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2009年12月16日星期三

Saxo Bank - direct/ Saxo Bank A/S - Albert Maasland New Head of Saxo Bank´s Activities in Europe, Middle East and the U.S.

COPENHAGEN Saxo Bank has auspiciously assured its seek for a new affiliate of the bank´s Senior Executive Management. Albert Maasland joins the Copenhagen-based online investment case as the new European COO on 1 December 2007.

Albert Maasland joins Saxo Bank´s Senior Executive Management from Standard Chartered Bank, area he was Global Head of Business Development, Global Markets E-Commerce, for the accomplished two years.

Saxo Bank is already operating with an Asia-Pacific COO, Kevin Ashby, who is based in Singapore. As European COO, Albert Maasland will be the all-embracing arch and coordinator of all European, Middle East and US offices and regions. This agency that CEO of Saxo Bank Switzerland, Søren Mose, Executive Director Torben Kaaber in Copenhagen, Director Peter Klein in London as able-bodied as Director Kurt Carlsson in Marbella will address to Albert Maasland.

"We are actual admiring that Albert has acclimatized the position as European COO. He will be based in Copenhagen, but absorb a lot of time in our offices about Europe," says Lars Seier Christensen, CEO of Saxo Bank.

Maasland spent 11 years at Chase Manhattan Bank area he had a amount of Sales Management roles in Transaction Banking afore demography over as Head of FX Sales from 1989-94, a aeon during which Chase rose to become the No. 2 FX case in the industry (from 14th). After Chase Manhattan, Maasland spent one year at HSBC afore affective to Deutsche Bank in 1995. Maasland appear semi-retirement in 2000, and took a amount of directorships including Executive Director of Cognotec and IIR Plc, afore abiding to full-time cyberbanking in 2005 at Standard Charterted.

"It is harder to aggrandize the appulse Saxo Bank is authoritative in the banking casework industry and its approaching advance abeyant - and I am agog to be allotment of that acceptable team. I am aflame to be abutting Saxo Bank and to allowance ability their aggressive goals for the future," says Albert Maasland.

Kim Fournais who co-founded Saxo Bank with Lars Seier Christensen believes Albert Massland will be a abundant asset for the bank.

"Saxo Bank has body a apple chic Senior Executive Management aggregation over the accomplished 18 months and by bringing Albert on axle to arch all sales and account efforts in the broader European time zone, we accept brought in one of the a lot of accomplished and acknowledged players in our industry. We are assured that this is addition important footfall appear accomplishing the aggressive goals of Saxo Bank," CEO Kim Fournais comments.

Media enquiries:
Kasper Elbjorn on +45 30654300
Fleming Voetmann on +45 51595036
Team-CorporateCommunications@saxobank.com

About Saxo Bank A/S
Saxo Bank A/S is a avant-garde investment case specializing in online investments in all-embracing Capital Markets. Saxo Bank enables audience to barter currencies, shares, CFDs, futures, options and added derivatives, as able-bodied as accouterment portfolio administration via our online trading platform, SaxoTrader. SaxoTrader has been developed by Saxo Bank and is accessible to today´s broker anon through Saxo Bank or through one of our all-around partnerships, area it forms an basic allotment of their infrastructure. One of Saxo Bank´s cogent areas of business is White Labelling. This involves the bank´s online trading belvedere accepting customized and branded for added banking institutions and brokers. Saxo Bank has added than 85 White Label Partners and boasts bags of audience in over 177 countries. The bank´s website www.saxobank.com receives about 65,000 visitors every day. Saxo Bank currently employs about 1,200 advisers from 58 altered countries.

Saxo Bank has its address in Copenhagen, with operating offices in London, Geneva, Zürich, Singapore and Marbella. It aswell runs a adumbrative appointment in Beijing and an IT development centermost in St. Petersburg.

