Fazzaco Weekly Digest: Angel Ng's Promotion; Neon Appoints New Design Chief; Cboe Onboards Nigel Jeyakumar as Director of EMEA Sales

Take a look at the latest happenings in this week's news digest from around the forex and fintech industry. Here are some of the top headlines from this past week.

1. Citi Promotes Angel Ng as New Head of APAC Global Wealth Management

​Citi has appointed Angel Ng as head of Asia Pacific Global Wealth Management.

​In her new role, Ng will manage the bank's growth strategy across the region, centered around the wealth management hubs in Hong Kong and Singapore.  Ng currently serves as Citi CEO for Hong Kong and Macau and will continue to be based in Hong Kong. 

2. Digital Bank Neon Appoints Koji Pereira as Design Chief

Brazilian digital bank Neon has appointed Twitter and Google veteran Koji Pereira as chief design officer.

​Pereira, who grew up in Brazil, will be based in San Francisco, leading Neon's fintech product design.

3. Cboe Onboards Nigel Jeyakumar as Director of EMEA Sales

Fazzaco learned that Cboe Global Markets, a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, has appointed Nigel Jeyakumar as its Director of Sales for Data and Access Solutions. He has already taken up the new role in March.

In his new role, Nigel will focus on growing Cboe's stellar suite of market data, indices and analytics products and services across the EMEA region. He will be based in London and will report to Bo Chung, senior vice president in global sales and index licensing.

4. CrossTower Launches Perpetual Futures Trading on Its Bermuda Digital Exchange

CrossTower Inc., one of the world's fastest and leading crypto and digital asset exchanges, is pleased to announce the launch of perpetual futures trading, now available on CrossTower's Bermuda digital exchange.

​Available through the CrossTower Global Pro platform, perpetual futures trading is offered to qualified clients on an institutional grade and regulated platform. In the coming weeks, CrossTower intends to rollout perpetual futures trading in 20 top name tokens.

5. FX Dream Team Launches IB Central to Find Reputable IBs for Forex Brokers

FX Dream Team, a leading African FX marketing and media agency based in Johannesburg has launched IB Central its flagship project this month.

​ IB Central aims to professionalize and centralize IBs, Partner and Affiliates through business management training and industry education. The service will also avail an opportunity for brokers to play an active role in strengthening the FX industry by cleaning out toxic individuals and businesses that have given the industry a bad reputation. Responsible partner brokers will be encouraged to thoroughly vet their IBs and only onboard certified partners who have ethical business practices and add value to their clients. IB Central will serve forex brokers as the marketplace to find legitimate and reputable IBs, Partners and Affiliates.

6. SteelEye Launches New Market Replay Solution for Market Abuse Surveillance

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has recently announced the launch of its new Order Book Replay service – a cutting-edge market replay solution.

Designed to facilitate more precise and rigorous market abuse surveillance, SteelEye's market replay tool enables organizations to playback a trading session and more thoroughly analyze market movements.

7. A Glimpse of ActivTrades' Board of Directors amid Change of Chairman​

The FCA regulated forex and CFDs broker ActivTrades is seeing the departure of John Reed as the company's Chairman and member of board of directors. 

Patrick Storey, an Independent Non-Executive Director at ActivTrades, is succeeding Reed as the new Chairman, and Mr. Reed will chair another business entity with ties to Alex Pusco, CEO and founder of ActivTrades.

​In addition to CEO Alex and the new Chairman Patrick, the members of ActivTrades' board of directors now also include Andrea Draghi and Alessandro Gho.