Unique: FX gross sales veteran Kevin Gillespie leaves Menai for Nomura’s Laser Digital

FNG Unique… FNG has discovered that Kevin Gillespie, who has been working within the institutional FX business for about three a long time, has left crypto market maker Menai Monetary to affix Laser Digital. He will probably be chargeable for FX Distribution at Laser Digital.

As was additionally solely reported by FNG on the time, Kevin Gillespie “went crypto” becoming a member of Menai final yr in London to go up institutional gross sales. Nonetheless Menai, which relies in New York and is headed by former Morgan Stanley Co-President Zoe Cruz, has met up with some issues this yr and reportedly is shuttering its market-making enterprise in Tokyo and London.

Kevin Gillespie started his FX business profession within the late Nineteen Eighties as an FX dealer at TD Financial institution. He ultimately spent greater than 10 years at Hotspot FX, the place as VP FX Gross sales he helped see the corporate via its acquisition by BATS International Markets. From 2019-2022 he labored at FX ECN Spotex as Director of Institutional Gross sales.

Laser Digital is a Nomura Group firm, delivering scalable, sturdy alternatives throughout buying and selling, asset administration, and ventures in crypto.