Eduard Poltavsky Leaves Refinitiv to Join IS Prime as Sales Director

IS Prime, a prime brokerage and execution venue, announced that it has appointed Eduard Poltavsky former Performance Director at Refinitiv as Sale Director.

In his new role, he will focus predominantly on sales of IS Prime’s Agency Execution service to banks, hedge funds and asset managers across the EMEA region.

Eduard Poltavsky brings abundant senior e-FX sales experience to the FCA regulated Prime of Prime brokerage, which is part of ISAM Capital Markets Group. In addition to working as Performance Director, FX Market Development, EMEA at Refinitiv, his career history includes Director of e-FX Sales at GTX, the institutional foreign exchange trading arm of GAIN Capital, which was sold to Deutsche Boerse’s FX unit, 360T. He also spent over three years as Director of FX Sales at BATS Hotspot. Eduard will report into Barry Flanigan, Head of Liquidity and Distribution at IS Prime.

Commenting on the appointment, Barry Flanigan said: “We are delighted that Eduard is joining the team, focusing primarily on sales of our agency execution product. Eduard brings invaluable insight and expertise to our team and a wealth of contacts within banks, distribution platforms and asset management firms. He will be a real asset to IS Prime.”

“I am really looking forward to my new role. This is a great opportunity for me to drive further growth for IS Prime’s Agency Execution business. IS Prime has an excellent track record in the industry and I believe they can add real value to institutional clients through the combination of their liquidity and Prime of Prime services”, Eduard Poltavsky added.

Not long before, Fazzaco has reported on IS Prime adding MT5 to its white label solutions​ in order to give further options to retail FX brokers.