New York and Frankfurt am Main – January 12, 2017 – 360T Group, Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX and independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, has appointed Jack Linker as the Head of Bank and Hedge Fund Sales for the Americas. He will be based in New York where he reports to Matt O’Hara, CEO 360T Americas.
Jack Linker, who has a 41-year career in the FX industry, joins 360T from Thomson Reuters, New York, where he was the Head of FX liquidity Sales & Management for the Americas. His role at Thomson Reuters involved leading the regional liquidity sales and account management efforts for Wholesale, Prime Broker and B2C markets FX Spot, Forwards and OTC Derivatives.
Prior to this Linker was a Senior Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald, New York where he developed and marketed the first screen-based Foreign Exchange Forward Brokerage business in the inter-bank market.
Matt O’Hara, CEO Americas, said: “We are very excited to welcome Jack who is a high caliber market veteran that brings a wealth of FX industry experience combined with an unparalleled depth of understanding of the bank and hedge fund markets. Jack is well positioned for leading our growth strategy across these client segments in the Americas, focusing on growing our existing business and product suite in addition to being responsible for driving the launch and subsequent adoption of our FX 2.0 CLOB and ECN initiative for OTC Trading.“
About 360T Group
360T is an independent and globally-established trading venue. As Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX, 360T provides a 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 authorized 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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