TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, today announced the opening of its new office in New York, staffed by Sean Murphy, Bo-Yun Liu and Khagay Nagdimov, who have joined the firm.
Sean Murphy joined as Senior Sales Executive to lead North American new business. Sean was an integral part of the management team that brought BrokerTec from being a concept to being the dominant platform in the U.S. Treasury marketplace, culminating in the sale to CME Group in 2018. At BrokerTec his mandate included leading a global sales team of 20 people located in Asia, Europe, and North America. Since 2018, Sean has worked at Dealerweb and on Bank consulting engagements.
Bo-Yun Liu joined as Pre-Sales Engineer to lead Client Architecture Solutioning globally. Bo is an ex-US Rates Trader with over a decade of experience in Fixed Income markets, in roles including Trading, Technology, and Product Management, and with Institutions ranging from O/EMS Vendors, Interdealer Brokers, Sell-side Banks and Fintechs. As a Pre-Sales Engineer, Bo engages with TransFICC clients in Product Architecture, Tech Strategy and Market Structure to define product fit and roadmap.
Khagay Nagdimov joined as Pre-Sales Engineer. Khagay comes from a software engineering background in the financial industry. He started his career at TD Securities building software for fixed income teams. He then moved to FinTech startup dv01 rising to be a technology lead building out APIs, microservices, ETL pipelines, and managing a team of developers for analytics on asset backed securities. He is a CFA Level 3 candidate, with strong technical knowledge and business domain experience.
“With six North American clients and a presence in the New York and Chicago data centres, it is important for TransFICC to have a US office,” said Steve Toland, co-Founder of TransFICC. ”I am delighted to welcome Sean, Bo-Yun and Khagay to our team, who all bring extensive experience and senior industry relationships, which will help TransFICC to engage with new clients in the Americas.”
TransFICC provides technology which improves access and automation in Fixed Income, resolving the issue of market fragmentation and delivering workflow efficiencies to banks and asset managers globally. It provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting a variety of workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps.