About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight People

FlexTrade Hires to Build Sell-Side OMS Strength in EMEA

Subscribe to our newsletter

FlexTrade, a provider of cross-asset execution and order management systems (EOMS), has appointed Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani as co-heads of sell-side OMS business development for the EMEA region.

Both Loi and Shirani come to FlexTrade with more than 25 years of combined experience in equities and derivatives trading technology. Since 1997, Loi has worked in London and on Wall Street as an equity trading systems consultant with investment firms such as HSBC, Santander, and Barclays, and technology providers Bloomberg and Fidessa. Shirani joins FlexTrade after more than eight years working with Fidessa in various roles across its equity and derivatives trading platforms.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: The Buy-side Trading Desk of the Future

Date: 23 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The buy-side trading desk is facing a structural reckoning. Decades of siloed systems for equities, FX and fixed income have created what COOs increasingly describe as a “silo tax” – duplicated headcount, fragmented data, and operational overhead that is...

BLOG

Buy or Build? Trade Surveillance Software’s Oldest Question Has New Stakes

By Nolan Schiff, Chief Solutions Officer, Eventus. It’s a question nearly as old as enterprise software itself: should you pay a vendor to deliver your technology, or dedicate internal resources to building and maintaining it yourself? For trade surveillance, it’s a decision that requires weighing cost against control, performance against customization and the speed of...

EVENT

TEST Event page 1

Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.

GUIDE

AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...