Exclusive: Edgewater Markets hires EBS exec James Oliver for Precious Metals Sales
FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that FX industry technology provider Edgewater Markets has hired James Oliver as Director of Precious Metals Sales, based out of its London office.
Founded in 2009, New York based Edgewater Markets has been a provider of foreign exchange services to over 350 global institutional clients, providing complete software solutions for banks, asset managers, brokers, and other financial institutions to competitively and efficiently access and price into global markets. Edgewater’s global footprint and strategic partnership arrangements provides access into unique pools of deliverable FX and Metals liquidity and non-deliverable local liquidity.
James Oliver brings a wealth of industry experience in OTC and derivative based metals sales, and trading, spanning over 20 years. He spent the past 5+ years at EBS, as the company’s precious metals specialist. He had previously worked at CME Group (which acquired EBS in 2018 via its NEX Markets acquisition), the New York Mercantile Exchange, and at BlackRock.
In August 2020, Edgewater Markets announced a significant year on year metals volume surge. Mr. Oliver will be focusing on the continued expansion and distribution of Edgewater’s bullion transactions and partnerships across its suite of electronic pricing technologies, operating out of LD4, NY4, TY3 and AWS.
Emanuel Georgouras, Edgewater’s Head of Europe said of Mr. Oliver’s hiring:
‘’James is a long-standing member of the London precious metals and commodity marketplace. With his contacts, and depth of knowledge, both in the spot and derivative side of electronic metals trading, he will bring great new opportunities to Edgewater’s current bullion business lines and partnerships. I am delighted he is joining our global team.”
James Oliver said of joining Edgewater:
“I am excited to be joining the Edgewater Markets team. Their proven track record in global metals trading and proprietary technology solutions provides the ideal platform for the metals community, and I look forward to further growing their already successful business.”
Edgewater Markets is a global leader in technology driven multi asset electronic trading solutions to the institutional market. The company provides complete software solutions for banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions that optimize their trading, and competitively and efficiently access the global markets. Its suite of trading platforms, including EdgeFX.Pro and EdgeFXLatam, combine local market expertise with connectivity to the deepest and most diverse liquidity providers globally. Edgewater provides consistently competitive pricing for Spot, Swaps, Forwards, NDFs, Metals, and Digital Assets, and can be accessed over multiple channels (UI, API, WL, and third-party platforms).