360T Expands Institutional Sales Team UK/IRL

April 2015

360T, the leading independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading portal, has appointed Andrew Priest as Head of Institutional Sales, UK/Ireland.

Andrew Priest has joined 360T as Head of Institutional Sales UK and Ireland, reporting to Alfred Schorno, Managing Director, 360T Group. Priest and his team are in charge of client acquisition across the UK and Ireland with a special focus on Real Money Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Banks, as well as delivering account management service for existing clients in that region.

Priest previously worked for nearly two decades at Northern Trust London, last as Head of FX Sales EMEA responsible for all aspects of the bank’s FX distribution across the region.

“We are more than pleased to have Andrew in our team, helping us to accelerate our client base growth further”, says Schorno. “We are looking forward to leveraging his extensive knowledge and relationship base with some of the world’s largest institutional clients in combination with our outstanding features and functionalities for that client segment.”

“This senior hire is to be seen in context with strong investments of 360T in workflow optimization, features and functionalities over the last two to three years and a row of hires for senior sales specialists in the US, the APAC region and other parts of EMEA and significant growth in that segment”, Schorno 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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