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Ayodeji Balogun

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Ayodeji Balogun is a Nigerian entrepreneur and the group chief executive officer (GCEO) of AFEX, a private-sector commodities exchange and tech-enabled agriculture company in Nigeria. He is recognized for his contributions to transforming agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by connecting smallholder farmers to commodity and financial markets.
== Background ==
=== Early Life and Education ===
Ayodeji Balogun was born in Ijebu-ode, Ogun State, Nigeria. He holds a diploma in heavy equipment engineering from Penn Foster University, Scranton, and a Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering from Lagos State University. He furthered his education by earning an MBA from Lagos Business School and completing the Global CEO – Africa program at IESE Business School, Spain. Additionally, he holds a certificate in Creative Leadership from the THNK School of Creative Leadership.
=== Career ===
Balogun began his career as an analyst with Unilever Nigeria Plc and later became an associate at Doreo Partners, where he contributed to Nigeria’s Agriculture Transformation Plan in 2011. He joined AFEX Commodities Exchange Limited as country manager in July 2014 and was appointed CEO in December 2019. In January 2023, he became the Group CEO of AFEX.
Under his leadership, AFEX has facilitated over $300 million in annual crop trades, providing infrastructure, finance, and market access to over 450,000 smallholder farmers. The company has expanded its operations from West Africa into East Africa, specifically Kenya and Uganda, and plans to further expand into Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Zambia.
=== Board Memberships and Other Roles ===
Balogun serves on several boards, including the Association of Security Exchange in Nigeria and the Capital Market Development Fund. He is also a board member of the Corporate Council on Africa and the Association of Futures Markets.
== References ==	
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Commodity Traders
Category:Chief Executive Officers
Category:Agriculture in Nigeria
Category:Businesspeople in Agriculture
B2Broker

B2Broker is a liquidity and technology provider for the cryptocurrency and foreign exchange (FX) industry.
 
B2Broker provides cryptocurrency liquidity to many major forex brokers and exchanges and is one of the first companies in the world to launch cryptocurrency solutions. The company offers multi-connectivity cross connection to 5 different trading platforms: MT4, MT5, One Zero, PrimeX and B2Trader connectable via FIX API, Rest API and Socket API to any system. B2Broker claims to deliver liquidity to any trading system and CFD liquidity to any FX and crypto broker and crypto exchange. 
== History ==
B2Broker commenced operations in 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia, entering the market with two products: White Label MT4 /MT5 solution and B2Core (traders room and back office software) for brokers, integrated with MT4/MT5 and continues its development of WEB, API and B2Bridge. 
In 2015 the company developed the first platform for launching a forex brokerage business. It went on to expand its product line, adding aggregated liquidity from 3 different liquidity providers (including LMAX) and legal and financial services. B2Broker also opened a second office in Kiev.
 
In 2016, B2Broker added PAMM/MAM/Social Trading into the product line, upgraded DMA liquidity by implementing a professional solution based on Integral, strong liquidity solutions for big brokerage companies. In addition, the company also added liquidity on shares and launched a package offer called "Forex Broker Turnkey". B2Broker opened a sales/marketing office in Moscow.
 
In 2017, the company opened an office in Hong Kong and further integrated PrimeXM and OneZero into its offering.
== Expansion ==
In 2018, B2Broker opened an office in Cyprus, bringing the total to three offices globally and its total number of employees to 60. Most recently, the company launched a new project called B2BinPay which allows merchants to start accepting cryptocurrency as a payment method, integrating 12 blockchains in one single API allowing any broker, exchange or internet shop to implement the system in one hour.
== Solutions and products ==
*Institutional Liquidity
*MT4/MT5 White Label
*Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway
*Cryptocurrency Exchange Turnkey
*Cryptocurrency Broker Turnkey
*Forex Broker Turnkey
== Events ==
*Blockchain Life 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia
*iFX Expo International, Cyprus, 2019
*Wiki Finance Expo, Bangkok, Thailand
*Blockchain Life 2020 in Moscow, Russia
== References ==
Category:Liquidity Providers
Category:Cryptocurrencies
Category:Foreign Exchange
BEST

