FXall, the world's leading electronic foreign exchange platform, announced today that Kevin Lupowitz has joined the company as Chief Information Officer.
Given FXall's strong institutional client franchise, Kevin was selected specifically for his holistic understanding of the buy-side's needs, as well as his expertise in applying technology to create opportunities within trading workflow management and vision to evolve marketplaces along with evolving market structures. He is responsible for leading FXall's comprehensive technology strategy with a focus on innovation and creating opportunities for growth, both organic and inorganic.
Kevin joins from Liquidnet, a platform for the buy-side to source liquidity anonymously, where he was the CIO and Global Head of Technology, and held a number of technology and application development executive roles since 2000. Kevin has extensive software design and development experience and familiarity with order management systems from his background at Merrin Financial, and Armonie Software where he was a co-founder, New Era of Networks, Inc., and Heine Securities (Mutual Series Fund).
Phil Weisberg, CEO at FXall, said: "We are excited to have Kevin join our team. He is an experienced technologist with a deep understanding of electronic markets and delivering services to the financial institutions. We are looking to Kevin to help us create a highly engaged and productive environment for our technology team to aggressively expand our capabilities in areas of interest to our clients. We believe this positions the company well to navigate the new derivatives legislation and market structure changes and develop innovative product and enterprise solutions for our clients and bank partners."
The technology organization comprises a majority of FXall's 180+ full-time global staff. This team supports end-to-end trading, settlement and workflow solutions that combine the ability for institutions to trade with their bank relationships or through an ultra low-latency anonymous ECN. In addition, FXall offers a full suite of technology outsourcing capabilities for banks banks and broker-dealers through its Enterprise Solutions business.
Kevin Lupowitz noted that "I look forward to joining FXall at this stage in its growth, as the company is uniquely situated to bring together key market participants and deliver comprehensive execution capabilities for the current markets. I am excited to help the company grow by building the right technology framework to deliver the best solutions for our clients."