset
management firm, Menai Financial Group, where he helped built
client partnerships from London. His new role at Nomura is also based in
London.
Before joining Menai in
April last year, he was the Director of Institutional Sales at Spotex.
Previously, Gillespie served in a sales and
business development role at Cobalt between 2017 and 2019.
Furthermore, Gillespie spent over two and half years at BATS Global
Markets, serving as the Director of FX Sales. In this role, he helped the
company grow its hotspot forex marketplace.
However, he had his longest career stint at
Knight Capital Group, a market maker later acquired by Getco LLC in 2013. He served the firm for over eight years, leaving as Vice President of FX Sales in March
2015.
Between 1988 and 1997,
Gillespie was an FX Trader at Toronto Dominion Bank, CME Group’s Union Cal Futures and
the Japanese financial institution, Bank of Yokohama. He became a Senior Dealer
at the defunct firm Banca di Roma in May 1997 and was later appointed as the Head of New Business
Development at IFX Markets in 2003.
In recent months, other
forex industry veterans have also taken up new roles at various organizations: Tim Rudland moved to MultiBank Group, while Andres Cifuentes, Chan Chong San and Sandip Sen all joined Edgewater. In addition, Fred Scala joined Direct Trading Technologies as the Managing Director of B2B.
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Kevin Gillespie, a
longtime forex sales executive, has taken up a new role at financial services
company Nomura’s digital asset subsidiary, Laser Digital. The new role involves
forex distribution, Gillespie announced today (Monday) on LinkedIn.
Japan-based Nomura
launched Laser Digital in September last year and incorporated the business in Switzerland. The new subsidiary focuses on secondary
trading, venture capital and investor products.
Gillespie brings over 30 years of industry experience to the new role. In the past three decades, he has worked for companies such as Spotex, Cobalt, BATS and Knight Capital Group.
The senior executive
joins Laser Digital after over a year at New York-headquartered asset
management firm, Menai Financial Group, where he helped built
client partnerships from London. His new role at Nomura is also based in
London.
Before joining Menai in
April last year, he was the Director of Institutional Sales at Spotex.
Previously, Gillespie served in a sales and
business development role at Cobalt between 2017 and 2019.
Furthermore, Gillespie spent over two and half years at BATS Global
Markets, serving as the Director of FX Sales. In this role, he helped the
company grow its hotspot forex marketplace.
However, he had his longest career stint at
Knight Capital Group, a market maker later acquired by Getco LLC in 2013. He served the firm for over eight years, leaving as Vice President of FX Sales in March
2015.
Between 1988 and 1997,
Gillespie was an FX Trader at Toronto Dominion Bank, CME Group’s Union Cal Futures and
the Japanese financial institution, Bank of Yokohama. He became a Senior Dealer
at the defunct firm Banca di Roma in May 1997 and was later appointed as the Head of New Business
Development at IFX Markets in 2003.
In recent months, other
forex industry veterans have also taken up new roles at various organizations: Tim Rudland moved to MultiBank Group, while Andres Cifuentes, Chan Chong San and Sandip Sen all joined Edgewater. In addition, Fred Scala joined Direct Trading Technologies as the Managing Director of B2B.
CNMV’s new warning; recurring payments by Praxis; read today’s news nuggets.
