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Alexander Potemkin

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Alexander Potemkin is senior vice-president for Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX). Before taking his current position, Potemkin served as president of MICEX from April of 2003 until September of 2008. He also held the position of chairman of the MICEX Exchange Council from 1993 to 1999.
== Background ==
From 1982 to 1991 Potemkin worked at Vnesheconombank and Gosbank, first as head of the department for currency auctions of Vnesheconombank, and later as the director of the currency exchange of Gosbank (which later became MICEX).
Potemkin took an active part in the formation of the currency market in Russia; from December of 1991 until November of 1998, he worked for the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. From 1996 until 1998 he held the position of deputy chairman for the Bank of Russia, and was a member on the board of directors for the bank. 
From 1999 until 2000 he also worked as an advisor to the board of directors of Vnesheconombank. 
Since 2000 he has been first deputy chairman of the board of MFK Bank. After the consolidation of the business of ROSBANK and MFK Bank in July 2002, Potemkin was appointed as deputy chairman of the board of directors for ROSBANK.
== Education ==
Potemkin graduated from Moscow State University, the Faculty of Economics.
== References ==
Category:Russia
Alexandra "Lexy" Prodromos

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Alexandra (Lexy) Prodromos is executive director of the Chicago Blockchain Center. 
== Background ==
Prodromos heard about smart contracts in 2014 and became interested in exploring their application to legal contracts. In learning more about them she eventually discovered, and became infatuated with, blockchain technology. 
As a college graduation gift, her parents gave her a ticket to the Consensus conference in New York City, where she met Vitalik Buterin and heard Matthew Roszak, the founder of Bloq and the Chicago Blockchain Center, speak. 
She also heard the governor of Delaware present the Delaware Blockchain Initiative and decided that Chicago could be a hub for blockchain as well. She approached the newly created Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology with a proposal and ended up working with them on a blockchain working group as its only non-government participant. With the help of a number of other agencies, they created the Illinois Blockchain Initiative (IBI).
She met Rozsak again at a later conference and he hired her for the position at Bloq. 
Starting at the company in 2016, Prodomos became business development manager at Bloq, a fintech company specializing in dApps and blockchain technology. In that role, she promoted Bloq's software and venture initiatives. She also served as the company's head of information strategy for the first quarter of 2020 before leaving for to become director of marketing and technology at the Illinois Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics and Stem Cell Center in April of that year. 
== Education ==
Prodromos earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from Pepperdine University and a Masters of Science in Information Systems from Northwestern University.
== JLN Interviews ==
Prodromos was a guest on the CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast in 2019.
== References ==	
Category:blockchain
Category:cryptocurrency
Category:bios
Category:women in cryptocurrency
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Alexandra Albright

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Alexandra Albright is a Chicago-based lawyer, compliance professional and exchange executive who serves as senior vice president and Cboe Global Markets (Cboe)'s chief compliance officer. She was named to that newly-created position on April 13, 2012. 
She oversees compliance procedures at Cboe's exchanges and reports to chairman and CEO Fredric Tomczyk. 
== Background ==
Albright came to the Cboe from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where she focused on compliance, litigation and corporate finance.
She spent from 2001 until 2006 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in Washington, D.C., where she was senior counsel in the Division of Enforcement specializing in short sales and short-sale-related trading activities. While in the Division of Enforcement, she took an active role in several high-profile investigations involving illegal short selling, insider trading and violations of Rule 105 of Regulation M.
== Education ==
*LL.M., Financial Services Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
*B.A., Philosophy, Tulane University
*J.D., University of Denver - Sturm College of Law
== References ==	
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Kirkland & Ellis LLP - Former Employees
Category:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Former Employees
Category:Lawyers
Alexandra Gorbokon

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Alexandra (Alex) Gorbokon is a manager in the corporate communications department of CME Group. She joined the derivatives exchange in July 2011.
== Background ==
Gorbokon's career in public relations began in 2006 with Weber Shandwick, where she spent four years as an account executive. After that, she spent one year at Burston-Marsteller, before joining CME Group in 2011.
== Education ==
Gorbokon earned a bachelor of arts in journalism in 2006 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
== References ==	
Category:Corporate Communication Professionals
Category:CME Group
Alexandre Zeller

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Alexandre Zeller is chairman of the board of directors of SIX Group. He was elected to that position at the general meeting of shareholders on May 29, 2013, succeeding Prof. Peter Gomez. He was elected until 2017. 
== Background ==
Zeller previously was CEO of HSBC Private Bank in Switzerland and regional CEO of HSBC Global Private Bank EMEA. He has extensive experience in banking, including serving as CEO of Banque Cantonale Vaudoise and holding various management positions at Credit Suisse.
== Education ==
Zeller has a graduate degree in Business Administration (HEC) from the University of Lausanne and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston.
== References ==
Alfred H. Gruetzmacher II

