Nick Bang Email & Phone Number

Nick Bang is the co-founder of online FX brokerage firm Advanced Currency Markets (ACM), the 4th online FX broker to exist in the world at the time. He managed ACM as managing director and oversaw brokerage and market making operations from 2000 onwards.In 2000 he designed one of the first online FX trading platforms to exist from the ground up and was instrumental in designing the execution and routing infrastructure and constituting the very first FX API liquidity pools in existence. He designed the first algorithmic order routing processes allowing the company’s operations to take off. Eventually ACM reached levels between $45m and $75m in annual revenues.Together with his two partners he took the firm from startup to be one of the leading online foreign exchange brokers with 5 offices and more than 250 staff worldwide, transacting in excess of 2 billion USDs in daily volumes, an impressive daily turnover at the time.In 2010 he exited the online brokerage and market making sell-side and entered the buy-side prop trading and fund management space with the intention of combining both sell and buy-side knowhow to create high frequency algorithmic trading strategies and related technologies.Since then, he has managed investment funds, operated as a proprietary trader, launched new fintech ventures, created complex alpha capture and risk management systems and has accumulated a rare combination of buy-side, sell-side and highly technical skills with vast quantitative/algorithmic expertise and a passion for market structure, risk management and market neutral strategies.Core competences & expertise••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••- Statistical arbitrage- Market making- Cross-exchange arbitrage- FX liquidity management & market structure- Cryptocurrency liquidity management & market structure- FX algorithmic execution, order routing & price aggregation- Risk management- Algorithmic strategy design & implementation- FX prime brokerage- FX & multi-product technology design & implementation- Leadership & Management expertise- Deep product knowledge, FX, Crypto, equities, options & futures- Project management