OANDA Names Emmanuel Coulon as its Chief Technology Officer

OANDA has announced its first appointment for 2020, with the online multi-asset trading services provider announcing this Monday that it has secured Emmanuel Coulon as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Coulon has worked in the technology space for more than three decades. During this time, he has held leading positions at top financial firms, such as Reuters and ICAP, among others.

He joins OANDA from ADSS, where he was the Global Head of Technology, a role he held since June of 2018. At ICAP, where he spent more than five years, he was also the CTO, Trading, and Enterprise Infrastructure.

Emmanuel Coulon to drive OANDA tech strategy

As the CTO of OANDA, Coulon is based in London. In his new role, he will be responsible for driving the company’s global technology strategy and providing technical leadership across all areas of the business, according to the statement released by OANDA.

Commenting on the appointment, Gavin Bambury, Chief Executive Officer of OANDA, said in the statement: “With almost 30 years’ experience, Emmanuel combines deep-seated technical expertise with an in-depth understanding of the electronic trading industry, which will be critical to our success as we explore new ways to Leverage Leverage In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders Read this Term our technology and drive future growth. I’m delighted to welcome him as our new Chief Technology Officer.”

Coulon spent nearly four years at Reuters. He first joined the company in 1991 as a Software Engineer. Three years later, in 1994, he was promoted to the role of Open Systems Specialists.

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