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Nexa Technologies, Inc.

Nexa is software design company operating as a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide. The firm specializes in the creation of trading architecture designed for customized integration multiple trading activities. The firm draws experience form being a former brokerage.
== History ==
Nexa was founded in 1999 in Irvine, California launching the first retail multi-lingual trading application in 2000. In 2001, Nexa entered into a strategic and financial partnership with Penson Worldwide, resulting in numerous collective successes. Initially, they together launched customizable web-based trading solutions. 
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*Bruce Ferguson, President
*Robert Bishop, Senior Vice President
== References ==
Category:Penson Worldwide
Ng Kok Song

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Ng Kok Song is a Singapore-based financial services professional who was founding chairman of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX), now incorporated into the Singapore Exchange.
In 2009, Ng Kok Song was inducted into the Futures Industry Association's Futures Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 to commemorate outstanding contributions to the global futures and options community.
== Background ==
Ng Kok Song was a key member of the team that conceived and expanded the trading of gold futures to include financial futures at the Gold Exchange of Singapore. The Gold Exchange was renamed SIMEX, and Mr. Ng became its first Chairman from 1984 to 1987. SIMEX subsequently merged with the Stock Exchange of Singapore in 1999 to form SGX.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category:SIMEX - Former Employees
Nguyen Van Giau

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Nguyen Van Giau has been governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), the country's central bank, since August 2007 after an earlier 5-year stint as deputy governor from 1998 to 2003. He is currently overseeing a monetary policy at the SBV aimed at weakening the Vietnamese dong to boost domestic production and exports while reducing imports.
== Background ==
Prior to becoming SBV Governor on August 2, 2007, Giau had spent two years as Party Secretary of Ninh Thuan Province and the previous two years as the province's Deputy Party Secretary. Before his first stint at the SBV began in 1998, Giau had spent his professional career at the state-owned Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, better-known as Agribank, which he joined in 1988. He was also the general director of Agribank for two years prior to joining the SBV as deputy governor.
In an online interview published in August 2008, his first anniversary as SBV governor, Giau reaffirmed the Vietnamese government's commitment to modernizing the SBV "in accordance with the standards of other regional central banks" over the next decade. The SBV would also continue to "flexibly manage the exchange rate policy", he added.
== Latest News ==
Giau recently presided over an SBV move to widen the dong's trading ban with the U.S. dollar, which subsequently further weakened Vietnam's currency in line with SBV's policy. Giau said the move would help improve domestic production an exports while lowering imports, adding that Vietnam's balance of payments would not be threatened because of the country's trade surplus.
== References ==
Nicaragua Stock Exchange

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The Nicaragua Stock Exchange (NSE) is know locally as the Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua (BVDN) and was launched during free-market financial reforms in the early 1990s and, despite its name, mostly trades bonds of varying maturities, especially short-term and medium term. Like Nicaragua itself (population 5.6 million) the NSE is still relatively small and in 2009 the exchange reported total volume of around $550 million 
== Background ==
The NSE was launched on January 31, 1994 as a collaboration between Nicaragua's largest banks, coffee and sugar manufacturers, and the country's Ministry of Finance. Although the NSE allows listing and trading of companies, thus far mostly bonds issued by the country's main financial institutions have been traded on the exchange (although see Latest news below). Fixed-income maturities on the NSE range from seven days to 3+ years.
The NSE currently faces no restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) and no taxes are levied on income or capital gains from traded securities on the NSE. The exchange also lists all its fixed income securities in U.S. dollars as well as Nicaraguan cordobas.
== Key people ==
Raul Lacayo has been president of the Nicaragua Stock Exchange since 2006.
== Latest news ==
In mid-August 2009, Canadian renewable-energy company Polaris Geothermal became the first foreign company to offer its shares for public trading in Nicaragua when the company listed its class A common shares on the Nicaragua Stock Exchange. Polaris Geothermal is now an internationally joint-listed company with shares also listed on its home market, the Toronto Stock Exchange. 
== References ==
Category:Exchanges
Category:Stock Exchanges
Category:South American Exchanges
Nicholas Cotts

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Nicholas Cotts is the group executive for environment and social responsibility at Newmont Mining Corporation. He was appointed to this position in March 2011.
== Background ==
Cotts was the regional vice president and director of environment and social responsibility for Newmont Ghana from 2006 to 2011. Before that, he served as Newmont's director of environmental and sustainable development.
== Education ==
*Colorado State University (1990)
== Five Minutes Interview ==
*April 2012
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Nicholas Dunbar