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www.saxobank.dk
www.saxobank.co.uk
www.synthesisbank.com
www.saxomarkets.com.sg
www.saxotrader.es
www.saxosoft.com

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Saxo Bank - direct/ Saxo Bank A/S - Saxo Bank Appoints New CFO

Saxo Bank boosts its all-embracing administration aggregation and circuit off a year of all-around amplification and administration application with the adjustment of a new Chief Financial Officer.

Howard Prince-Wright, CFO of multi-regional adhesive producer, Titan Cement Company SA ("Titan") joins Saxo Bank, the Copenhagen-based online investment bank, advertisement to CEOs and co-founders, Lars Seier Christensen and Kim Fournais.

"We are captivated to acceptable anyone of Howard´s ability and accomplished acceptability to Saxo Bank. We anticipate that with his all-encompassing all-embracing experience, not at atomic accepting CFO in big all-embracing listed companies, he will be a abundant asset to us as we abide what is for us, a actual agitative and affluent aeon of all-around expansion," says Kim Fournais.

Lars Seier Christensen adds that Prince-Wright´s adjustment will strengthen Saxo Bank´s efforts in architecture the new administration aggregation at a time if the case has launched several new offices calm with a host of new recruits.

"Howard alluringly adulation the able administration aggregation we accept complete during the endure 18 months and will accompany even added focus to the all-important across of tracking, barometer and optimizing all the banking apparatus of our added circuitous business," says Lars Seier Christensen.

He is assertive that Prince-Wright´s business accuracy will accord acerb to accretion and developing Saxo Bank´s business and partnerships above the globe. With this adjustment a acute aspect in Saxo Bank´s action avalanche into place.

Prince-Wright has been CFO of the Athens listed Titan accumulation back 2002. In his antecedent post, he was accepted for administering the company´s able bread-and-butter advance and all-embracing expansion, accretion the adopted broker base, accepting investment brand ratings from S&P and implementing all-embracing advertisement and accounting standards. He will accompany Saxo Bank during the aboriginal division of 2008.

"Saxo Bank is affective advanced from one abundant accomplishment to another, the challenges advanced are both agitative and thrilling, I attending advanced to accepting allotment of a aggregation that consistently delivers. International amplification and aggressive goals go duke in duke with a able banking and bread-and-butter growth. I acceptable these challenges," says Howard Prince-Wright who will crop up his new role from March 2008.

The adjustment of Howard Prince-Wright follows the adjustment of Albert Maasland, COO, able 1 December 2007, Rabbe Ekholm, CCO, able 1 May 2007, Michael Villi Møller, Global Head of Legal and Compliance, able 1 December 2006, Tobias Straessle, CIO and Head of IT, able 1 November 2006 as able-bodied as Kevin Ashby, Chairman and CEO of the bank´s Asia-Pacific subsidiary, Saxo Capital Markets Ltd in Singapore, able 1 September 2006.

Biography of Howard Prince-Wright

Howard Prince-Wright was CFO of Athens based and listed all-around adhesive ambassador Titan Cement Company from 2002 to date and oversaw an anniversary about-face of £1.5 billion in 2006 from amount operations in Greece, the United States, the Balkans and the Middle East. He has acquired start-up and baby business experience, through founding an on-line accumulation alternation solutions business which currently employs 36 agents and operates about Europe. From December 2001 to February 2002 Prince-Wright was CFO and amenable for about amphibian The Spirit Group, one of the UK´s better pub and restaurant conglomerates, above-mentioned to which he captivated the role as Burger King Vice President Finance and Business Support from 1997 to 1999. Among his abounding roles, Prince-Wright has aswell formed as Finance Director for a amount of top and mid-tier companies including: Grand Met, IDV Asia Pacific and IDV UK, Metaxa, and as an accounting administrator and accountant with Mobil Oil Corporation. Formerly accomplished as an accountant, Prince-Wright is a adolescent of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales.

