Edgewater Markets
Edgewater Markets today announces that Banco del Estado de Chile, owned by the Republic of Chile, has gone live with its new trading platform. Edgewater adapted the proprietary technology of its EdgeFXLatam to provide BancoEstado with a customised solution for its internal users, onshore clients, and global offshore market participants. Leveraging the Chilean Electronic Stock […]
Edgewater Markets has unveiled EdgeFXLatam, a platform that leverages the firm’s proprietary technology and adapted specifically for Latin American markets. Edgewater says the platform is the first to offer local participants streamed price technology that integrates the local markets with the greater FX community, enabling banks to automate and optimise transaction flow with local clients, […]
Edgewater Markets has announced in a release that it handled $500 million in daily volume in spot gold and silver during the first half of 2020 – something the firm says is a significant year-on-year increase. With servers in LD4, NY4, and TY3, the firm offers spot gold and silver to its institutional clients with […]
Edgewater Markets has announced the appointment of Brian Andreyko as chief product officer to its management team. Andreyko joins from TradAir, where he was chief business officer, managing the firm’s senior client relationships and global account and liquidity management. He has also held a number of senior positions including CEO of MakoFX/Liquidity Pool, EVP and […]
Edgewater Markets has reshuffled two of its management team following on from the recent announcement of its digital asset-focused spin–off, Edgewater Digital Technologies (EDT). Jeff Johnson, who is currently the chief accounting and control officer at Edgewater Markets, will now also serve as the COO of EDT in addition to his existing role, while Matthew […]
Edgewater Markets has hired Phil Muldoon and David Fowler in its London office, and Ananda Ariesta and Marvin Ng in its Singapore office.In London, Muldoon has been handed the role of director of institutional e-FX Sales, prior to which he was global markets director, G10 FX and rates, at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi. Before that, he spent over 17 years at Credit Agricole, most recently as director on the FX trading and e-FX risk management teams. He has also worked at Credit Suisse, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and National Westminster Bank.Fowler, who joins Edgewater as institutional e-FX salesperson and trader, arrives from Sucden Financial, where he worked for over six years in different capacities, starting in operations within the e-FX brokerage business and then as an e-FX analyst on the sales desk. Fowler began his career at London Capital Group in institutional FX.
Edgewater Markets has made its dedicated Latin American currency and NDF trading platform, LatamFX.Pro, available to European clients.
The aim of the platform is to service the needs of local banks, pension funds, hedge funds, brokers and end users for the hedging and execution of Latin American FX and NDFs.
Initially launched in the LatAm region, Edgewater says that it is making the platform available to European clients due to strong initial demand from its customers in the region, who have historically found it challenging to access LatAm liquidity that is untouched by HFT and algo trading systems.
Terry Gill has joined IS Prime’s agency execution team in a newly created institutional sales role. The firm recently announced the addition of NDFs and forwards to meet the demands of its institutional clients.
Gill joins from Edgewater Markets, where he held the post of director, he began his career 10 years ago as a money broker at Tullett Prebon. After Tulletts he moved into a sales role with Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG) before helping to launch Edgewater in 2013, following the business’ decision to break from RCG.
Scott Mirsky has left his position as director, e-FX sales at Edgewater Markets, according to market sources.
Mirsky joined Edgewater Markets in 2015, prior to which he spent over four years at BNP Paribas, also in New York.
Before joining the French bank, Mirsky spent four years working as a business support analyst at Integral.
A spokesperson for Edgewater Markets did not respond to requests to confirm the news and Mirsky’s next destination is not known at this point in time.
Edgewater Markets is launching a local server in Tokyo.
The deployment of the server in the TY3 data centre will enable customers to connect directly to the Edgewater local environment.
The installation of the TY3 server follows a year’s worth of development by the firm.
It also follows a number of senior hires last year in Edgewater’s New York, London, Singapore and Mexico City offices and the launch of the first-ever local matching engine in Mexico City’s KIO-5 data centre.
