SmartPool appoints Lee Hodgkinson as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective from 1 May 2009.
Lee Hodgkinson is currently CEO of SWX Europe and a member of the Management Board of SIX Swiss Exchange and SWX Group, a position he has held since December 2006. He was Director of Market Operations in the five years prior to this.
Lee brings valuable experience, expertise and knowledge of European and international markets and their customers to his role and is ideal to lead the development of SmartPool, says Yvette Roozenbeek, acting CEO of SmartPool and head of Business Development, European cash markets, NYSE Euronext.
The introduction of MiFID was intended specifically to liberalise the European trading landscape, says Lee Hodgkinson. NYSE Euronext has been at the forefront of change in this new regulatory environment, introducing highly-competitive initiatives such as SmartPool, therefore expanding its trading offering to include a broad range of execution services for its customers.
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