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Nicholas Dunbar is a London-based financial journalist and author and the founder of Risky Finance, a risk data and analysis platform. He was previously a newsletter editor for Bloomberg, editing Bloomberg Risk newsletter. He joined Bloomberg in 2011.
He is the author of "The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street...And Are Ready to Do It Again" from Harvard Business Review Press.
In 2000, he published his first book, "Inventing Money, the story of Long-Term Capital Management and the legend behind it."
== Background ==
Dunbar trained as a physicist at Cambridge and Harvard University, but became a financial journalist after being inspired by some university friends who moved from academia to the trading floors of investment banks.
He was the founder of Life & Pensions, a sister publication to Risk magazine which was aimed at the insurance and pensions industry. He sold Life & Pensions to Incisive Media in 2009.
In 2003 he broke the story of Greece hiding debt using swaps with Goldman Sachs. In 2007 He won the State Street award for institutional financial journalism. 
He wrote a column called ‘Risky Finance’ for the financial commentary service Reuters Breakingviews from 2001 to 2010.
== Education ==
Dunbard holds a A.M in Earth & Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. He also studied applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Bloomberg - Former Employees
Category:Bloomberg
Category:Authors
Nicholas Garrow

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Nick Garrow is a capital markets veteran who was appointed to the newly created role of executive vice president multi-asset and buy-side at Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) in April 2022. He reports to Keith Todd, the chief executive of TT.
Garrow has more than 20 years’ experience in senior management in capital markets and prime brokerage. He led the global technological and operational transformation of businesses ranging from a tier-1 bank to brokerage and clearing firms, to an exchange and fintech company.
Earlier, he was global head of eSolutions for Newedge, a division of Societe Generale. 
== Background ==
Before joining Newedge, he served as European head of electronic trading sales in London for Calyon Financial, the precursor firm that eventually merged with FIMAT to become Newedge. In 2009, he was promoted to global head of electronic trading technology for Newedge. In that role, he led an overhaul and upgrade of the firm’s electronic trading platforms, working from Chicago and London.
In 2014, after the acquisition of Newedge by SG, Garrow was promoted to global head of cross-asset technology in London for SG Prime Services. He took over all of the pre-trade and post-trade technology for the Prime Services business in 2017, leading a team of more than 300 people.
From 1999 to 2005, he served as global head of sales for trading software firm Patsystems in London.
Garrow started his career at the Paris-based futures exchange MATIF (now Euronext). Over the course of seven years, he worked in the Paris and London offices, expanding the exchange’s pan-European membership and electronic trading connectivity.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Newedge - Former Employees
Category:Calyon Financial - Former Employees
Category:Patsystems - Former Employees
Nicholas Ghanma

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Nicholas Ghanma is a senior associate at Ziliak Law, LLC, a Chicago-based boutique law firm focused on the trading and investment management industry. He joined the firm in May 2014 after working in the legal department of a large broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, as in-house counsel for a hedge fund and as a financial advisor. 
At Ziliak Law, Ghanma focuses his practice on transactional and corporate matters, negotiating and drafting agreements and other contracts, and advising clients on general corporate, securities, licensing, and intellectual property issues.
 
==Background==
Ghanma began his legal career at the Chicago office of Mayer Brown LLP, as an associate in the firm’s corporate and securities practice. There he advised clients on corporate transactions and other matters including mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, private fund formation, licensing of intellectual property and complex finance and loan agreements. 
In 2013, he left Mayer Brown to work as a financial adviser for Edward Jones, and later worked as a legal consultant for hedge fund Alpha Architect LLC.
Ghanma has also worked in the not-for-profit arena advising clients in philanthropic entity formation and tax reporting, and in the publishing industry advising publishers on acquisitions, author contracts, licensing agreements and electronic publishing rights. He has worked with the Wills for Heroes Program, where he advised Chicago police officers and their families on estate planning issues and drafted wills for them on a pro bono basis.
==Licenses==
He has held FINRA series 6, 7, 63 and 66 licenses, and health and life insurance licenses from the State of Hawaii and State of Illinois. He is also licensed to practice law in Illinois, Ohio and Hawaii.
==Education==
Ghanma received a B.S. in Finance and International Business from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2004, and a J.D. from DePaul University in Chicago in 2010.
== References ==
Category:Edward Jones - Former Employees
Nicholas Kennedy

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Nicholas Kennedy is a Paris, France-based exchange traded derivatives executive. He currently serves as head of business development for Euronext for commodities.
== Background ==
Kennedy served in a similar position for NYSE Liffe prior to NYSE Euronext's acquisition by InterContinentalExchange in 2013. He had also served NYSE Liffe as manager of commodity products.
Kennedy previously worked for ED&F Man Commodity Advisors in a brokerage function. He has also been with UBS in soft commodities and with Diaspason Commodities Management and REYL & CIE.
Earlier in his career, he was a sales trader in Pan European equities for Instinet.
== Education ==
He holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in international business from University of Plymouth.
== References ==	
Category:UBS - Former Employees
Category:ED&F Man - Former Employees
Nicholas Notorangelo

