Spotex, an innovative FX electronic communication network (ECN) has hired John Miesner to its senior management team as Global Head of Sales and Distribution. Spotex offers exchange technologies that build and apply quantitative metrics to participants based on their trading behaviour. Its clients base includes banks, brokers, hedge funds, CTAs and asset manager.
John Miesner has deep experience and knowledge of the forex industry which dates back to 2000 and Spotex looks forward to utilising the experience in strengthening its global sales capabilities and expanding its reach.
John Miesner joins Spotex from GTX, which is an institutional foreign exchange platform where he spent four years of his long career. At GTX he was responsible for global ECN sales based out of New York. And his resignation also marks the first senior staff departure to be announced since 360T agreed to buy GTX last year.
Prior to GTX, he was Head of Sales at KCG Hotspot, working in a variety of senior roles in his 14 years with the company. KCG Holding then moved forward to sell its FX trading platform, KCG Hotspot to BATS Global and then itself to Virtu Financial for $1.4 billion, due to tough market conditions.
VIBHS FInancial Taps Miles Eakers as its Business Development Manager
London based VIBHS Financial, providing rolling Spot Forex, CFD trading and related services have onboarded Miles Eakers as Business Development Manager.
Eakers has joined VIBHS from Centtrip, where he was Chief Market Analysis. Before that, he has co-founded Chancery Lane Traders and was Technical Sales and FX Trader at SAVI Trading. Eakers has started his career in the forex industry at ETrade back in 2008.
VIBHS is an FCA regulated brokerage company, got its license in 2014, and offers an array of products and services to retail and professional traders. The UK unit is led by CEO Angus Irvine.
The firm has a strong presence in China and other emerging markets. The company is focusing on growing its revenue share from outside Europe aftermath the introduction of a new regulatory framework. Eakers joins at a crucial time when the industry is facing magnitudes of ESMA related regulation issues which has been felt widely across the industry.
