Jan Ivar Strømme

Jan Strømme, has extensive experience in e-FX sales / BisDev, liquidity provision and trading, serving at major FX exchanges, DNB Bank, GSA Capital and XTX Markets (EBS/ICAP, ThomsonReuters/FXall), DNB (Den Norske Bank) and hedgefunds, at the very cutting edge of trading solutions, services and technology for the banking and hedge fund industry. Strømme started his career in oil/shipping brokerage, before joining Reuters Transaction Services with remit for Norway and Iceland, later joining EBS in charge of Nordic and Nordic clients globally. Strømme joined his largest client, DNB, to set up one of the first FX HFT desks in 2005, established with developers and quants, creating a pioneering algo-desk within DNB. Strømme also founded a fintech firm specialising in transaction and dealing software solutions for chats and instant messaging (BBG Messaging, Reuters Messaging, MSN etc), utilizing Extended Reg Expressions. Later sold to partnering VC. Strømme had sole global responsibility for Direct Disclosed business from the beginning of the award winning GSA Capital FX team until Strømme exited XTX Markets in the summer of 2017, when he established Alphaplate, a prop trading crypto entity, with 4 other partners (Ex Celeritas/Bluefin Full Stack developer, previous CEO of Renaissance Technologies Europe and 2 sell-side FX market makers).