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Nicholas Notorangelo is a Chicago-based derivatives technology sales professional who is currently sales director at Corvil, which he joined in March 2017. He was previously a senior vice president of sales for Riskbone LLC.
== Background ==
Before joining Riskbone, Notorangelo was a vice president of sales for QT Information Systems.
Notorangelo was previously director of financial vertical sales for LaSalle Solutions. He was also a sales manager and senior sales manager for Trading Technologies in Chicago from September 2001 to February 2013.
He was a member of the Commodity Markets Council from 2009 to 2013.
He is a former member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. At the CBOT he served as vice chairman of the Dow futures complex from 1997 to 1999.
== Education ==
He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from DePaul University.
== References ==	
Category:Sales Professionals
Category:Trading Technologies - Former Employees
Category:QT Systems - Former Employees
Nicholas Thadaney

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Nicholas Thadaney was appointed president and CEO for global equity capital markets at TMX Group effective September 1, 2015. He is responsible for equity listing and trading activity. He will report to TMX Group CEO Lou Eccleston. He replaced Kevan Cowan, who was president of TMX Markets and group head of equities, who left the company.
In January 2018 it was reported that Thadaney was leaving the stock exchange operator after a reorganization of the company. He agreed to stay on for six weeks at TMX as a special advisor to ensure a smooth transition.
== Background ==
Before joining TMX, Thadaney spent 15 years at ITG Canada, the local unit of agency broker and technology provider ITG. He joined ITG in 2000 as director of sales, and in 2005 he was promoted to CEO. In that role, he also served as chairman and CEO of TriAct Canada, an Alternative Trading System (ATS) which operates MatchNow, Canada’s leading dark pool.
== Education ==
Thadaney holds a B.A. in economics from York University. He also participated in the Institute of Corporate Directors Designation (ICD.D), Directors Education Program at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management.
== References ==
Nicholas Themelis

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Nick Themelis is chief investment officer at MarketAxess, a New York-based platform for the trading of fixed income products. He joined MarketAxess in 2004 as head of technology and product delivery, and was named CIO in March 2005.
== Background ==
Before joining MarketAxess, Themelis was a principal at Promontory Group, an investment and advisory firm focused on the financial services sector, from Oct 2003 to March 2004. 
From March 2001 to August 2003, Themelis was a managing director, chief information officer for North America and global head of fixed income technology at Barclay's Capital. Before that, he served as chief technology officer and a member of the board of directors of AuthentiDate Holdings Corp., a start-up focused on developing leading edge content and encryption technology. 
Prior to his tenure at AuthentiDate, Themelis spent nine years with Lehman Brothers, most recently as senior vice president and global head of the E-Commerce Technology Group and prior as chief information officer for Lehman, Asia where he spent 6 years in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
== Education ==
Themelis received a BS in Computer Science from Hunter College in New York.
== References ==	
Category:Promotory Group - Former Employees
Category:Barclays Capital - Former Employees
Category:Lehman Brothers - Former Employees
Nick Cherney

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Nick Cherney is the CIO of VelocityShares, LLC, which he co-founded in 2009. 
== Background ==
Cherney previously worked at Barclays Capital in New York, where he was responsible for product development and management for iPath ETNs. 
Before Barclays Capital, Nick was a portfolio manager for iShares at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, where he managed more than $25 billion of ETF assets across asset classes. Prior to that, he was an index research analyst at Barclays Global Investors. 
== Education ==
Cherney holds a BA with Highest Honors in Economics from UC Berkeley and is a CFA Charter holder.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:VelocityShares
Nick Fera

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Nick Fera is the CEO of Firm58 and currently sits on the Board of Directors at Denver-based NewsGator Technologies, Inc.. He is also a past President of the Western Springs, Il. District 101 School Board.
== Background ==
Fera has 22 years of experience in the software industry and joined Firm58 as CEO in 2009. Prior to Firm58, he was the Chairman and CEO of Parlano, a group messaging software, from 2003 until Parlano was acquired by Microsoft in October 2007 Fera has also spent time at Platinum Technologies, and as President of The Alcar Group.
== Education ==
Fera holds a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
== MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology ==
===Event===
Fera spoke at the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology event on October 5, 2011 in Chicago. He addressed Question 2: Where is money wasted, lost or inefficient in the transaction chain and how can technology fix it?
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Fera participated in the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology interactive video series. See his responses to the following questions:
*Q1: What is the single greatest opportunity for technology in the financial markets? (June 1, 2011)
*Q2: Where is money wasted, lost or inefficient in the transaction chain and how can technology fix it? (June 22, 2011)
== References ==
Nick Forgan

