smartTrade

Our DNA

A leading SaaS provider to shape your business strategy

smartTrade Technologies is a global provider of multi-asset electronic trading and payments platforms. Headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, where the core of its research and development center is situated, smartTrade has subsidiaries in London, Paris, Geneva, Istanbul, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, and Singapore.
We contribute to the growth of our customers’ electronic trading and payments business through our cost-efficient, technologically advanced, secure, private end-to-end SaaS solutions.

Meet our Executive Team

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David ensures that smartTrade’s teams are organized to offer our clients the best possible service. Having previously held the role of CTO, he understands the importance of aligning the technology team with the sales strategy to ensure client satisfaction.

David Vincent
CEO & Co-Founder
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Renaud is leading the company's financial strategy, operational support functions, and promoting collaboration across departments, with a focus on Compliance, Performance Enhancement, and Controls.

Renaud Kerspern
COO Performance & CFO
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Elise oversees the management of Human Resources. Her team is key in supporting our business strategy and implementing appropriate transformations in both a local and global context.

Elise Van Der Schans
Chief Human Resources Officer
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As Chief Operating Officer, Offerings and Solutions, Emmanuel leads the strategy for smartTrade’s global offerings, ensuring that our diverse portfolio functions as a cohesive, client-centric engine. By bridging the gap between our Product Business Groups, commercial teams, and financial frameworks, he drives the structural alignment necessary to build scalable, market-leading solutions. His focus is on transforming complex product capabilities into clear, high-impact value for our clients while maintaining the agility and operational discipline that smartTrade is known for.

Emmanuel Lorge
Chief Operating Officer, Offerings & Solutions
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Thibault leads the technology operations, product strategy, delivery, and support of the Trading Product Business Group providing financial institutions with full-fledged end-to-end trading systems to serve their clients and access market liquidity.

Thibault Joly
Managing Director Trading Product Business Group
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As Managing Director of the Product Business Group, Patrick leads operations for Commercial Banking & Payments. He drives technology strategy, product development, and service delivery, ensuring banks can efficiently provide international FX payments and cash management solutions to commercial, SMB, and retail clients.

Patrick Chan
Managing Director Commercial Banking & Payment Product Business Group
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As Managing Director of the Platforms Product Business Group, Eric spearheads the delivery of customized software solutions, overseeing dedicated development and support teams to transform financial institutions' business requirements into advanced trading systems, elevating their market presence and client engagement.

Eric Deshayes
Managing Director Platforms Product Business Group
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Lara ensures the development and implementation of projects and processes that align with smartTrade's strategic goals. She is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and overseeing all strategic operations within the organization, helping the company increase efficiency and improve planning.

Lara Michel
Vice President of Strategic Operations
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Renaud ensures that the organization, across all departments, conducts its business processes in compliance with laws and regulations, professional and international standards, and accepted business practices. This includes, but is not limited to, cyber-security or SOC2-like audits.

Renaud Lebrun
Chief Information & Risk Officer
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Because protecting our customers' data is part of our DNA, Jean-Louis' role, and his passion, is to offer them secure end-to-end environments, enabling them to achieve their business objectives with confidence.

Jean-Louis To
Chief Information Security Officer & Managing Director of Cloud & Network
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Remy leads smartTrade's infrastructure team. His focus is ensuring our clients and staff get the most secure, fast and reliable infrastructure to support their business.

Remy Falco
Global Head of Infrastructure
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Christophe leads smartTrade’s global commercial strategy, driving market expansion and strengthening client relationships. With deep experience in fintech and international sales, he brings a strategic, client-focused approach to ensure our solutions meet evolving needs worldwide.

Christophe Montane
Chief Revenue Officer
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Stephen Helm
Managing Director Global Account Management
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Callum Jefcoate
Managing Director FXD Product Business Group

smartTrade’s in-house hosted solutions support foreign exchange, fixed income, crypto and derivatives. With connectivity to 130+ liquidity providers, enabling tailored aggregation, smart execution, risk management, order management, analytics, payments and multi-channel distribution.

smartTrade supports a variety of regulated and un-regulated Financial Institutions. 

Announcement

smartTrade has acquired kACE.

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