The leading non-bank liquidity providing venue in the foreign exchange industry, XTX Markets has continued its focus on expanding the company’s footprint across Asia. The firm on-boarded Ted Yang to its Asian business development team which is based in Singapore.

Yang joins after serving as Head of Technical Implementation Management in the APAC region at Tower Research. His tenure at the firm lasted a bit over a year with a much longer career at Samsung futures in Korea.

Join the iFX EXPO Asia and discover your gateway to the Asian Markets

While working for the leading corporate conglomerate in the country he served as Head of the Electronic Trading Client Services team at Samsung Futures in Korea and spent eight years at the company.

Commenting on the new hire, the Head of Business Development at XTX Markets Andonis Sakatis said: “I am delighted to have Ted joins us as we continue to grow our business in Asia. He has a fantastic depth of knowledge around financial markets and we look forward to him developing our business further.”

XTX Markets has been polled as the top performing non-bank liquidity provider in terms of volumes according to a Euromoney poll released earlier this year in May. The company has been actively continuing to expand its offering and is on its way to become one of the key market players in the industry.