GMO-Z.com Onboards EX-Hirose Financial Executive Toshiaki Tsuchiya

Z.com Trade, the UK trading arm of GMO CLICK Group, has appointed Toshiaki Tsuchiya to the post of General Manager, following a lengthy career of nearly six years with another London-based retail foreign exchange broker, Hirose Financial UK Ltd.

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The company’s core markets remain in the UK, but Z.com Trade has also focused on other European markets and China.

Mr. Tsuchiya’s previous stop was also with a subsidiary of a Japanese FX company, Hirose Financial, that provides online trading solution to forex traders.

In this new role, Toshiaki is responsible for managing the expansion of the business by ‎deploying best practices from the online trading world into development projects and ‎investment opportunities. His focus will be on shaping the firm’s relationships with industry ‎entities to accelerate trading business, as well as securing customers ‎to Z.com’s 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.‎

Mr. Tsuchiya was instrumental in building the compliance and sales functions of Hirose UK.‎ According to his LinkedIn profile, he implemented systems, policies, controls, and procedures to address money laundering and terrorist financing risks and meet the requirements of the regulations.

Toshiaki is also a ‎seasoned expert in risk and compliance, where he held senior roles during his tenure with Hirose UK. He ‎has also conducted numerous workshops and presentations on compliance ‎topics for companies and regulators worldwide.‎

Mr. Tsuchiya joins GMO-Z.com during a key period, with its parent company now poised to expand.

GMO-Z.com Coin, the cryptocurrency arm of the Japanese giant GMO Internet, has recently undergone a big rebrand a few months after it launched its bication platform earlier this year.

The rebranding changes the name from GMO-Z.com Coin to GMO Coin, Inc., and also the service identity from Z.com Coin by GMO to GMO Coin. It also includes a new logo, a move away from the blue background previously associated with the old offering, which was launched in May 2017 to facilitate the trading of virtual currency FX and virtual currency.