BGC Partners Parts Ways with Head of Electronic FX Liam Hudson
- Liam had been based out of the company’s London office for the last year and a half.
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a global brokerage company specializing in financial and real estate markets, has parted ways with Liam Hudson, the Global Head of Electronic FX of its FENICS Market Data, FXweek reported.
Hudson had been based out of the company’s London office for the last year and a half, leading the broker’s e-commerce division, comprising technology and e-trading products and services. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial industry and originally joined the American global financial services company back in August 2018. He came from Bank of America, where he was Managing Director and Global Head of FX eCommerce for almost eight years.
Liam Hudson
Source: LinkedIn
Prior to joining BoA, Hudson was Director of FX Algorithmic Execution at Barclays Capital for one and a half years. Hudson joined Barclays from Lehman, where he spent seven years in the e-FX business, including helping develop the FXLive platform as well as the firm’s algo execution capabilities.
A stint at Lehman Brothers
BGC’s FENICS solutions support all aspects of foreign exchange (FX) option activity from pricing, automated price distribution, trading, Risk Management Risk Management One of the most common terms utilized by brokers, risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance. Most commonly, this also involves the analysis of risk and the undertaking of precautionary steps to both mitigate and prevent for such risk.Such efforts are essential for brokers and venues in the finance industry, given the potential for fallout in the face of unforeseen events or crises. Given a more tightly regulated environment across nearly every asset class, One of the most common terms utilized by brokers, risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance. Most commonly, this also involves the analysis of risk and the undertaking of precautionary steps to both mitigate and prevent for such risk.Such efforts are essential for brokers and venues in the finance industry, given the potential for fallout in the face of unforeseen events or crises. Given a more tightly regulated environment across nearly every asset class, Read this Term, and post-trade processing (STP, trade reporting, etc.).
According to his LinkedIn profile, Hudson’s first broke into the financial markets was in 2001 when he worked at Lehman Brothers as senior vice president of its FX eTrading, joining the team responsible for its FXLIVE Foreign Exchange Trading Platform Trading Platform In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real Read this Term. He worked for the firm up until 2008 when the company went bankrupt. Before this, it was a primary dealer in the US Treasury securities market.
Between 1990 until 1996, Hudson attended the Imperial College London, the only university in the United Kingdom to exclusively focus on science, medicine, engineering, and business. In 1993 he graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) majoring in Physics with Honours. He then went on to study his Ph.D. in Physics, which he achieved in 1996.
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a global brokerage company specializing in financial and real estate markets, has parted ways with Liam Hudson, the Global Head of Electronic FX of its FENICS Market Data, FXweek reported.
Hudson had been based out of the company’s London office for the last year and a half, leading the broker’s e-commerce division, comprising technology and e-trading products and services. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial industry and originally joined the American global financial services company back in August 2018. He came from Bank of America, where he was Managing Director and Global Head of FX eCommerce for almost eight years.
Liam Hudson
Source: LinkedIn
Prior to joining BoA, Hudson was Director of FX Algorithmic Execution at Barclays Capital for one and a half years. Hudson joined Barclays from Lehman, where he spent seven years in the e-FX business, including helping develop the FXLive platform as well as the firm’s algo execution capabilities.
A stint at Lehman Brothers
BGC’s FENICS solutions support all aspects of foreign exchange (FX) option activity from pricing, automated price distribution, trading, Risk Management Risk Management One of the most common terms utilized by brokers, risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance. Most commonly, this also involves the analysis of risk and the undertaking of precautionary steps to both mitigate and prevent for such risk.Such efforts are essential for brokers and venues in the finance industry, given the potential for fallout in the face of unforeseen events or crises. Given a more tightly regulated environment across nearly every asset class, One of the most common terms utilized by brokers, risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance. Most commonly, this also involves the analysis of risk and the undertaking of precautionary steps to both mitigate and prevent for such risk.Such efforts are essential for brokers and venues in the finance industry, given the potential for fallout in the face of unforeseen events or crises. Given a more tightly regulated environment across nearly every asset class, Read this Term, and post-trade processing (STP, trade reporting, etc.).
According to his LinkedIn profile, Hudson’s first broke into the financial markets was in 2001 when he worked at Lehman Brothers as senior vice president of its FX eTrading, joining the team responsible for its FXLIVE Foreign Exchange Trading Platform Trading Platform In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real Read this Term. He worked for the firm up until 2008 when the company went bankrupt. Before this, it was a primary dealer in the US Treasury securities market.
Between 1990 until 1996, Hudson attended the Imperial College London, the only university in the United Kingdom to exclusively focus on science, medicine, engineering, and business. In 1993 he graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) majoring in Physics with Honours. He then went on to study his Ph.D. in Physics, which he achieved in 1996.