FNG has learned that longtime CMC Markets executive Neil Emmerson has left to join Retail FX and CFDs broker Eightcap, as Eightcap’s new Head of UK Trading Risk.
Neil Emmerson, who is based in London, had spent the past ten-plus years at CMC, beginning as Head of Volatility in 2015, before being named Quant Trading Manager on CMC’s Indices, Commodities and Cryptocurrency Desk in 2019. He had also previously worked at IG Group.
Eightcap is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, and operates licensed subsidiaries in its home country as well as in Cyprus (Eightcap EU Ltd), the UK (Eightcap Group Ltd), and the UAE, in addition to offshore operations in The Bahamas. The company is controlled by its Chairman (and former CEO) Joel Murphy, and Eightcap’s lead analyst Joe Jeffriess.