BEST (Bitpanda Ecosystem Token) is the native token of Bitpanda, an Austrian fintech company. Launched in 2019, BEST is an ERC-20 token that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and serves as the cornerstone of Bitpanda's loyalty and rewards program.
BEST was introduced in 2019 as part of what has been described as the most successful European IEO (initial exchange offering) to date. The token was created to offer Bitpanda users additional benefits and to fuel the expansion of the Bitpanda ecosystem. 
In 2023, Bitpanda introduced BEST 2.0, an upgrade to the framework of the existing token. This upgrade brought new features and benefits to BEST holders, including a revised loyalty program and enhanced transparency measures. 
== Features and Benefits ==
BEST offers several benefits to its holders:
# Loyalty Program: BEST holders gain access to Bitpanda's loyalty program, with benefits increasing based on the amount of BEST held.
# Weekly Rewards: Users can earn up to 15% additional BEST annually through weekly rewards. 
# Instant Trade Bonus: BEST holders can earn up to 0.25% of their trading volume back in BEST.
# Increased Staking and Yield Rewards: BEST holders can increase their staking rewards and Bitpanda Cash Plus yields by up to 12.5%. 
# Priority Access: BEST holders get priority access to new Bitpanda features and products.
== Token Burn Mechanism ==
BEST incorporates a token burn mechanism designed to reduce the total supply over time. Bitpanda burns BEST in the amount of up to 25% of collected trading fees by BEST holders with a VIP Level. This process is repeated monthly until a maximum of 75% of the total BEST supply (out of 1 billion BEST originally issued) has been burned.
The first BEST token burn event took place on January 30, 2020, earlier than initially planned due to higher-than-expected usage of BEST by Bitpanda users.
== Transparency Measures ==
In 2023, Bitpanda announced the formation of an Ecosystem Committee, consisting of BEST team members and independent industry experts, to enhance transparency within the BEST community. The company also committed to publishing additional key performance indicators (KPIs) in each BEST burn blog, providing insights into the distribution and performance of BEST tokens.
== References ==
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Tokens
Category:Fintech
Category:Bitpanda
Category:Loyalty Programs
Category:Ethereum Tokens
BEST Direct

BEST Direct is the proprietary electronic trading platform offered by PFGBEST.com. The latest version is BEST Direct 8. 
Since 1998, a total of 17 electronic platforms have been spun off from the original BESTDirect. Forex trading capabilities have also been added to the existing and new futures platforms, including BEST Direct 8.0, BEST Direct Trade Navigator, BEST Direct ProTrader, BEST Direct Web, and more. The company also licenses and white-labels many of its proprietary platform to other firms.
Some of the features of BEST Direct™ 8 are:
*Trailing stops and profit targets.
*OCO orders.
*Depth of Market Trading Panel.
*Trade window with complete positions summary, trade panel, order history, and real-time account status.
*Strategy window.
*Sortable order management panels that can be filtered by product or by order status.
== References ==
Category:Futures Trading Platforms
Category:PFGBEST
BITPoint

BITPoint is a licensed cryptocurrency exchange based in Tokyo, Japan. There are BITPoint affiliates in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Panama which operate virtual currency exchanges.
==Hack==
On July 12, 2019, it halted all services after noticing an irregular withdrawal from its hot wallet on July 11. The exchange later announced that it had been hacked, losing 3.5 billion yen ($32 million) worth of its digital assets held in the hot wallet. While approximately $20 million of those losses belonged to customers, one-third of the lost assets reportedly belonged to Remixpoint, the company that owns BITPoint.
According to a July 15 report from English-language Japanese business newspaper Mainichi, BITPoint discovered about 2.3 million of the missing funds trading on European platforms that use software originally provided by BITPoint. On July 17, representatives of BITPoint told reporters of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun that all of the roughly 50,000 users who lost their assets in the hacking attack would receive refunds on a 1:1 basis.
The company re-opened some trading services on August 6, 2019, after a successful safety assessment of the platform's wallet. It proposed to relaunch margin tradiing on August 9.
== Products and Services ==
BITPoint offers digital asset trading services for bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether, Litecoin, and XRP. The company also offers wallets to its customers to store their digital assets.
== Key People ==
* Oda Genki 
* Hito 
* Yohei Onishi 
* Masaharu Hino
== References ==
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Category: digital assets
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: altcoins
Category: regulation
Category: decentralized applications
Category: distributed ledgers
Category: criminal activity
Category: Asia
Category: wallets with security issues
Category: criminal activity
BNP Paribas Group