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Alfred H. Gruetzmacher II (1919 – August 25, 2000) was an American commodities trader, broker, and former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). He was known for his leadership in the commodities market, philosophical writings, and diverse personal interests.
== Background ==
=== Early life and education ===
Gruetzmacher was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1919. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where he developed an early interest in raising canaries with his father, a former semipro baseball player who owned a commercial real estate firm. He attended Ripon College in Wisconsin before his military service.
=== Military service ===
During World War II, Gruetzmacher served in the United States Army as a forward observer. He was wounded in Europe and received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant. For his service, he was awarded a Bronze Star.
=== Career ===
After briefly working for his father's real estate company following the war, Gruetzmacher purchased a membership at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1953. He began his career as an independent commodities trader and later served as a partner of John T. Geldermann & Company 1961 to 1969 and a director and vice-president of John T. Geldermann Inc. from 1969 to 1984.
Gruetzmacher held several leadership positions at the CBOT:
* Member of Board of Directors (1961-1964}
* Second ViceChairman (1965)
* Vice chairman (1966–1967)
* Chairman (1980)
He was also involved with:
* National Grain Dealers Association
* Chicago Board Options Exchange
* Advisory councils to the business schools at Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Chicago
Gruetzmacher sold his CBOT membership in 1986.
=== Personal life and interests ===
Gruetzmacher was married to Marcella, to whom he wrote romantic letters during his wartime service. The couple had at least one daughter, Gail Stuedemann.
His personal interests included:
* Writing poems and short stories
* Raising and racing homing pigeons
* Owning thoroughbred horses
* Collecting coins and old stamped and postmarked envelopes
Gruetzmacher was known for his intellectual pursuits and was described by his daughter as "an intellectual" and "a philosopher."
=== Later years and death ===
Approximately eight years before his death, Gruetzmacher moved from Midlothian, Illinois, to California. He died on August 25, 2000, at the age of 81, in Asistencia Villa Rehabilitation Center in Redlands, California, due to complications from pneumonia.
== References ==	
Category:Former CBOT Chairmen
Category:Deceased
Category:Deceased Industry Executives
Category:Geldermann - Former Employees
Category:Former Exchange Chairmen
Alfred Winslow Jones

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Alfred Winslow Jones is known as the father of the hedge fund industry. He and four friends formed the first hedge fund in 1949, with Jones as the managing partner. His dissertation from Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in Sociology, was turned into a published book called Life, Liberty and Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights. 
His innovation in fund management was to combine two techniques: buying stocks with leverage (or margin), and selling short other stocks. Each technique was considered risky and highly speculative, but when properly combined would result in a conservative portfolio. 
== Background ==
Jones started A.W. Jones & Co. at the age of 48. In his earlier life, he was in the Foreign Service in Berlin, and then monitored civilian relief efforts for the Quakers in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II he covered finance, politics, and the war effort for Fortune Magazine. By 1948 he had left Fortune but was working freelance for the magazine on an article entitled “Fashions in Forecasting.” It was during the research for this piece on technical stock market analysis that he began to formulate the ideas for his fund.
== Education ==
Jones was educated at Harvard and later received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University.
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AlgoFast

AlgoFast was an event-driven algo trading platform that utilizes a high speed machine readable news feed.Bouchard Systems LLC was incorporated in 2011. In 2012, the company name was changed to that of their flagship product, AlgoFast. AlgoFast has disappeared from public view. 
== History ==
The AlgoFast software was originally written to simplify the details of the trading algorithms that the CEO of the company had designed.
AlgoFast takes in the Dow Jones Newswires elementized news feed. AlgoFast was written directly to the CME, CBOT, Nymex, Comex, as well as the Interactive Brokers and CQG APIs.
The UK Forex Awards Nominated AlgoFast as the "Best Algorithmic Trading Technology" of 2012.
==Justin Bouchard John Lothian News Interview==
Justin Bouchard of AlgoFast on the Potential for Event Driven Trading
In today’s markets, new technology is getting more granular. Justin Bouchard, CEO of AlgoFast, has built his firm on event trading with new technology that allows traders to take positions on events such as Federal Reserve and central bank statements, employment reports, earnings and GDP numbers. He spoke with John Lothian News editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf about event trading, how AlgoFast works and why algorithms are not a bad thing. Published Oct. 29, 2012.
== Products ==
*Logic Window
*Gradient Scale Order System
*Pre-Trade Warning System
*Pre-Trade Event Risk System
Machine Readable News Events:
*Economic Releases from 30+ countries
*Treasury Reports
*Department of Labor
*Department of Energy
*Corporate Earnings Reports
*Bankruptcies
*Analyst Ratings Changes
*Sovereign Debt Ratings
== Key People ==
*Justin Bouchard, Founder and CEO
== References ==
Category:AlgoFast
Category:Trading Platforms
Category:Event Trading
Category:Algorithmic Trading
Category:Defunct Firms
AlgoServer

