Company Overview
Tradeteq was founded in 2016 by bank, commodity trading, and asset management veterans. As soon as they started looking for ways to invest in trade finance, they realized that technology is crucial to good investments. Tradeteq is made to satisfy originators and institutional investors and is designed by an innovative, diverse team with new trade finance ideas. No spreadsheets, manual data aggregation, or error-prone processes. Instead, they use award-winning technology and know what institutional investors want in trade finance. Trade finance investors and originators benefit from the breakthrough technology today.
Key Executives
Managers Tradeteq’s leadership team blends cultural and professional backgrounds. Their leaders have extensive business, technology, and finance experience to support Tradeteq’s growth.
CFO NILS BEHLING
CFO Nils started Tradeteq. Being a director in Merrill Lynch’s FICC, he created capital markets and complex funding solutions for real-money clients and banks. Before entering fintech, Nils invested in trade finance and managed Trafigura’s Galena Asset Management portfolio.
CEO Chris Gugelmann
Christoph founded Tradeteq. He managed Trafigura-owned Geneva’s Galena Asset Management portfolio. He previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
CTO SIMON NEEDHAM
Simon has developed financial institution software for more than 20 years. Simon worked as a software consultant for financial services companies like Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch before joining TradeTeq.
AZADEH ARABIAN: HEAD OF PEOPLE & BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE
Tradeteq appointed Azadeh as Arabian Operations Manager in 2018. Azadeh oversees London and Singapore operations and HR at Tradeteq.
General Counsel Patricia Alexander
Tradeteq’s leadership team includes Patricia, who helps run and grow the company. She has worked in business and corporate law in London and Melbourne, Australia, for over ten years.
AI HEAD MICHAEL BOGUSLAVSKY
Michael leads the Artificial Intelligence team and develops a machine learning trade finance credit analytics team. He was a quantitative analyst for 20 years in finance.
Lenna Russ, CRO
Lenna is a 15-year enterprise software leader. As CRO, Lenna oversees Tradeteq’s revenue-generating operations, including customer lifecycle, partner management, and channel activities.
Asia head: MATTIA TOMBA
Tradeteq’s Asia head is Mattia. He previously managed an equity portfolio and worked on global private equity and real estate deals for Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (Qatari Diar).
Products & Services
Connect- FI-risk and core trade distribution is best with Tradeteq Connect. Tradeteq Connect covers all funded and unfunded trade finance products, including letters of credit, guarantees, trade loans, supply chain finance, and receivables. Tradeteq Connect provides a simple dashboard for all distribution activities.
- Network service
- Trade study
- Tracked talks
- Document automation
- Reporting automation
- Transaction management
- Management
Access- Tradeteq Access provides investment managers with ready-to-use, compliant, safe, and scalable infrastructure. Tradeteq Access can connect to risk, limit, and other asset management systems without problems. Alerts and reminders help track assets, trades, and lifecycle stages like extensions, credit events, and repayments.
- Network Service
- Securities service
- Trading automation
- Customize reports in mark-to-market, net asset value, ageing, and position reporting
Distribute- Tradeteq Distribute standardized trade asset origination and distribution. It connects users to banks, non-bank originators, and credit insurers in a secure private network. Tradeteq Distribute is compatible with existing risk, limit, and asset management systems.
- Network Service
- Securities service
- Customize reports in mark-to-market, net asset value, ageing, and position reporting
- Trading automation
Company Reviews
- 2021 GoGlobal Awards: The International Trade Council honours creative, bold businesses with the Go Global Awards. Tradeteq won in Trade Finance.
- 2021 FSTECH Awards: Tradeteq won “Best Use of IT Trading Platforms” at the 21st FStech Awards.
- GLOBAL FINANCE: 2021 TRADE FINANCE AWARDS: Tradeteq won the Best Trade Finance Provider – Non-Bank category in Global Finance’s 21st annual World’s Best Trade Finance Providers awards for the second year. Tradeteq won the Best Trade Finance Provider—Non-Bank category in Global Finance’s 20th annual World’s Best Trade Finance Providers awards.
- 2021 Risk Markets Technology Awards: Tradeteq won the best use of machine learning/AI award from 12 industry experts and Risk.net’s editorial staff.
- UK FINTECH Awards 2020 “INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR”: The awards celebrated the UK fintech industry and its brightest minds.
- Fund 2020 Intelligence, Technology, and WSL Awards: A prestigious awards ceremony named Tradeteq Best New Fintech Solution.
- 2019 American Financial Technology Awards: Tradeteq won the Best Collaboration Initiative category at the American Financial Technology Awards.
Related News
Tradeteq issues trade finance-backed XDC blockchain tokens.
Tradeteq, a trade finance asset distribution technology company, launched the first fully regulated fungible security token backed by trade finance on the XDC blockchain network. Trade finance is a low-risk asset class. It’s hard to see what’s going on, there needs to be more collateral, and the supply chain processes are complicated, so few investors have invested.
Tradeteq’s new security token solves these issues by tokenizing pools of securitized finance assets on the Network of XDC and making them available to retail investors with as little as CHF100 (US$104).
Tradeteq allows buy-side investors to trade finance assets.
Tradeteq, a trade finance asset distribution technology company, launched the first marketplace for buy-side investors to trade finance assets. Tradeteq launched in 2018 with a cloud-based platform that lets originators package trade finance products into standard investments that can be bought and sold through private distribution networks and settled like other fixed-income products.
The company wants to give investment managers access to deal flows from a specific bank and non-bank originators with Tradeteq Access Lite. Investors can complete trading on the platform. They can match deal criteria and negotiate terms with instant alerts.
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