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Nick Forgan is a managing director with JP Morgan. He has spent 32 of his over 35-year career in the cleared derivatives industry with JP Morgan, where he has held leadership positions in Sydney, Singapore and London.
In 2024, Forgan was inducted into the Futures Industry Association's Futures Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 to commemorate outstanding contributions to the global futures and options community. 
== Background ==
Forgan began his career in 1987 as a pit trader on the Sydney Futures Exchange. In 1991, he joined JP Morgan from Commonwealth Bank of Australia and moved to Singapore in 1996 for a stint that would last 18 years and include his appointment as CEO of JP Morgan Securities Singapore with regional responsibility for futures and options in Asia. 
He served as a board member of SIMEX, chaired the Singapore Exchange Advisory Committee and served for 12 years as an FIA Asia board member.
Forgan played a key role in expanding futures markets in Asia, particularly in enhancing Asian exchanges and clearinghouses' understanding of global risk management best practices. He was a pioneer in providing access to China futures exchanges and instrumental in building a successful China joint venture, which is now a wholly owned JP Morgan entity.
In 2014, Forgan assumed responsibility for the European derivatives clearing business in London. He has continued his contributions to the industry as a member of the FIA European Advisory Board and the ICE Clear Europe Client Risk Committee. 
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Nick Leeson

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Nick Leeson is a former trader for British merchant bank Barings Bank, which collapsed in 1995 after Leeson's estimated $1.4 billion in losses were discovered in an account he had hidden for most of the early 1990s. He traded for the bank on the Singapore International Money Exchange (SIMEX). After the scandal broke, Leeson fled Singapore and led police on a week-long search for his whereabouts. He was 28 years old at the time.
Leeson ultimately served six and a half years in prison following his conviction. He now works as a speaker and has published two books.
== Background ==
Leeson was a manager of futures markets on the Singapore Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) for Barings, betting on Nikkei Index. He began his career as a clerk with royal bank Coutts, followed by a variety of banking jobs before he landed his position at Barings.
Following the fall of Barings and a battle with colon cancer, Leeson joined the Galway United Football Club as its commercial manager in 2005. He became the general manager later that year, and then CEO in 2007. He resigned in 2011, but maintains shares of Galway United and is an active representative with the Football Association of Ireland.
== Education ==
Leeson holds a bachelor's degree in psychology.
== Publications ==
*Rogue Trader, Warner (1997)
*Back From the Brink: Coping With Stress, Virgin Books (2010)
== References ==
Category:Rogue Traders
Nick Ronalds

Nick Ronalds is managing director of the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (ASIFMA's) equity division. 
== Background ==
Before joining ASIFMA in 2013, Ronalds was president of RhoFinancial. While with RhoFinancial, Ronalds was tasked with gaining exposure for clients in the Asian markets and led the charge in creating FIA's corresponding Asian body, FIA Asia, where he was executive director. 
Prior to these positions, Ronalds was global marketing manager of ABN AMRO Futures and UBS Securities. He is a former resident of Japan, having spent seven years in Tokyo in the 1980s and 1990s managing the Chicago Mercantile Exchange representative office, where he was instrumental in getting the electronic trading system GLOBEX approved by Japan's Ministry of Finance, and later the joint Asian rep office of the CME and Chicago Board of Trade. Ronalds is also a former member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee. 
Ronalds has published numerous articles on futures and finance in a wide range of publications, and co-authored a chapter on Chinese commodity markets for The Intelligent Commodity Investor, published in spring 2007 by RiskBooks.
== Education ==
Ronalds attended Tufts University and the University of Chicago - Booth School of Business. 
== Resources ==
*ASIFMA's website: www.asifma.org
== References ==
Category:Industry Association Officials
Category:FIA Asia
Category:Authors
Category:Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Category:Former CME Staff
Category:ABN AMRO
Category:UBS
Category:UBS
Nick Sawyer

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Nick Sawyer is a London-based journalist working for Incisive Media. He is the Editor-in-Chief a at Risk magazine.
Sawyer is also the editorial director for the risk management and alternative investment division of Incisive Media. He has held that position since 2007.
== Background ==
His editorial responsibilities encompass all Incisive Media brands in the risk management and alternative investment. His current duties include running the online and email service, Risk.net.
Sawyer has also be an editor of Risk and also Asia Risk for Incisive Media.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Incisive Media