AlgoServer is Patsystems algorithmic trading tool. AlgoServer facilitates straightforward development and distribution of brokers’ proprietary algorithms to customers, along with integration with Patsystems’ Order Management System (OMS) for seamless management and execution of orders. 
AlgoServer currently supports single-contract algorithms. In addition to support for proprietary algorithms, three standard algorithms will be available to work with AlgoServer:
* Time-sliced orders 
This method supports the execution of a large order in smaller clips over a specified 
period of time, requiring selection of either the clip size or time interval; 
* “With a tick” 
Also known as “Finessing”, this method allows a trader to exploit falling volume at 
a less-favourable price level as an indicator of an imminent price move, by moving 
their own order price to meet the change; 
* OCO Limit Stop 
An “Order Cancels Order” method, whereby the profit target is set with a Limit order, 
while a Stop order provides protection from losses.
 
 
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AlgoTrade

AlgoTrade is a financial services firm that provides electronic and algorithmic software for the trading industry. They design, develop and implement custom, multi-asset class algorithmic packages including execution services, order and risk management, graphic user interfaces and API connectivity. Their clients include FCMs, exchanges, brokers, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. 
== History ==
AlgoTrade launched in April of 2009. They became members of Trading Technologies' Partner Program in December of 2009. 
== Products and Services ==
AlgoTrade provides customized electronic trading services including:
* Custom Application Development 
* Market Data Optimization
* Graphic User Interfaces
* Automated Trading Development
* API Connectivity
== Key People ==
* Founder and Managing Director, Mike Persico
* Managing Director, Gene Koziarz
== References ==
Category:Independent Software Vendors
Algo Technologies Ltd

Algo Technologies is a New York - and London-based technology firm serving financial exchanges, and specializes in algorithmic trading, execution, and market data services. The firm was co-founded in March 2010 by Hirander Misra, Alexei Lebedev and Rami Habib.
The firm was acquired by the Intercontinental Exchange Group in April 2014. 
== History ==
Habib and Lebedev were both senior executives at ALGOEngineering, a trading technology firm founded in 2001 to develop solutions for connectivity and market data; Lebedev as CEO of the firm’s US operating entity and Habib as CEO of the European division. ALGO Technologies was established as a separate company to deliver ALGOEngineering’s technologies to the wider market; Misra was named CEO.
In April 2010, Algo Technologies introduced ALGO M2, its low-latency trade matching engine for internalizers, exchanges and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs). The firm claims to have the lowest latency in the industry, with a round trip of 16 microseconds.
Misra left the firm in July 2011 and, soon after, co-founded Global Markets Exchange Group (GMEX), a London-based derivatives exchange.
== Key People ==
*Rami Habib, co-founder, CEO
*Alexei Lebedev, co-founder, director
*Howard Morgan, chairman
*Vladimir Parizhsky, director
== References ==
Algomi

Algomi provides an information matching service for fixed income markets. Founded in 2012, the company offers its Honeycomb service, which provides an information matching system that directs buyers to sellers in the fixed income market. It also allows banks to let their clients see which bank will best be able to move their order, without announcing intent to the larger market. On the sell side it allows sellers to find potential buyers and see how recently they have requested a quote. 
The company is privately held. It is backed by investment from Lakestar, Euronext, AllianceBernstein and S&P Global and has offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. 
== History ==
The company was founded in 2012 in the UK by Stu Taylor (formerly of UBS), Usman Khan and Robert Howes (founders of CAPXD), and Michael Schmidt (also from UBS). 
Its Honeycomb service went live in 2014, beginning with sell side users before expanding to buy side users. It added Interactive Data's hourly pricing information into its system in July of 2015. It also won FinTech Innovation of the Year from EuroMoney in 2015.
In May of 2017, AllianceBernstein agreed to sell its bond-trading software platform to Algomi. AllianceBernstein will receive a minority stake in Algomi and a seat on its board.
On June 18, 2019, Algomi announced a feature allowing clients to execute trades directly on Liquidnet Inc. and Trumid Financial LLC through its own interface. The move is Algomi's attempt to be first to market with a bond execution-management system, or EMS, like those that have existed for more than a decade in the equity markets.
== Products and Services ==
Honeycomb, an information matching service for the fixed income market. 
== Key People ==
*Scott Eaton, CEO
*Usman Khan, CTO and Co-Founder
*Yen-Ling Tan, COO
*Robert Howes, Co-Founder and Board Advisor
*Michael Schmidt, Co-Founder and Board Advisor
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Algorand

