CFI Financial Group has appointed veteran FX technologist Michael O’Sullivan as Senior Technology Advisor, adding depth to its technology leadership as it refines how it runs a multi-region trading infrastructure. The Dubai-headquartered broker brings in O’Sullivan after a string of senior roles across the retail FX and CFDs sector.

O’Sullivan joins the firm in a newly created advisory position that reports into the chief executive and executive leadership team. In this role, he supports efforts to strengthen technology operations across the different regions where the group offers its trading services.

New Senior Role at CFI

​Based in London, O’Sullivan brings around 20 years of experience in technology roles within the retail FX and CFDs industry. He joined CFI in October, according to his professional profile, after serving as Chief Technology Officer at Hantec Markets, where he also oversaw technology for the group’s retail proprietary trading arm Hantec Trader.

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O’Sullivan also worked as the CTO at INFINOX from early 2021 and helped deliver that firm’s multi-asset Multi-Asset Composed of varying asset classes, multi-asset is a blanket designation combining different classes such bonds, equities, cash equivalents, fixed income, and alternative investments.When compared to traditional balanced funds, multi-asset solutions differ because they target specific investment outcomes. This includes outcomes such as return above inflation as opposed to gauging performance against standardized benchmarks.Given the composition of multi-asset classes, they need to be dynamically Composed of varying asset classes, multi-asset is a blanket designation combining different classes such bonds, equities, cash equivalents, fixed income, and alternative investments.When compared to traditional balanced funds, multi-asset solutions differ because they target specific investment outcomes. This includes outcomes such as return above inflation as opposed to gauging performance against standardized benchmarks.Given the composition of multi-asset classes, they need to be dynamically Read this Term trading platform, following earlier stints at ATFX and CMC Markets. At ATFX UK, he was the Head of Project Management, while at CMC Markets he dedicated 15 years to Head of Partnerships role.

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Regional Outreach Alongside Tech Upgrades

Last July, Hantec Markets reshuffled three senior management roles with one internal promotion and two external appointments, promoting Norayr Djerrahian to Chief Commercial Officer while hiring Tim Hughes as Chief Strategy Officer and Vivek Mehta as Chief Technology Officer, with Hughes and Mehta joining in early July and Hughes replacing Djerrahian in the CSO role.

And towards the end of last year, CFI Financial Group promoted Charbel Saleh to Global Head of Business Operations, after he served as Business Development Project Partner since last year.

The group also opened its Bahrain office around the same time and appointed Yaseen Alsamerrai to lead the operation, adding another location to the online broker’s Middle East network.