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EXANTE

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Finance • B2B

EXANTE is a global prime broker and fintech firm founded in 2011 that provides direct access to over 2 million financial instruments across 50+ markets through a proprietary, customizable trading platform (desktop, web, mobile) with API and white-label options. It serves institutional and professional clients — banks, brokerages, asset managers, family offices, and professional traders — offering trade execution, custody arrangements, regulatory coverage, and dedicated relationship and post-trade support.

📋 Description

• Run and grow EXANTE’s options and derivatives business, with full P&L responsibility for both the principal derivatives trading book and client options trading. • Principal book — design and run the trading and hedging strategies for the options and derivatives trading book, including market making against internal client flow, risk management, and any directional or relative-value strategies the candidate proposes. • Product development — enhance the existing options offering and identify, design and launch new derivative products on the platform where commercially attractive (e.g. FX options, additional listed derivatives, more modern instruments). • Counterparty and liquidity — identify, negotiate and onboard the right exchanges, prime brokers, market makers and OTC counterparties for execution and hedging; own the relationships. • Platform enhancement — partner with Technology and Product to define and deliver the roadmap of platform improvements required to support the trading book and the product roadmap. • Client flow — work with Relationship Managers, Sales and Marketing to grow client options and derivatives flow into the book. • Team build-out — size, composition and sequencing at the hire’s discretion, consistent with the approved business plan. • Cross-functional cooperation — work closely with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Treasury and Technology to design the end-to-end workflow and risk framework. • Product governance — own the suitability framework and applicable conduct rules across the relevant booking entities.

🎯 Requirements

• 10–20 years’ experience in options or derivatives principal trading, market making or running a derivatives trading book at a sell-side firm, broker or proprietary trading house. • Multi-asset experience — across equity, index, FX and commodity asset classes, and across both listed and OTC markets. • Strong risk management background — delta, gamma, vega, correlation and exotic risks at scale. • Product launch track record — experience launching new derivative products is a strong plus. • Established network — a strong network of counterparty, exchange and liquidity-provider relationships. • Player-coach — willing to lead pricing and trading decisions personally before scaling the team. • Regulatory knowledge — working knowledge of MiFID II product governance, suitability rules, and equivalent regimes in the UK and Asia. • Fluent English — mandatory. • Commercial and direct — comfortable with full accountability for a P&L.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary that reflects your experience and the value you bring. • Flexibility that fits your life — work from home, from our office, or a mix of both. You decide what works best. • Flexible benefits package — choose the options that suit your life, not a one-size-fits-all bundle. • A genuinely good place to work — an informal, collaborative culture where ideas are heard and bureaucracy stays out of your way. • Continuous learning — ongoing training, education programs, and the support to deepen your expertise in a fast-moving industry. • Connection beyond your desk — events that bring our teams together to network and celebrate. • Global exposure — work side by side with talented colleagues from all over the world, across a business serving clients in 100+ countries.