Kim Bang, Chief Executive Officer

A long-time financial technology executive, Kim Bang has a strong track record of driving innovation in the electronic trading space while managing growth and product diversification.  Mr. Bang was an original founding member of Bloomberg Tradebook, where he spent over 15 years, rising to President in 1999 and CEO in 2004.   During his tenure, Tradebook became one of the leading electronic execution platforms in the market, serving institutional investors globally with comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearance and settlement solutions across equities, futures, options and FX.

At Tradebook, Bang led a multitude of initiatives to bring new technologies and advancements to market. Among them were the development of the first institutional consolidated limit order book and outbound smart order sweeping technology in 1998; the launch of Powermatch, the Bloomberg electronic energy brokerage system, in 2000; the introduction in 2002 of a Commission Management Service featuring third-party Independent Research commission sharing agreements; and the establishment of the first centralized FX ECN for execution, clearing and settlement in 2007. Bang also drove the expansion of Bloomberg Tradebook to international markets and negotiated a number of partnerships to establish clearing relationships, introducing broker arrangements, and distribution of third-party technologies such as execution management systems and anonymous block trading execution venues.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Bang was President of Futech Capital Management, a hedge fund managing quantitative derivative trading strategies for institutional clients. Before founding Futech in 1993, he developed a European foreign exchange cross trading business for American International Group Trading Corp. From 1988-90, he traded fixed income derivatives for Commerzbank in Luxembourg.

Mr. Bang, lives in New Jersey and works out of the BondDesk New York office.

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