Laurent Danesi landed a new role as the Chief Innovation Officer of smartTrade Technologies, a provider of multi-asset electronic trading and payments based in France. Danesi is a veteran technology expert who has been with smartTrade Technologies for more than 20 years.

Other Roles at smartTrade Technologies

According to his LinkedIn profile, he joined the firm as a System Architect in 2004. Since then, he has held other roles in the firm, including serving as the Chief Architect, Head of Product Development, and now promoted to Chief Inovation Officer on a permanent basis.

In September, smartTrade Technologies announced yet another major executive move by promoting Catherine Bran-Morales to the position of Head of Business Development APAC. Bran-Morales joined the company as Sales Director EMEA, a position she had held for more than four years. Prior to her promotion, Bran-Morales served as the EMEA Sales and Business Development Executive.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Bran-Morales also serves at Brad Institute in multiple different roles: Brand Development Manager for Florida and Latin America, Brand Development Manager for Texas, and Sales Executive for New York. Additionally, she was an Account Manager at Construction Systems of America and a Financial Management Intern at the City of Oakland.

About smartTrade Technologies

smartTrade Technologies provides private SaaS end-to-end solutions along with hosted services for FX, fixed income, crypto, and derivatives. Besides this, the firm offers liquidity solutions for risk management, order management, payments , and multi-channel distributions.

In August, the UK division of smartTrade Technologies released its fiscal year 2024 results, highlighting strong profitability. The firm’s operating profits reached £2.2 million, doubling that of the previous year.

The company attributed the positive performance to increased activity and sales in Europe and the UK. Sales were almost £18 million, a 16% increase from £15.5 million. With sales costs remaining steady at under £14 million, this translated into an increase in the company's gross and operating profit.