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Exclusive: Longtime Libertex sales head Igor Galkin moves to Scope Markets

Gerald Segal 0 Comments March 19, 2021

FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that Igor Galkin has left Retail FX broker Libertex, to join rival Scope Markets.

Igor Galkin joined Libertex back in 2011 after spending five years at GAIN Capital / Forex.com, and has served since over the past 10 years as Libertex’s Head of Sales and Business Development. At Scope Markets he will be Head of Sales and also Head of Product.

While registered and licensed in Belize, Scope Markets is managed mainly from Europe, with CEO Jacob Plattner based in Cyprus alongside some of the company’s key other managers, including the group’s compliance officer. Chief Commercial Officer Daniel Lawrance is based in London.

Gerald Segal

Gerald is the founder of FNG and is one of the most experienced writers covering the online trading sector. Prior to starting FNG, Gerald founded Forex industry B2B news website LeapRate.com in 2010, selling it in 2018 to publicly traded Catena Media plc (STO:CTM). An avid skier, cyclist and ice hockey player, Gerald was previously an investment banker for more than a decade at Bear Stearns, Robertson Stephens, and Merrill Lynch. Gerald holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York and a BCOM degree from the University of Toronto.