BNP Paribas, based in Paris, France, is the European Union’s leading bank, operating in 63 countries with nearly 183,000 employees. Its three main fields of activity are: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services; Investment & Protection Services; and Corporate & Institutional Banking. 
Its subsidiaries include Bank of the West, First Hawaiian Bank and L’Atelier BNP Paribas. 
In 2022, BNP agreed to sell its Bank of the West unit to Bank of Montreal for $16 billion in cash. 
== History ==
BNP Paribas was founded in 2000 as a result of a merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. 
In December of 2008, The European Commission cleared the acquisition of the Belgian and Luxembourg banking arms of finance group Fortis by BNP Paribas. 
On June 30, 2014, BNP Paribas pleaded guilty to two felony counts as part of a record $8.83 billion deal to settle an investigation into alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Sudan, Iran and Cuba. The Justice Department and other authorities had been pushing the bank to plead guilty and pay a $10 billion fine. 
The Manhattan District Attorney's office and other agencies had been investigating the bank for years. The bank admitted to criminal charges of filing false business records and conspiracy. In addition to the $8.83 billion penalty, a record in a sanctions case, the settlement also includes a temporary ban on dollar-clearing transactions, and the cutting of ties with some employees.
U.S. authorities had originally proposed placing an immediate long-term ban on BNP’s dollar-clearing function. Instead, BNP will be barred from processing oil and gas transactions in dollars for a year, beginning Jan. 1, 2015. The agreement spared other forms of dollar-based transactions.
== Acquisitions and Partnerships ==
In June 2023, BNP Paribas and Orange entered into exclusive negotiations to define a referral partnership for Orange Bank’s customer portfolio in France, develop financing solutions for mobile devices, and discuss the terms of a takeover of Orange Bank’s business in Spain. As a result of the negotiations, Orange selected BNP Paribas to offer banking for its customers in France and Spain.
In August 2024, the bank entered into exclusive talks to buy the investment-management arm of the insurer AXA and reach a long-term partnership for 5.1 billion euros ($5.52 billion). The deal if completed would create a European asset-management giant.
== Products == 
BNP Paribas offers investment products and services through BNP Paribas Securities Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas, S.A.
== Key People ==
*Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, Chief Executive Officer
*Jean Lemierre, Chairman of the Board of Directors
*Yann Gérardin, Chief Operating Officer, Corporate & Institutional Banking
*Thierry Laborde, Chief Operating Officer, Retail Banking
*Laurent David, Deputy Chief Operating Officer
== References ==
Category:Banks
Category:FIA Regular Members
Category:ISDA Primary Members
BNP Paribas Securities Services

BNP Paribas Securities Services is a provider of securities services and investment operations solutions to issuers, financial institutions and institutional investors. It is under the umbrella of BNP Paribas. Its client base is made up of 900 institutional clients, with a strong presence in continental Europe and the United Kingdom, as well as Australasia.
More than half of BNP Paribas Securities Services’ operations are outside France. It is present in all the main European financial centers, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:BNP Paribas
Category:Securities Firms
BNY Mellon Clearing

