Fortex revolutionized trading beginning in 1997, as the first independent, multi-asset trading platform to provide clients with direct, fair access to markets.

Since then, the company has grown organically to become the leading FX trading platform with $12 billion in currency trades and 500,000 tickets a day for tens of thousands of traders around the world.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Fortex taps the Valley’s culture of innovation, leading engineering talent, and technology advances to continue delivering industry firsts. With deep roots on Wall Street, Fortex intimately understands the needs of currency traders, broker-dealers, and markets. And with a network footprint in Asia, Fortex helps fuel global trading.

Soon after the Fortex platform was launched, it was processing $3 billion in currency trades per day. Since then, the company has consistently added new capabilities to help its clients succeed—from middleware, APIs, and a rich array of trading consultation, analysis, and customization services to elegant end-user applications for desktop, web, or mobile trading.

Today, traders, broker dealers, liquidity providers, money managers, banks, hedge funds, and investors around the world rely on Fortex to accelerate trade execution and support sophisticated trading strategies. The most successful currency trading firms, including Interbank FX, Pepperstone, Advanced Markets, Sun Hong Kai Financial, Macquarie Bank, and others have built their FX businesses on the Fortex platform.

Fortex is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California with offices in New York and Hong Kong. The company is privately held.

“The way I was introduced to Fortex was via a major banking institution. They stated ‘we do several hundred thousand transactions a day with Fortex and never have any issues.’ What can you say about that?”
Anthony Brocco
Founder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Markets
Clients
Fortex clients have at least one thing in common: success. They share a common commitment to helping their customers succeed, and in the process, have transformed the FX trading landscape. We are proud to work with such innovative clients.

In Their Own Words

On Innovation


“The Fortex team helped us launch new trading applications, resulting in more than $80 billion per month in trading volume with best-in-class execution and a great customer experience.”
Todd Crosland
Founder and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interbank FX
“To accommodate many different clients needs, Fortex has gone over and above to develop custom set ups to handle these requests. They even increased system capacity to handle 15,000+ concurrent tickets—creating a solution for one of my accounts.”
Albert Galera
Chief Operating Officer, Tier1FX

On Reliability


“Fortex builds the technology that operates markets. A lot of players come and go, but Fortex has stood the test of time with the best quality of service possible. Fortex is the team that serious institutions go to when they need it done right.”
Owen Kerr
Chief Executive Officer, Pepperstone
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2014
“Having used eight different platform technologies in 12 years of running my firm, I have never used a more stable, efficient piece of technology. No matter how you look at it, Fortex has performed like no other. We’ve had nearly 100% up time. Our 100% agency model requires minimal “risk” or exposure and I cannot recall a single time when we had exposure or trades unconfirmed that would leave us unmatched.”
Anthony Brocco
Founder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Markets
 

On Growth


“Fortex has been a significant part in the success of Interbank FX, from our founding in 2001 and growing into a world leader in retail foreign exchange trading. The Fortex platform and Bridge OMX let us access money center banks around the world and provide best-in-class execution. Fortex helped us grow from a few traders to presence in more than 140 countries and $80 billion per month in trading volume. I highly recommend Fortex for its expertise and professionalism."
Todd Crosland
Founder, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interbank FX

On Performance


"The Fortex platform and Bridge OMX have enabled our trades to be processed faster, cleaner, and in sizes and numbers that far exceed any other platform I have used.”
Anthony Brocco
Founder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Markets

On Customer Service


“Fortex has gone over and above to help us customize our services. A knowledgeable engineer has answered every phone call we’ve made, and service is fast and efficient. With each passing year, the partnership and relationship reaches an even a higher level of comfort and satisfaction.”
Albert Galera
Chief Operating Officer, Tier1FX
Management Team

Daniel Z. Chen

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder

With expertise in a broad range of financial markets and technologies, Daniel is responsible for Fortex’s product strategies, execution, operation, and business development. His expertise in high-frequency, low-latency technology and market microstructure makes him a trusted source in the field of quantitative and algorithmic trading. Prior to Fortex, Daniel co-founded and bootstrapped the highly successful Millennium Exchange, an early pioneer in electronic trading technology for equities and options. Millennium Exchange was acquired by an investment syndicate. Daniel started his career at Goldman Sachs in New York, specializing in the areas of trading and principal investment of complex structured products and distressed assets. He also participated in the development of large-scale trading and analytics systems that contributed to Goldman Sachs’ competitive trading success. He graduated from New York University with distinguished honors in Computer Science and Economics.

Jay Zhan

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

Jay is a widely recognized expert in the development of industry-leading financial trading systems. He specializes in combining technology innovation and in-depth business insight to create pioneering solutions. Jay is responsible for the product architecture and technical solutions that underpin the Fortex platform and strategy. As co-founder of Millennium Exchange, Jay was chief architect of its highly successful trading platforms. His prior experience also includes positions with First Manhattan Consulting Group, where he was instrumental in designing large-scale banking systems for major U.S. money center banks and Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group’s IT practice. Jay earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in Computer Science summa cum laude, with Phi Beta Kappa and the department’s highest honors.

Careers
Fortex has led a major revolution in global currency and futures trading by providing fair, impartial direct access to global liquidity pools. Leading investment, brokerage, banking, trading, and other financial services companies use our world-class solutions. We are always looking for talented, hard-working, and creative individuals to join our team.

If you thrive on innovation and a dynamic, team environment, you’ll have opportunities to work with talented developers and high-energy business executives in an exciting industry. Fortex employees are dedicated to technology leadership and client care. Our reputation for outstanding client care is hard-earned and something we prize as a company. We enjoy a unique workplace culture in which every individual is respected and has the freedom—as well as the responsibility—to create solutions that benefit our clients and Fortex.

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About Fortex
Fortex has led innovation in the e-trading industry for 26 years. We have led a major revolution in global currency and futures trading by providing fair, impartial direct access to global liquidity pools. Leading investment, brokerage, banking, trading, and other financial services companies use our world-class solutions. We are always looking for talented, hard-working, and creative individuals to join our team.

Job Description
Role: VP of Business Development - MENA Region Reports to: Sales Administration Location: MENA Region, Remote or on-site Full time Fortex is looking for a VP of Business Development who will be responsible for maintaining great customer relations and strategically developing the key accounts into larger revenue streams. The role is to generate, develop and close business opportunities for the company. The person will have the knowledge, understanding and a wide network within the FX/CFD markets and be responsible for proactive sales of Fortex’s full product portfolio within and beyond their network.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain healthy business relationships with the customer company and its key decision-makers
  • Develop and lead the customer acquisition strategy
  • Onboard, maintain and develop key accounts
  • Using their industry knowledge to help refine the sales process for the platform
  • Travel to meet with clients globally and use their industry knowledge to help refine and enhance sales, product and account management processes
  • Generate new opportunities with existing customers, pitch and present Fortex products and conduct client demos
  • Negotiate pricing with clients and manage the up-sale process to contract completion
  • Report account performance and up-sale activities results

 

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience in customer-facing positions preferably in the Fintech area
  • Must have an existing network within the industry
  • Proven team leader and driver of corporate culture with impeccable work ethic and professionalism
  • Experience in the OTC market

 

To apply for this position, email your resume in PDF format to Careers@Fortex.com.

How to Apply

To apply for a position, please send an introduction email and PDF of your CV/resume to careers@fortex.com.

We do not accept telephone inquiries.

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