FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that London based Retail FX and CFDs broker Capital.com has added experienced Finance and Compliance executive Philip Anderson to the Board of Directors of its FCA licensed arm Capital Com (UK) Limited. He will join as a Non-Executive Director.

Philip Anderson has over 20 years of experience of working in senior finance, risk and compliance positions in retail financial services. He worked most recently as Finance Director and Head of Compliance at specialist institutional stockbroking company Cenkos Securities plc. Philip is a Chartered Accountant and worked for Price Waterhouse in London prior to a number of finance roles in Commercial Union (now Aviva) and Legal & General. In 1999, he moved to Virgin Direct and was part of the team that initiated the transformation to the Virgin Money of today.

He has also held the positions of Finance Director at Towry Law plc (a subsidiary of Henderson Group plc) and Bluefin (a subsidiary of Axa), where he was also responsible for Compliance, Risk and operations. Prior to joining Cenkos, Philip was Finance and Compliance Director for Curo Transatlantic Limited where he played a key part in transforming the finance team, financial reporting and obtaining regulatory licences.

Capital.com operates several licensed subsidiaries in the UK, Australia, and Cyprus. The company, and its sister brand Currency.com are controlled by British tech entrepreneur Victor Prokopenya. Last year the company brought on board as CEO former IG Group CEO Peter Hetherington.