About
We build the foreign exchange trading technology solutions that truly innovate the marketBut don’t take our word for it. From Asian Private Banker to the Stevie Awards, and from the WSL Awards to the Hedge Fund Awards, BidFX, in conjunction with former parent company, Trading Screen, has been the recipient of numerous FX and technology honours from many prestigious institutions and industry award bodies.
200+ of the world’s leading banks, asset
managers, corporates and hedge funds trust us to be their dedicated FX technology partner
At BidFX, we enable our clients to trade OTC and listed FX products, achieve improved execution and significantly reduce operational costs through a customer-centric, agile, secure platform.
We build the FX trading technology solutions of tomorrow so you can trade better, faster and smarter.
Discover our story
BidFX was founded in 2017 by Trading Screen. We are headquartered in London, with additional offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Sydney, and Milan. The company is now a subsidiary of Singapore Exchange (SGX), the globally recognised risk management and clearing organization and Asia’s leading securities and derivatives market infrastructure.
what is bidFX
BidFX is built upon three interconnected pillars
We designed BidFX to be the turnkey, single sign-on FX trading solution that the market demands. To achieve this, our platform combines three distinct yet interlinked pillars.
1. A world-class team of expert professionals
Diverse, dynamic and best-in-class experts in their own fields, from our developers to technology support, and from dedicated account representatives to customer service.
2. Global technology solutions provision
As well as providing our technology solutions to over 100 of the world’s leading entities in FX trading, BidFX is SOC2-certified, the external audit report that recognizes five trust principles in security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
3. An agile, customer-focused, secure platform
As a subsidiary of Singapore Exchange (SGX), BidFX is positioned to develop and deliver highly customized client solutions. We partner and integrate with leading providers in OMS and infrastructure service providers as and where necessary to deliver a highly specialized, bespoke platform solution to every customer, according to their exact needs.
our achievements
Awards
get to know us
Team Management
Jean-Philippe Malé
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Alan Dweck
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Paul Sweeny
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Roger Lee
HEAD OF SALES, EMEA
Wai Kin Chan
HEAD OF ASIA PACIFIC
Scott Gold
HEAD OF SALES, AMERICAS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Jean-Philippe Malé
Jean-Philippe is the CEO of BidFX, Singapore Exchange’s subsidiary focused on providing solutions to the Foreign Exchange market.
Prior to this, Jean-Philippe was Regional Manager EMEA at TradingScreen and CEO of Galaxy, TradingScreen’s Multilateral Trading Facility focusing on the European bond market.
From 2004 to 2011, he was based in London and New York where he served as Global Head of Products. He worked directly with upper-level management to coordinate business development efforts and implement the first multi-asset class Execution Management System.
Jean-Philippe holds a Bachelor of Science in finance and computer engineering from Institut d’Informatique d’Entreprise and a Master’s in project management from Université du Québec in 2003.
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Alan Dweck
Alan has over 25 years’ experience in international financial markets, trading, business systems and associated technology. Alan was originally a trader and broker in London before spending 12 years at Bloomberg, where he helped build their successful FX trading and analytic platform FXGO. Alan is the original inventor on 2 registered patents that relate to their FX trading platform.
In recent years, Alan has led the strategy, sales, design, build and integration of several electronic trading platforms. Alan was the AsiaPac Head of OTC at TradingScreen before moving to the COO role.
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Paul Sweeny
Paul is the Chief Technology Officer of BidFX. He has 30 years of experience delivering high performance software, with 20 years building electronic trading systems.
Paul specialises in designing the distributed systems, protocols and frameworks that form the backbone of global trading platforms. In 16 years with TradingScreen he led the London development group and was responsible for architecting much of the back-end, everything from real-time price feeds, exchange connectivity, FIX connectivity, historical tick data, bespoke peer-to-peer messaging and security systems.
Previously, Paul developed trading systems at Credit Suisse and Nomura. He also served nine years in the defence industry building weapon simulations and war games.
Paul self taught machine code at school, produced his first commercial software at age sixteen and used the royalties to fund his Computer Science degree at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
HEAD OF SALES, EMEA
Roger Lee
Roger is the Head of Sales for EMEA at BidFX. Roger was formerly the Head of Hedge Fund Sales (EMEA) at TradingScreen. Prior to joining TradingScreen, Roger spent his career at a series of investment banks starting at Deutsche Bank running the middle office functions of various credit derivative trading desks before moving onto Salomon Brothers where he focused 5 years on the birth and growth of Salomon’s Rates & Credit electronic distribution. He spent a further 6 years at Citibank where he worked for the Global Head of eFX Sales and was responsible for Citi’s European eFX Sales capability across banks, hedge funds & asset managers.
Roger studied at Dulwich College, followed by further education at Queen Mary’s, University of London, majoring in modern languages.
HEAD OF ASIA PACIFIC
Wai Kin Chan
Wai Kin is the Head of Asia Pacific of BidFX, Singapore Exchange’s subsidiary focused on providing solutions to the foreign exchange market. He is responsible for sales team leadership, driving sales growth in the region as well as general management responsibilities across APAC.
Prior to BidFX, Wai Kin was the Head of Asia Pacific Distribution for XTX Markets, a leading quantitative non-bank market maker. He has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience, which began when he started his career at JPMorgan/Guaranty Trust Global Markets FICC as a developer. Next, he moved to Barclays Capital to provide cross-product Futures & Options, Equities and FICC development, client services and support.
Wai Kin then joined Morgan Stanley as the Head of FICC eCommerce Sales to run their electronic FX business for Asia Pacific, where his expanded role covered FICC and oversight into eFX trading & sales, FX Prime Brokerage, and voice sales into banks, corporates and intermediaries for the whole Asia Pacific region.
Wai Kin is an advocate of cultural & environmental awareness through film, technology, sports and travel. He founded a regional bicycle related non-profit organisation to promote the development of youth in sports at the local grassroots community level.
HEAD OF SALES, AMERICAS
Scott Gold
Scott is Head of Sales for the Americas and has been with BidFX since the initial launch.
Scott started his career at Fidessa where he covered clients on listed asset classes including futures, equities and options. From there, he spent over 3 years at BidFX’s parent company, TradingScreen, where he was Head of the Account Management team in NY before transitioning into a Sales role in his move to BidFX. Scott has over 10 years of e-trading experience across many asset classes and has seen the industry grow and change over that time.
In his free time, Scott plays basketball and golf and in the winter he enjoys both skiing and snowboarding. In addition, Scott is an avid sports fan of the local New York teams. Scott holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.