WH Selfinvest Hires FXFlat’s Raphaël Leblond as French Regional Manager

Thursday, 16/02/2023 | 14:59 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo

Leblond brings over a decade of experience to the role.

The senior executive led German broker FXFlat's expansion into France.

WH Selfinvest Hires FXFlat’s Raphaël Leblond as French Regional Manager — Raphaël Leblond, FXFlat's former Head of France, now leads WH Selfinvest's French-speaking markets.

WH Selfinvest, a Luxemburg-based forex and CFDs broker, has appointed Raphaël Leblond, the former Head of France at the German brokerage firm, FXFlat Bank AG, to oversee the operations of its French-speaking markets from Paris, France. These markets include France, Belgium and Switzerland.

WH Selfinvest announced Leblond’s appointment on Thursday in a press statement shared with Finance Magnates. Leblond joins WH Selfinvest from FXFlat where he led the latter’s expansion into France for a year and four months, starting in October 2021. He brings over a decade of industry experience to the new role at WH Selfinvest.

Before FXFlat, he served for over nine years at the leading broker FXCM between August 2012 and February 2017. At the brokerage firm’s Paris office, he rose through the ranks to become the Head of Sales Trading in February 2017. He held the position until September 2021.

WH Selfinvest Seeks to Be 'On the French Map'

WH Selfinvest is a longtime player in the forex industry as the brokerage firm and portfolio manager was founded over two decades ago by Pascal Hirtz. The company runs its operations from six offices in Europe and is regulated by Luxembourg’s Financial Sector Supervisory Commission (CSSF). In France, WH Selfinvest is supervised by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR).

WH Selfinvest operates the popular NanoTrader trading platform . It is also behind investui, a platform for investment in gold, currencies and market indices, as well as Freestoxx, a provider of commission-free US stock trading services. Freestoxx, delivered to WH Selfinvest in May last year, was designed by Devexperts as a white-label version of its multi-asset trading platform, DXtrade.

In the statement released on Thursday, WH Selfinvest expressed confidence in Leblon’s ability to help put these platforms “on the French map.”

“Raphael has the skills and experience to further develop the WH Selfinvest brand in France, and other French-speaking countries,” Hirtz said in the statement.

Also speaking in the statement, Leblond noted that he was looking forward to building on the broker’s “strong brand name” as well as contributing to the further development of the platforms.

WH Selfinvest Seeks to Be 'On the French Map'

In the statement released on Thursday, WH Selfinvest expressed confidence in Leblon’s ability to help put these platforms “on the French map.”

“Raphael has the skills and experience to further develop the WH Selfinvest brand in France, and other French-speaking countries,” Hirtz said in the statement.

Also speaking in the statement, Leblond noted that he was looking forward to building on the broker’s “strong brand name” as well as contributing to the further development of the platforms.