BNY Mellon Clearing is a clearing subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. It was created in June 2010 to clear futures and derivatives trades on behalf of institutional clients. BNY Mellon Clearing, LLC is a U.S. registered futures commission merchant and a member of the National Futures Association, and plans to become a clearing member on major exchanges and central clearinghouses on a global basis to support the trading activities of its clients.
Sanjay Kannambadi serves as CEO of BNY Mellon Clearing, reporting to Art Certosimo, senior executive vice president and CEO of Alternative and Broker-Dealer Services at BNY Mellon. Previously, Kannambadi was the head of BNY Mellon's Office of Innovation, where he led a team responsible for the development and commercialization of new products and services across the company's businesses.
BNY Mellon is an asset management and securities services company established in 2007 from the merger of Mellon Financial Corporation and The Bank of New York Company, Inc. Headquartered in New York, BNY Mellon has $22.3 trillion in assets under custody or administration and $1.1 trillion under management. 
In August 2011, Chairman and CEO Robert P. (Bob) Kelly resigned due to reported problems with his management style. President Gerald L. Hassell was appointed to both chairman and CEO positions, effective immediately.
 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
For Institutions and Corporations: help organizations build assets, enhance performance, improve operating efficiency and reduce risk using asset management and securities services solutions.
For Private Clients: For individuals, sophisticated financial solutions, including investment and wealth management, private banking and share owner services.
For Consultants and Advisors: work with consultants and advisors to help them select and present the services that best meet the needs of the clients they serve.
== Key People ==
*Sanjay Kannambadi, Chief Executive Officer
*Curtis Y. Arledge, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Investment Management
*Richard Brueckner, Chairman, Pershing
== References ==
Category:The Bank of New York Mellon
Category:BNY Mellon Clearing
BOCI Global Commodities (UK) Ltd.

BOCI Global Commodities (UK) Ltd. is a unit of BOC International Holdings Ltd., an investment banking subsidiary of Bank of China Ltd. On April 24, 2012, BOCI Global Commodities was approved for category two associate broker clearing membership with the London Metal Exchange and became the first Chinese LME member. This membership allows BOCI Global Commodities to trade by phone and electronically.
BOCI Global Commodities applied for membership with the LME on March 28, 2012. The company's metals brokerage team will employ eight people in London, and will need to purchase 25,000 B shares in the LME to activate membership. According to Dow Jones Newswires in April 2012, the LME was rumored to be working on approvals for a network of Chinese metal warehouses.
== History ==
BOC International Holdings Limited (BOCI) serves as a primary platform for the Bank of China's investment banking business. BOCI was incorporated in Hong Kong on July 10, 1998 and began as China Development Finance Company (HK) Limited in 1979. BOCI established BOCI Securities Limited in Shanghai in February 2002. In partnering with China National Petroleum Corp, State Development & Investment Corp, Hongta Tobacco (Group) Ltd, China General Technology (Group) Holdings Ltd and Shanghai State-owned Assets Operations Co Ltd., BOCI Securities Limited became the first Sino-foreign joint-venture securities firm to be granted a general securities license for Renminbi-denominated ordinary shares (Class A shares). The firm qualified as an innovative securities provider by China Securities Regulatory Commission in 2006.
BOCI has offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing, and has been previously admitted as a clearing member of LCH.Clearnet. BOCI has also received regulatory clearance from the Financial Services Authority.
== Products and Services ==
BOCI offers investment banking services, including corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, financial advisory, equity securities, fixed income, derivative products, private wealth management, asset management, private equity as well as leveraged and structured finance.
== Key People ==
*Li Li Hui, Chairman
== References ==
Category:Bank of China
Category:Investment Banking
Category:London Metal Exchange
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
BP

BP is the world's sixth largest oil concern, behind Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, National Iranian Oil, Exxon Mobil and PetroChina. 
BP explores for oil and gas in 30 countries and has reserves of 17.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent. It is the largest oil and gas producer in the US, as well as being a top refiner. BP processes more than 2.4 million barrels of crude oil per day. The company markets its products in more than 70 countries and operates about 21,800 gas stations worldwide. 
In 2005, BP created an alternative energy unit with an initial investment of $1.8 billion to develop green energy sources, with what became a controversial advertising campaign (BP:Beyond Petroleum). As of 2013, the company invested over $6.6 billion. 
On April 20, 2010, a gas release and subsequent explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. As of the end of 2012, the company had spent $14 billion on the cleanup and other response activities. 
== History ==
In 1901, an English entrepreneur named William D'Arcy received exclusive rights to explore for oil in Southwest Persia. He formed the Anglo Persian Oil Company, which became a profitable concern when D'Arcy and his team discovered oil in May 1908, after have searched for eight years. Churchill argued in Parliament that Britain needed a secure oil supply to protect its global interests; a majority agreed and the UK government took a stake in Anglo Persion Oil. Anglo Persian bought British Petroleum, a subsidiary of a German company, in 1917, and eventually became BP.
In August 1998, BP announced a $48 billion acquisition of U.S. oil giant Amoco. The deal closed in early 1999. Three months later, BP Amoco acquired Atlantic Richfield Co. (Arco) in a $27 billion stock swap.
== References ==
BPX Digital Securities Exchange

