The new office will enable Tbricks to support its growing client base in the United States and Canada.

Tbricks offers groundbreaking technology to satisfy ambitious proprietary trading professionals. Tbricks provides unprecedented scalability and unmatched performance, and has been designed for strategy based trading as well as computer-aided manual trading.

Joshua Hodge joins Tbricks from Point Carbon (now part of Thomson Reuters) where as the firm's first employee in North America, he was instrumental in building the company's market-leading trading analytics business in the United States and Canada. Prior to Point Carbon, Joshua led Actant's North American business where he oversaw the development of the firm's US client base from first customer through to market leadership within the North American equity-options market making technology space.

"We are pleased to announce that Joshua Hodge has joined Tbricks as a Managing Director, based in our New York office," said Urs Rutschmann, COO of Tbricks. "Joshua has an extraordinary track record of providing clients with innovative, cutting edge trading solutions and a thorough understanding of the high frequency low latency trading environment."

Effective immediately, Tbricks' New York office will focus on the specific needs of North American-based trading firms, proprietary trading desks and hedge funds.

Jonas Hansbo, CEO of Tbricks, says: "We are very excited to be expanding our presence in North America. We are encouraged by the early demand for our products in the United States and our New York office will enable us to better serve this demand whilst making our technology more accessible to high frequency traders throughout North America."

Tbricks offers comprehensive coverage of key European and North American markets, allowing its clients to leverage its fast and modern trading system architecture for their proprietary trading strategies.