Refinitiv Onboards Eduard Poltavsky to Foreign Exchange Unit

Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has lured Eduard Poltavsky, who held several sales roles at major FX venues, to join the market development team at its Foreign Exchange Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv Read this Term unit.

In this role, Poltavsky will play a key role at Refinitiv’s FX business with a focus on doubling down on driving sales efforts, developing partnerships, expanding global reach, and growing value for clients and prospects.

Eduard is joining Refinitiv from FlexTrade, a specialist in multi-asset execution and order management systems, where he had been its FX sales manager for the EMEA region for nearly one year.

Prior to FlexTrade, Mr. Poltavsky served as Director of e-FX Sales at GTX, the institutional foreign exchange trading arm of GAIN Capital, which was sold last year to Deutsche Boerse’s FX unit, 360T. He also spent more than three years as Director of FX Sales at BATS Hotspot.

Previously, he held various sales positions at voice broker BGC Partners, covering Emerging Markets instruments, including Spot FX, Forwards and NDFs.

Poltavsky specializes in Russian ruble and other Eastern European currency pairs. He has originally started his career at Bloomberg back in 2007, where he co-managed a regional Russian sales team of 12 people and leading the company’s efforts to launch and implement FX in Eastern Europe.

Refinitiv doubles down in FX business

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