Icap, the world's leading interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services, today announces the appointment of Richard Vine as head of Financial Futures and Options broking for Asia Pacific (Apac), based in Singapore.
Vine will report to Gary Pettit, global head of Financial Futures and Options and on a regional basis to Anthony Warner, CEO of Singapore. He has worked in the futures industry for 25 years, both on the buy and sell side in the UK, USA and most recently Asia. Vine joins from RBS Asia where he was mostly recently head of APAC Futures. He was previously at MAN Financial and earlier in his career co-founded KYTE Broking, a successful independent brokerage businesses on LIFFE.
Gary Pettit said: "The appointment of Richard is a fantastic addition to our team and yet another step in achieving our ambition of becoming the premier global futures execution broker. Asia is crucial to the development of our business I am delighted that Richard has joined us to continue the momentum of our growth globally."