About Saxo Bank A/S

Saxo Bank A/S is a avant-garde investment case specializing in online investments in all-embracing Capital Markets. Saxo Bank enables audience to barter currencies, shares, CFDs, futures, options and added derivatives, as able-bodied as accouterment portfolio administration via our online trading platform, SaxoTrader. SaxoTrader has been developed by Saxo Bank and is accessible to today´s broker anon through Saxo Bank or through one of our all-around partnerships, area it forms an basic allotment of their infrastructure. One of Saxo Bank´s cogent areas of business is White Labelling. This involves the bank´s online trading belvedere accepting customized and branded for added banking institutions and brokers. Saxo Bank has added than 100 White Label Partners and boasts bags of audience in over 177 countries. The bank´s website www.saxobank.com receives about 65,000 visitors every day. Saxo Bank currently employs about 1,200 advisers from 58 altered countries.

Saxo Bank has its address in Copenhagen, with operating offices in London, Geneva, Zürich, Singapore and Marbella. It aswell runs a adumbrative appointment in Beijing and an IT development centre in St. Petersburg.

www.saxobank.com
www.saxobank.dk
www.saxobank.co.uk
www.synthesisbank.com
www.saxomarkets.com.sg
www.saxotrader.es
www.saxosoft.com

Media enquiries:

Kate Hage on +44 (0) 2071512025
Kasper Elbjorn on +45 30654300
Team-CorporateCommunications@saxobank.com

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SaxoBank A/S - New Executive Director to Strengthen Saxo Bank´s Operations in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas

COPENHAGEN Henrik Vad has been called to a new position as Executive Director, and Deputy Head for Saxo Bank´s operations in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Previously CEO of SkandiaBanken A/S, Henrik Vad will be advertisement to Albert Maasland, Senior Executive Director and Regional Head. As arch of Strategic Operations, Henrik Vad will be amenable for allowance to drive and advance the business through addition and streamlining artefact development, solidifying beheading processes and acceptable cantankerous cartography allocation amid Saxo Bank´s accretion all-around operations.

With his all-encompassing acquaintance in internet cyberbanking and abundant ability of a advanced ambit of articles from his years at SkandiaBanken, one of Scandinavia´s best accepted abounding account Internet banks, Henrik Vad has abundant to accord to the connected advance of Saxo Bank, a all-around baton in online trading and investment services.

"With Henrik Vad on board, we accept accumulated a administration aggregation that is accessible to crop on the tasks and challenges we will be adverse with active our advance action over the next few years," says Albert Maasland. "An accomplished banker, Henrik Vad has a accurate clue almanac and applied ability of our industry that will advice us to abide to abound our business at top bifold chiffre advance ante for the advancing years. He will be active in ensuring able beheading of our action and allegorical our adolescent talents appear accomplishing our advance objectives."

Understanding of the aggressive ambiance in online trading and investment and ensuring a bland beheading action will, according to Maasland, be some of Henrik Vad´s key responsibilities. With added than 20 years of acquaintance in the industry and his clue almanac of achievements in managing a advanced array of cyberbanking operations, Henrik Vad will play an important role in creating the all-important drive and administration in Saxo Bank´s approaching growth.

"I accept carefully followed Saxo Bank´s absorbing acceleration as a above amateur in the industry and been an adherent from the sidelines for years," says Henrik Vad. "I feel advantageous that I can now see things from the central and accomplish my own addition to the added advance and success of a case that has become a trailblazer and trendsetter for an absolute industry."

Prior to his career in SkandiaBanken, Henrik Vad was CEO of Din Bank A/S and A Senior Vice President of Danske Bank A/S in allegation of Domestic and International Equities Department and the Future and Options operation.

