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Recent Announcements from Turquoise, LSE and BATs

A few days after Turquoise announced it has raised new funding from its existing backers to see it through to the end of 2009, the FT reports that the pan-European equities trading facility has announced incentives for traders using its platform in a further sign of the price war in European share trading.

The FT article states that Turquoise will attempt to attract more such traders, sometimes referred to as “electronic liquidity providers”, by raising the rebates it will pay them for posting bids on the Turquoise order book. Click here for the firm's press release.

Last week a Reuters' report said the London Stock Exchange forecast a difficult 2009. The article said that analysts remain cautious on the outlook of the exchange. One analyst citation predicts that MTFs have made in-roads into UK equities trading and they are likely to drive down pricing.

This morning BATS Europe announced a pan-European market share display available free via its public Web site. MarketWatch reports that BATSEurope is the first MTF to provide this data publicly and free of charge. The display provides near real-time notional value and volume summaries for BATS Europe, as well as other major European exchanges and MTFs.

Senior Sales Executive - Automated Trading Solutions - London

A leading global supplier of automated trading solutions seeks a Senior Sales Executive to join their London operation. 

This is a role which has a clear new business focus and candidates must be able to demonstrate a record of over achievement in selling to the European banking and/or hedge fund community. We will consider candidates with experience in a variety of asset classes, although we are particularly interested in FX and Fixed Income.

Remuneration is performance related and highly competitive.

For an initial discussion please contact Paul Chambers.

Equity Markets Reporter - Italian Stocks - based London

Our client is looking for a reporter to write topical pieces around intra-day Italian equity markets. These reports include stocks to watch throughout the day, major stock market moves, market moving insights into other economic factors that are affecting Italian stock markets as well as brokers views and target prices on individual market stocks.

You will have a journalism qualification as well as fluent Italian. Although you will write your reports in English, your market contacts will be Italian and will share market intelligence with you in Italian. You will have a broad understanding of financial markets.

This role will suit someone with very good networking skills and someone who can dig deep and break stories. You will enjoy working under pressure. You will be enthusiastic and innovative. Ideally you will have had some experience of business reporting.

To apply, please contact Aine Hall. (Please submit written samples with application).

New Business Sales - Trade Reporting Solutions - based London

Our client is a small business division of a large corporation.

We seek a New Business Sales Executive to create new revenues across a range of products. Their solutions allow firms to show transparency around trade reporting. This is in line with regulatory requirements.

We seek a Sales Executive with sound knowledge of middle- and back-office business processes. You will have over-achieved against sales targets in previous data vendor sales role(s) and you will have a good network of contacts across buy-side and sell-side firms. You will also show a good general knowledge of financial markets and market regulations.

For a confidential discussion about this role, please contact Aine Hall.

Business Development Manager - Hosting/Connectivity - based London

Our client is a large multi-national firm with a business division that sells hosting and connectivity solutions to buy-side and sell-side firms across the globe.

We seek a Business Development Manager to sell managed financial extranet services to banks, brokers, buy-side firms, exchanges, internet service vendors and market data firms. The territory is Northern Europe and includes sales to Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe. This territory has existing customers in this region but we are looking for strong new business sales skills to grow the business predominantly from sales to new clients. The role is London based.

We are interested in meeting individuals with knowledge of financial markets, market data, electronic trading and European data telecommunications.

You will have a good network of contacts in this space as well as a track record of successfully building new business.

To discuss this role, kindly contact Aine Hall.

New Address for The Freshman Consultancy

Today, The Freshman Consultancy Ltd. is moving offices and we have a new address and new contact numbers.

Our new address is 1 Luke Street, London EC2A 4PX.

Click here for more information about The Freshman Consultancy Ltd. and to view the new direct line telephone numbers for Paul Chambers and Aine Hall.