Ludovic Blanquet appointed smartTrade Chief Product and Strategic Planning Officer

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 -- Pioneer of multi-asset electronic trading solutions, smartTrade Technologies announced that Ludovic Blanquet has joined as Chief Product and Strategic Planning Officer.

“Drawing on his business leadership experience, Ludovic will provide fresh insights to our product priorities as we help our clients and the wider industry to further modernise capital markets technology,” said smartTrade Chief Executive Officer, David Vincent.

Reporting to Vincent, Blanquet brings 20 years of industry experience to the role and will support smartTrade to deliver world-class integrated eTrading solutions which capitalise on its market leading eFX LiquidityFX cloud offering. According to a statement, Blanquet joins from Finastra where he was the Global Head of Product Strategy across its five lines of business. Prior to this, Blanquet built Credit Agricole APAC’s global equities trading platform and was APAC regional director for SmartStream.

Now based in London, Blanquet will lead a team of strategy and product managers responsible for designing and delivering on the future product roadmap in collaboration with smartTrade’s ecosystem of customers, partners and liquidity providers.   More details at www.smart-trade.net.

-- BERNAMA