SINGAPORE, 16 June 2016 – Marex Spectron, the global commodities broker, has appointed Matthew France as Head of Institutional Sales, Metals, in Asia.
France joins from Morgan Stanley where he was an Executive Director managing the firm’s Asian Metals business. Reporting into the Global Head of Metals, Simon Van Den Born, he will be based in Marex Spectron’s Singapore office.
Van Den Born said: “Matthew’s appointment further strengthens our presence in Asia. He has a deep knowledge of the Asian markets and will be instrumental in helping Marex Spectron access new opportunities in the region.”
France has two decades’ experience in the financial and metals markets. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he spent eight years at Barclays Capital as a metals trader, excelling in price-making and risk management. His appointment comes after the recent hire of Roi Leung in Hong Kong to spearhead Marex Spectron’s Japanese Metals market offering.
As Asia becomes an increasingly important centre of global commodity markets, Marex Spectron has been positioning itself at the forefront of this transition. The Group has been steadily deepening its metals presence and market share in the region, as well as continuing to build up its existing ferrous metals and energy capability in Singapore.
The firm has also made a significant investment in its global technology offering for metals clients. Specialist metals functionality has been integrated into Neon, Marex Spectron’s industry leading Direct Market Access (DMA) technology platform, a development that has increased its attractiveness to clearing clients.
Neon now has almost 300 users placing orders directly into the market, with a further 900 users and 240 separate clients directing their exchange traded electronic order flow via the firm using third party vendor-provided platforms.
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About Marex Spectron Group Limited:
Marex Spectron is a leading commodities brokerage headquartered in London but with an international network covering Asia and North America, with significant market shares in many major Agricultural, Metal and Energy products.
We offer electronic and voice broking services, with state of the art networks to facilitate complex trading strategies. We offer insight and know-how, based on decades of experience, a vast market data set and the latest analytic tools.
We have a broad range of clients including commodity producers and consumers, banks, hedge funds, asset managers, brokers, commodity trading advisors and professional traders.
We are members of the London Metal Exchange (LME; where we are a Ring Dealer), the CME Group exchanges, ICE Group exchanges and many others.
We are regulated in the UK by the FCA, in the US by the NFA and CFTC, in Hong Kong by the SFC, and in Singapore by the MAS.