Quantitative Brokers Adds Sales Executive to Continue APAC Growth Strategy
SYDNEY/NEW YORK, July 7th, 2021 – Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of advanced execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for global futures and options markets, today named James (Jimmy) Clarke as APAC Sales based in Sydney, Australia.
This is a new position and is effective immediately. Mr. Clarke reports to Tim Gits, QB Chief Sales Officer based in New York.
“QB is expanding significantly and strategically in the Asia-Pacific region through new hires, new partnerships, and technology development,” said Christian Hauff, QB Co-Founder and CEO. “Jimmy brings market knowledge, deep client relationships, and experience in cross-asset and cross-product execution. We welcome him to the QB team.”
Today’s news follows a cadence of developments for QB in the APAC region, including launching in May, a suite of award-winning execution algorithms on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad, part of publicly traded Bursa Malaysia Berhad. This marked the fourth APAC exchange application for QB.
In March, QB announced the launch of its first execution algo for the Osaka Exchange, the derivatives market of the Japan Exchange Group (JPX). In 2018, QB opened a regional office in Sydney and launched its services on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). In 2020, QB started supporting the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
About Jimmy Clarke
Prior to QB, Mr. Clarke served for more than four years as Institutional Sales Trader at ICAP. Prior to that he spent nine years in Singapore where he managed multiple futures sales desks at Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Newedge.
Mr. Clarke is a native of Sydney, Australia and attended the University of Newcastle. He started his career working for a market maker in the bond options pit of the Sydney Futures Exchange and soon became one of the first electronic traders on SFE's SYCOM platform. Mr. Clarke has been an avid user and driver of algorithmic trading across futures, cash treasuries and relative value. His career has followed the evolution of listed product trading from the pits to electronic, with greater focus on efficiency and transparency.
ABOUT QUANTITATIVE BROKERS
Quantitative Brokers (QB) is a global financial technology company, provides advanced algorithms and data-driven pre- and post-trade analytics to clients in the Futures, Options and interest rate markets. The company is built on a research-driven culture, market microstructure know-how, and algorithmic engineering expertise. QB continually develops and innovates an evolving suite of products to reduce and measure implicit trading costs for its clients. Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, QB has branch offices in London, Sydney, and Chennai.
In December 2020, Deutsche Börse completed the previously announced purchase of a majority position in QB.
QB's portfolio of algorithms, simulation tools and analytics are used by many of the world’s largest institutional investors. QB’s suite of algorithms — Bolt, Strobe, Legger, Closer, Octane, The Roll, and Striker — are uniquely engineered for both central limit order books and OTC liquidity streams while accessible via all major execution and order management systems used by the buy-side, banks, and brokerage houses.