BPX Digital Securities Exchange is a fintech company founded in 2023, dedicated to the issuance, trading, and lending of dematerialized and tokenized real estate securities. Headquartered in London, BPX aims to be the first and only digital securities exchange for real estate investment funds, operating in a market regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
== History ==
BPX was founded and incorporated in the UK in 2023. The company has since been working on establishing its operational and technological foundations while pursuing FCA authorization to operate as a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF). BPX has also incorporated in the UAE and established an office there as part of its growth strategy.
== Products and Services ==
BPX provides a complete capital markets workflow as a service, focusing on three main areas:
# Issuance: Facilitating the creation and distribution of digital real estate securities.
# Trading: Providing a platform for the buying and selling of tokenized real estate securities.
# Lending: Offering lending services related to real estate securities.
The company aims to enhance real estate fund liquidity for investment managers, provide a sales and capital-raising channel for property developers and owners, and deliver access, choice, and security for investors.
== Key People ==
File:Lord Stanley Fink.png|Stanley Fink - Board Chairman
File:John-Edwards.png|John Edwards - Non-Executive Director 
File:RobertBarnes.jpeg|Robert Barnes - Co-CEO
File:Ali-Celiker-Co-CEO-BPX.png|Ali Celiker - Co-CEO
File:Rochelle-De-Friend.png|Rochelle De Friend - COO
File:Marco-De-Stefano.png|Marco De Stefano - CFO
File:James Newbery.png|James Newberry - Product Director 
File:Darius-Divwalla.png|Darius Divwalla - Investment Manager
File:Ayhan-Buberka.png|Ayhan Buberka - Distribution Director 
File:Richard-Lester-3 copy.png|Richard Lester -Distribution
File:Alex-Riachi.png|Alex Riachi - Business Development 
File:Anj-Latif.png|Anj Latif - CIO
File:Alex-Rudkin.png|Alex Rudkin - Compliance Officer 
== Regulatory Status ==
As of 2024, BPX's application for FCA authorization to operate an MTF is pending. The company has also submitted a response to the joint Bank of England/FCA Digital Securities Sandbox consultation and plans to apply to join the sandbox.
== References ==
Category:Fintech
Category:Exchanges
Category:Digital Assets
Category:Real Estate
Category:Startups
Category:Financial Technology
Category:London Stock Exchange
BRIX

BRIX (Brazilian Intercontinental Exchange) is a Brazilian marketplace for electric power launched by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) on Aug. 1, 2011. BRIX offers an electronic market for Brazilian power contracts, including a range of risk management tools for eligible power market participants. Bids, offers and trades are shown in real time on the BRIX screen for all participants.
== History ==
BRIX launched on June 28 with 30 market participants, including Agroenergia Comercializadora, Bunge, CESP, Clealco, Compass, Coteminas, EletroNorte, Eucatex, Ibrame Laminacao, MPX, Quanta, Rexam, Seal Energy and White Martins. In the first two days of operation, power contracts representing 40.3 MWh were traded.
BRIX was established as a joint venture between ICE, Roberto Teixeira da Costa, economist, founder and first president of CVM, the Brazilian financial regulator; Eike Batista, CEO of EBX Holdings which invests across industrial sectors including energy, infrastructure and mining; Josue Gomes da Silva, president of Coteminas, the largest textile group in the Americas; and Marcelo Parodi, founder and president of Compass Energia.
== Products and Services ==
BRIX offers an extensive variety of power contracts negotiable for the current month as well as for future delivery. They offer monthly, quarter, biannual, and annual contracts that can be traded at both fixed price or variable price. 
== Key People ==
Marcelo Mello, President 
== References ==
Category:Exchanges