Zakria Hussain has left Crédit Agricole, where he was most recently global head of eFX spot trading, to join Nomura Group’s digital assets subsidiary Laser Digital as head of OTC trading.
He has also previously served as executive director, eFX algorithmic analyst at Crédit Agricole.
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Prior to that, Hussain spent three and a half years at Standard Chartered Bank, having served as a quant analyst before being promoted to director and eFX risk trader.
He also has experience working across European futures indices – FESX, FDAX and FCE whilst working as a quantitative analyst at Allston Trading.
News of Laser Digital’s launch came in May 2022, developed in order to improve time-to-market and speed of innovation while operating as a wholly segregated entity with its own resources and capital.