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Adaptive Appoints Fergus Keenan as Chief Strategy Officer

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Specialist global electronic trading consultancy Adaptive Financial Consulting, has appointed Fergus Keenan as its Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for implementing the firm’s overarching business vision and strategy. Based in New York, Keenan will be help to drive Adaptive’s global growth as the business expands its client base, delivering proprietary trading solutions across asset classes for leading buy and sell-side firms – from delivering trading platforms, to exchanges and compliance systems. Keenan joined Adaptive as a senior consultant in London in 2014 before becoming Head of Project Execution and then moving to New York in 2017 to set up Adaptive’s US operations. Prior to joining Adaptive, he held roles in electronic trading and execution technology at Barclays and BNP Paribas.

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