Saxo Bank Appoints Global Head of Equity Products

Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) -

Advances its 'one platform' strategy by further bolstering
cross-asset capabilities

Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment
specialist, today announces the appointment of Alessandro Bressan, as
Global Head of Equity Products. The appointment marks a further step
in the implementation of Saxo Bank's 'one bank, one platform'
strategy aimed at building product coverage across all main asset
classes to meet the needs of both sophisticated individual investors
and its growing institutional client base.

Alessandro will be based in London where he will also assume
responsibility for UK sales covering European clients as well,
reporting to Dennis Malamatinas, Global Head of Regions and Global
Marketing. He joins Saxo Bank with more than 15 years' experience in
equity sales and trading, most recently at Deutsche Bank where he was
Global Head of dbIntegrate Sales, a front to back office solution for
equity execution, settlement and custody. Prior to Deutsche Bank,
Alessandro spent almost eight years at Morgan Stanley where he worked
on the equities electronic trading desk, covering clients trading
equities, futures and options, as well as swaps. Latterly, he also
held a cross-divisional role in prime brokerage sales and electronic
trading, leveraging the synergies of the two businesses to provide an
integrated service to hedge funds.

Saxo Bank, which has offices in 25 countries, including major
financial centres around the world, already provides access to
trading opportunities across multiple asset classes, including cash
equities and equity derivatives. Alessandro's appointment follows
that of Peter Plester, who joined Saxo Bank in April from Rabobank as
Head of FX Prime Broker Services.

Commenting on the appointment, Matteo Cassina, Head of Business
Lines, Saxo Bank said:

"With liquidity increasingly fragmented, and the number and
variety of market participants on the increase, our sophisticated
global and multi-asset trading platform is uniquely placed to
aggregate these liquidity pools together for the benefit of
individual and institutional clients looking to consolidate their
trading with a single platform. By doing so, clients not only benefit
from cross asset margining, competitive pricing and deep liquidity,
but they are also better placed to trade in any economic cycle.

"At the same time, Alessandro's addition to the team and our
strategy to enhancing our asset class and product excellence presents
opportunities for us to further extend and grow our white label
solutions which are currently used by over 100 financial institutions
worldwide."

Adding to this, Alessandro said, "There are significant
opportunities with small and medium sized hedge funds that in the
last few years, due to both resource constraints and high
on-boarding/maintenance costs are no longer being served by the
largest Prime Brokers. Smaller managers often achieve better
performance than their larger peers, but they struggle to find
providers who can support them across multiple asset classes with a
single margin. This presents an opportunity for Saxo Bank which
further provides these clients with the added assurance of being a
regulated entity holding bank licenses in a number of jurisdictions.

"We are also planning to fill an important gap for those
institutional clients who are looking to outsource their trading
infrastructure and post trade services to enable them to focus
exclusively on their core businesses."

About Saxo Bank

Saxo Bank is an online multi-asset trading [http://www.saxobank.c
om/forex?csref=b1744_Link_boilerplate_pressrelease ] and investment
specialist, offering private investors and institutional clients a
complete set of tools for their trading and investment strategies.
Its financial community portal, TradingFloor.com
[https://www.tradingfloor.com ], is the first multi-asset social
trading platform. A fully licensed and regulated European bank, Saxo
Bank enables clients to trade FX, CFDs, ETFs, Stocks, Futures,
Options and other derivatives on our award-winning SaxoTrader
platform, accessible on PC
[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-platforms/saxotrader ]s, tablet
[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-platforms/saxowebtrader ]s or
smartphone
[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-platforms/saxotrader-apps ]s through
a single account and available in more than 20 languages. The
platform is white-labelled by more than 100 major financial
institutions worldwide. Saxo Bank also offers professional portfolio
and fund management as well as traditional banking services through
Saxo Privatbank. Founded in 1992, Saxo Bank is headquartered in
Copenhagen and has offices in 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia,
the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Australia.

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Contact:
Media enquiries: Kasper Elbjørn, Head of International
Communications, +45-3065-4300, press@saxobank.com