Kind regards,

Saxo Bank A/S

Media inquiries:

Kasper Elbjørn, Corporate Communications, Saxo Bank A/S
Tel: +45 30 65 43 00
kel@saxobank.com

About Saxo Bank A/S

Saxo Bank A/S is a all-around investment case specializing in online investments in all-embracing Capital Markets. Saxo Bank enables audience to barter currencies, shares, CFDs, futures, options and added derivatives, as able-bodied as accouterment portfolio administration via our online trading platform, SaxoTrader. SaxoTrader has been developed by Saxo Bank and is accessible to today´s broker anon through Saxo Bank or through one of our all-around partnerships, area it forms an basic allotment of their infrastructure. One of Saxo Bank´s cogent areas of business is White Labelling. This involves the bank´s online trading belvedere accepting customized and branded for added banking institutions and brokers. Saxo Bank has added than 100 White Label Partners and boasts bags of audience in over 177 countries. The bank´s website www.saxobank.com receives about 65,000 visitors every day. Saxo Bank currently employs about 1,300 advisers from 58 altered countries.

Saxo Bank has its address in Copenhagen, with offices in London, Geneva, Zürich, Singapore and Marbella. It aswell runs a adumbrative appointment in Beijing and an IT development centre in St. Petersburg.

www.saxobank.com
www.saxobank.ch
www.saxobank.dk
www.saxobank.co.uk
www.saxomarkets.com.sg
www.saxotrader.es
www.saxosoft.com

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Saxo Bank A/S - Saxo Bank A/S - World TopInvestor Winner Easily Beats Performance of Hedge Funds

Haochen Hu, a acclimatized broker from Hong Kong, won this year´s World TopInvestor antagonism with assets of about 785% over 12 months.

London - The champ of World TopInvestor Competition 2007-08, Haochen Hu, has outperformed the world´s arch barrier funds with assets of about 785% over the antagonism period. The antagonism is a live, absolute money, basic markets trading antagonism abiding for a abounding year. The cost for the top broker is the administration of a armamentarium with an investment amount of USD 250,000 sponsored by Saxo Bank, a all-around baton in online trading and investment services.

The champ of the 2007-08 antagonism was Haochen Hu, who led a able acreage including Guo Hanqui with a net accretion of 630%, Julian Szkirpan from the United States with 555% as able-bodied as Hungarian investors György Doleschall with a 315% accretion and Tamás Czajner with 135%.

"Losing money is bad, but it is abundant worse if you don´t apperceive why you lost. I accept traded online for eight years and you have to abstraction and be accustomed with the artefact you ambition to advance in. My action was simple. I focused on bill trading and acclimated the college advantage if I acquainted the adventitious was there," commented Hu.

Surprised with the end aftereffect himself, Hu´s abreast 785% accretion is extraordinary. According to Hedge Fund Research Inc. indices, a alternation of benchmarks advised to reflect barrier armamentarium industry achievement by amalgam appropriately abounding composites of basic funds, the abounding basis was up 10.02% in 2007. Research from Morningstar, a arch provider of absolute investment research, indicates the boilerplate acknowledgment was 12.5%.

"The World TopInvestor antagonism is a way to body acceptance of your skills. You attempt adjoin traders from all over the world, trading on the aforementioned belvedere while application any and all of the instruments available. This year´s participants were apple alliance investors, able to accomplish a accumulation in a falling market, and calmly assault able traders," said Christian Lund Hammer, Global Head of Partner Marketing from Saxo Bank.

Christian Lund Hammer emphasises the winners had a absolute compassionate of how the bazaar works and abundant aptitude to barter in an added airy market.

"One of the better changes throughout 2007 was the access in animation and appropriately a addition of ranges. To account from that, you charge abilities in trading Forex, Commodities, CFDs and Futures. This year´s winners had those skills," commented Christian Lund Hammer.

Next year´s World TopInvestor Competition is accessible to all entrants accommodating to accessible an anniversary with any Broker sponsor. Among this year´s sponsors of the World TopInvestor antagonism were several arch online investment banks and brokers from all over the apple including: Saxo Bank, Commodity Broking Services, BenchMark Finance, Cambiste, Finexo, Buda-Cash Brókerház, TMS Brokers, Banco Best, Poteza BPD, Dif Broker and RCG FX Trader.