Algorand Foundation is a Boston, Massachusetts, company that launched its blockchain mainnet on June 19, 2019. At the same time, it concluded a sale of 25 million tokens at a price of $2.40, raising $60 million. The company's press release stated, "The Algorand Foundation is the first organization to conduct a fully transparent global auction on its own blockchain." (Despite its "global" nature, the Algorand Foundation website states, "Please note that participation in auctions is not possible for the following excluded jurisdictions: United States of America and its territories, Canada, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Republic of Crimea, [and] People's Republic of China . . .") 
In earlier fundings, Algorand had raised $66 million from Union Square Ventures and Pillar Venture Capital.
According to Messari, an online cryptocurrency data and research news service, Algorand is the high transaction and settlement speed protocol for a permissionless blockchain. Algorand Foundation founder, Silvio Micali, is an MIT professor and the 2012 winner of the Turing Award, and international prize for computer scientists. 
==References==
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Algorithmic trading

Algorithmic trading is a term that is used very loosely to describe systematic trading. The term is often a catchphrase for any or all of the following: black-box trading, computer trading, automated trading, program trading, basket trading, enhanced execution and execution strategies. Simply put, algorithmic trading is rules-based trading. 
Trading algorithms automatically break up large orders into bite sizes and feed them directly into the market. But they can be tuned to execute almost any strategy. They can attempt to capture the average price over a day or to gain an edge by, for example, trading more heavily at the opening and close, when volume is high. 
 
An algorithm can be the trading strategy itself –- the rules that determine which market to trade and when to trade it. For example, a strategy that employs a set of technical indicators, such as Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) or On Balance Volume (OBV), is algorithmic. Such “strategy” algorithms are at the heart of most mechanical or black-box trading systems. 
But an algorithm can also be employed to determine how to execute an order; i.e., given the micro-structure and liquidity of a given market, what is the most effective way to execute an order so as to reduce market impact and slippage and therefore improve trading performance? An example of an “execution” algorithm is a Time Weighted Average Price (TWAP), which breaks up a large order and executes it evenly over a set period of time. Other popular execution algorithms include Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP), Volume Participation, Arrival Price and Pegging. Many brokers have developed customized algorithms that they provide to clients as a way of differentiating themselves and adding value.
The advent of electronic trading, first in the equity markets and more recently in the futures and foreign exchange markets, opened the door for algorithmic trading. By some accounts, up to 30% of the equities trading (as of 2007) is executed using algorithms. Algorithmic trading in futures and foreign exchanges is a growing phenomenon that helps explain the recent dramatic growth of volume in both asset classes.
==References==
 
Category:Trading Terms
Category:Definitions
Category:Algorithmic Trading
Alice Botis

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Alice Botis is the head of Latin American business development and the senior vice president of new sales enterprise services for Fidessa with responsibility for expanding the company's presence across the Americas and growing new business.
Botis is a member of the Securities Traders Association of New York.
== Background ==
Botis has been with Fidessa since 2003, working in sales and account management before becoming the head of Latin American business development. Prior to joining Fidessa, Botis was a managing director at NASDAQ for nearly two years. Botis was also a vice president at Citigroup for 10 years where she traded NASDAQ securities.
== John Lothian News Interview ==
Botis sat down with John Lothian News editor Jessica Titlebaum to discuss the high frequency trading environment in Latin America, how the MILA initiative (otherwise known as the Integrated Latin American Market) is impacting growth in the region and how the industry has changed for women in this global marketplace. Published Oct. 24, 2011.
== Education ==
Botis graduated from Long Island University with a degree in marketing management and a minor in economics. 
== Resources ==
*Q&A: Alice Botis of Fidessa on Latam Trading - Opportunities and Challenges 
*Exchange Linkages in Latin America 
*A Lesson from Abroad: Pre-trade Risk in Brazil 
== Five Minute Interview ==
*November 2012
== References ==	
Category:Fidessa Executives
Category:Fidessa
Alice Corporation

Alice Corporation is a company that promotes Alice Markets, a form of derivatives market. It has obtained patents on all its innovations worldwide, including in the United States.
== History ==
Alice Corporation was founded by Ian Shepherd in the early 1990s. It is partly owned by National Australia Bank.
Alice began offering its intellectual property for licensing in 2000. It reached out to offer CLS Bank International (CLS) a license in 2002, but both sides were unable to reach an agreement. In 2007, CLS filed a declaratory judgement against Alice.
== Products and Services ==
Alice has patents on electronic methods, systems and computer program products. The patents have priority dates between 1992 and 1995.
The company also offers Alice Contracts, a type of derivatives contract, on its Alice Market.
== Key People ==
*Ian Shepherd, Founder and Managing Director
== References ==