Before his tenure at FXTM, he served as Senior Director for Saxo Markets for period of one year and two months. However, Marcelo spent better part of last decade serving in senior management roles at Gain Capital having remained at the firm for period of nine years and seven months. Marcelo served at Gain Capital prior to joining Saxo Markets and joined the firm back in August 2008 in the role of Senior Vice President of Global Operations. After serving in the role for nearly seven and a half years he was promoted to role of Head of Partnerships back in August of 2015. Marcelo started his career in financial services industry while he was still pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Chicago. He started out as an intern at Paine Webber where he remained for two years. He moved on to Morgan Stanley post graduation and served in capacity of Associate for four years post which he served for two years as Vice President of Finance and Business Development for iSay Inc for another two years.
Marcelo joins the firm when it is at its peak of its expansion phase given its activities to expand its global footprint. Aside from its UK license, it had also been serving clients based out of Australia for quite a while now having acquired a license from Australian Securities and investments Commissions. The firm also recently acquired a license to operate in South Africa and started a new office in the country. With the acquisition of this license the firm’s product portfolio now also includes South African assets in its list of international products which consists of single stock CFD’s, stock indices, currencies and commodities via its trading platform. Aside from expanding its global footprint, the firm’s business also expanded in trade technology services given its launch of new product package consisting of customized algorithmic and automated trading solutions which have been dubbed as Think Zero. Aside from the trading solutions, it also provides order management system which facilitates low spreads and fast order execution on wide array of financial derivative products.
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