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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Putting my decades of experience starting and running entrepreneurial institutional fintech businesses to the best possible use. Helping Banks, brokers, asset managers, exchanges and vendors to get stuff done! We help business leaders to bring their ideas to life, honing their thoughts and then building working prototypes in as little as 4 weeks at a fixed fee. Our clients best internal resources are always busy...FastFin is their secret weapon for quick wins.

FICCit is a fintech start-up incubation and advisory business. We consult, and we create. Working with a talented team of Financial Markets and technology professionals to create new, better fintech trading solutions across all asset classes, including crypto, as well as DLT-centric infrastructure projects and metaverse startups.

London, Gb

LoopFX is a new venue for large (>$10m) institutional foreign exchange trades. We took a completely novel approach, creating a unique set of solutions to allow buyside to buyside matching, as well as matching against bank axes and client orders. LoopFX’s technology is integrated into the leading FX trading platforms and requires no changes to existing credit facilities.As a member of the original founder team my role was to take the initial idea and mould it into a viable and highly attractive solution that appealed equally to banks, asset managers and their trading platforms. I also crafted the first technical specifications, assembled the rest of the management team, created innovative market simulators and analytics tools and leveraged my extensive personal network to develop the business. After more than two years helping to get LoopFX ready for launch I have now left my executive role (while remaining a supportive shareholder) so that I can return to focusing on providing similar strategic and tactical guidance to a wider group of businesses.www.theloopfx.com

Chicago, Il, Us

"One thing is for sure, CME has reason to be grateful to former EBS head Gil Mandelzis for driving diversity of product at the platform in 2012-13. I recall at the time there was some head-scratching over why different products were needed, but in EBS Direct, and more latterly EBS Institutional, which was born out of the Molten Markets project, a lifeline has been thrown to the core FX business." - Colin Lambert, thefullfx.com September 2021.Molten Markets Inc was acquired by the EBS Brokertec division of ICAP plc (now part of CME Group) in October 2015. Clients of the MoltenFX ECN were transferred to EBS Select, while InstiFX was re-branded as EBS Institutional. As part of the acquisition terms I stayed to lead that business serving the needs of asset managers globally, leveraging the products created by Molten Markets and the power of the CME franchise.I was initially contracted to stay for 2 years, but continued to lead EBSI for nearly 5 years as we established EBSI as the best of breed FX EMS and real-time TCA platform for asset managers.

New York, Us

Molten Markets was formed to build and operate high performance financial marketplaces, utilizing the latest technology to deliver truly transparent, honest and open trading environments with deep and consistent liquidity, ensuring provable best execution for every trade, through it's "big data" architecture.Molten Markets was a fintech startup which successfully built and launched a new FX marketplace (the MoltenFX ECN) and an industry leading FX EMS and TCA platform (InstiFX) and signed over 50 clients in less than 3 years. After being courted by several potential buyers, Molten was successfully sold to ICAP (now the CME Group) in late 2015.

Zurich, Ch

Created new global Fixed Income and FX ecommerce product and sales team from scratch, largely by re-assembling teams and individuals who had been displaced in the fallout from the financial crisis. Responsible for management of all aspects of electronic delivery of FX and Fixed Income services across 107 different channels, including sales, client support, external partners, platforms and vendors, proprietary GUI and API platforms, pricing, system design, development, testing, remediation, system operations, networks, etc.. Directly responsible for significant proportion of FX revenues.Key member of UBS ecommerce Board, which leads the development of a new cross-organisational ecommerce platform. Also key member of UBS FX strategy board, designing the post-reform business model for the FX markets.Significant achievements include: development and successful launch of UBS’s first end to end rebuild (after 10 years) of its flagship FXTrader platform, and; external recognition of the success of ecommerce strategy in 2011 Euromoney survey, where UBS moved up to 2nd place in eTrading (from 6th).

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for all aspects of creating and managing the Global Link business (which ran semi-autonomously within State Street), including business development and acquisitions. Member of the board of State Street subsidiaries: Currenex, Inc, State Street Global Markets, LLC, and SSI Search Limited. Also directly managed the WM Reuters FX benchmarking subsidiary. Global Link was conceived as a multi-asset class, multi-bank/broker open platform to enable professional fund managers to trade any asset class, anywhere, from one platform, fully integrated to their systems and processes. We launched and operated over 20 platforms, encompassing trading of Equities, Fixed Income (mainly Credit related), FX, Fund subscription, Commercial Paper, Money Markets, and Securities lending; novel Futures Clearing; ground-breaking research into investor behavior; post-trade confirmation and settlement systems; and chat products. FX Connect was the only FX platform on which all the major FX Banks provided liquidity, and on the buy-side it was used by firms who collectively managed 72% of the world’s assets, including 23 of the top 25 firms. The highest published daily volume on FX Connect was $156 billion (June 2008), making it by far the largest platform of its type.Joined State Street originally to design and build a new quantitative systematic currency overlay business from the ground up. Responsible for investment/trading philosophy as well as all operational and technology aspects of the business, and sales and client support. That business has become one of the largest in the industry.

I joined the Interest Rate products team initially, but then was encouraged to pursue my innovative nature and became responsible for the creation of a new currency overlay and corporate FX risk management product called MERIT. The model was a collaboration between my team and Leland, O’Brien, Rubinstein Associates (the inventors of Portfolio Insurance in Equities) in which we created new FX models on top of LOR’s base technology platform. MERIT was used mainly by large corporations for balance sheet and economic risk hedging, as well as the Bank itself for systematic management of its open options positions, and quantitative proprietary trading.

Windsor, Berkshire, Uk, Gb

Record was (and remains) a pioneer in the field of systematic trading. I was privileged to work with and learn from Neil Record in the earlier days of the firm’s history, where we managed substantial currency and equities programmes, and also advised clients on cross border bond issuance and complex leasing transactions. It was a fascinating and interesting firm where every assumption about market behavior was aggressively questioned, and often overturned.

Responsible for all business activity in southern half of UK for this startup export finance and foreign exchange business. My team were responsible for most of the revenue generated by the company. We made this into a very successful business, which was in direct competition with the UK banks, but had implicit support from Margaret Thatcher's government.

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