Media Inquiries

Kasper Elbjørn, Saxo Bank Corporate Communications
Tel.:+45-3065-4300

Christian Lund Hammer, Saxo Bank Global Marketing
Tel.: +45-5159-5025

About World TopInvestor

www.worldtopinvestor.com/

About Saxo Bank A/S

Saxo Bank A/S is a all-around investment case specializing in online investments in all-embracing Capital Markets. Saxo Bank enables audience to barter currencies, shares, CFDs, futures, options and added derivatives, as able-bodied as accouterment portfolio administration via our online trading platform, SaxoTrader. SaxoTrader has been developed by Saxo Bank and is accessible to today´s broker anon through Saxo Bank or through one of our all-around partnerships, area it forms an basic allotment of their infrastructure. One of Saxo Bank´s cogent areas of business is White Labelling. This involves the bank´s online trading belvedere accepting customized and branded for added banking institutions and brokers. Saxo Bank has added than 100 White Label Partners and boasts bags of audience in over 177 countries. Saxo Bank currently employs about 1,300 advisers from 58 altered countries. Saxo Bank has its address in Copenhagen, with offices in London, Geneva, Zürich, Singapore and Marbella. It aswell runs a adumbrative appointment in Beijing and an IT development centre in St. Petersburg.

www.saxobank.com
www.saxobank.ch
www.saxobank.dk
www.saxobank.co.uk
www.saxomarkets.com.sg
www.saxotrader.es
www.saxosoft.com

Trading Floor - Trading Floor adds video agreeable from Saxo Banks aggregation of experts

Trading Floor, the forex, disinterestedness and bolt blog accounting and run by Saxo Bank’s action team, is now abacus approved video comments throughout the European trading session.

The comments on macroeconomic indicators, banking issues and balance releases will accompaniment the Daily Trading Stance video appear every morning and the account forex options (www.tradingfloor.com/EN/Pages/Trading_commentary.aspx ) and disinterestedness amend appear every Friday.

Videos are recorded in the flat on the Saxo Bank trading floor, account afterwards the account is released. Saxo Bank's arch economist, David Karsbol, said: "The advantage of video is that it fills in the gap amid advertisement the account and the added abundant analysis addendum we publish.

He added: "We animadversion on macroeconomic indicators or balance or axial case decisions in a way that is fast, but aswell allows us to accord added detail in a way that allows our blog visitors to get to apperceive us a little better."

Trading Floor has been active back May 2009 and appearance able annotation starting every morning with The Daily Trading Stance that Saxo Bank’s strategists deliver to audience giving a briefing of the capital capacity of the day in FX, equities, FX options and commodities.

The annotation is able by David Karsbøl, Equity Strategist Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg and forex able John Hardy. Commodities ability is provided by Ole S Hansen and Alan Plaughmann. Also commenting are Market Strategist Mads Koefoed and Research Analyst Robin Bagger-Sjöbäck.

The Daily Trading Stance, circadian commentaries and Weekly Forex and Equities Update are accessible on the Trading Floor web website and on Trading Floor’s committed YouTube channel.

About Trading Floor:
Trading Floor is run by Saxo Bank - a all-around investment case specialising in online trading and investment above the all-embracing banking markets. Trading Floor provides up to date forex account and bazaar abode analysis.

About Saxo Bank
Saxo Bank is an online trading and investment specialist, enabling forex trading (www.tradingfloor.com ) for clients, CFD trading (www.tradingfloor.com/EN/Pages/Market_Analysis.aspx ), stocks, futures trading (www.tradingfloor.com/EN/Pages/Financial_News.aspx ), options and added derivatives, as able-bodied as accouterment portfolio administration via SaxoWebTrader and SaxoTrader, the arch online trading platforms. SaxoTrader is accessible anon through Saxo Bank or through one of the Bank's all-around partners. White Labelling is a cogent business across for Saxo Bank, and involves the Bank's online trading belvedere accepting customised and branded for added banking institutions and brokers. Saxo Bank has added than 120 White Label Partners and boasts bags of audience in over 180 countries. Saxo Bank is headquartered in Copenhagen with offices in Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK and the United Arab Emirates.

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