Frankfurt am Main – 360T Group, Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX and independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, continuous to invest in accelerating its strong growth path by making a high caliber addition to its Management.
Simon Jones has been appointed as Chief Growth Officer and will be a member of 360T’s Global Executive Board. He will be based in London and reports directly to Carlo Kölzer, Founder and CEO of 360T Group.
Simon Jones who has a 20-year career in the FX industry, was a Managing Partner at MakoFX and most recently ran the eFX consultancy firm PierrepointFX, focused on helping banks, brokers and funds optimize their eFX solutions. Prior to that he worked for 16 years at Citigroup in New York and London, last as Head of FX and Liquidity Electronic Trading. Jones’ role at Citigroup involved leading the global efforts for Electronic Market Making, Algorithmic Execution and Aggregation across FX and local markets.
Carlo Kölzer, CEO 360T Group, said: “We are very excited to welcome Simon joining us as a new member of 360T’s Global Executive Board. He will take responsibility for further accelerating our global growth. His hiring is to be seen in the context of 360T’s and Deutsche Börse Group’s strong investments in developing and offering a new and unique ecosystem for the FX market. This is a truly hybrid model, where exchange trading, FX OTC Clearing, FX Futures as well as Rolling Spot Futures live alongside the more traditional OTC FX activity.”
“Simon is a great addition to our team who brings significant experience and market knowledge in order to strengthen our sales activities in a multi-dimensional market. He will focus on growing our existing business and product suite, and in addition he will drive the launch and adoption of our FX 2.0 CLOB and ECN initiative for our OTC and on-exchange trading environment”, Kölzer added.
About 360T Group
360T is an independent and globally-established trading venue. Its fast growth confirms the company’s status as a provider of web-based trading technology for over-the-counter (OTC) instruments, integration solutions and related services. Since its inception in 2000, the company has developed and maintained a state-of-the-art multi-bank portal for foreign exchange, cash and money market products and FX/interest rate derivatives.
360T’s secure global transaction network enables clients to trade with greater transparency and enhanced control at every stage of the trading lifecycle. The company also offers licensing of a hosted white labelled trading technology between a scalable group of price-takers and either proprietary price providers or a rich choice of back-to-back liquidity sources. 360T’s buy-side clients are national and multinational corporate treasuries, institutional clients (asset managers, hedge funds, commodity trading advisors), broker/dealers and banks. The company is authorised under German law and regulated by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
Headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 360T maintains subsidiaries in New York (360 Trading Networks Inc), Singapore (360T Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.), India (ThreeSixty Trading Networks (India) Pvt Ltd) and Dubai (360 Trading Networks LLC).
Further information: www.360t.com
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