Alexey Kirienko

Alexey Kirienko is the Managing Partner and CEO of Exante brokerage company. He is one of the three co-founders of the company, together with Gatis Eglitis and Anatoly Knyazev. The goal of creating the trading platform was to make it as easy as possible for the end user to use financial instruments for business.

His early interest in mathematical analysis and statistics became the basis for choosing his future profession, after graduation Alexey has a master's degree in economics. Having mastered the theoretical part without practice, he wanted to transfer the lecture knowledge to the real financial market. After a year of studying Alexey has been trying his hand at security trading, constantly improving his investment techniques. By the end of studying he was able to acquire trader's skills and operate with statistical arbitrage. The trading strategy is based on intellectual search and analysis of input data.

Working at a brokerage firm

He started his career in 2001 as a static futures arbitrage trader. Since 2003 he has been trading derivatives on the international markets. The gained experience in trading static arbitrage and financial instruments reveals Alexey's inner potential. The ability to analyze situations and minimize risks is corrected by new strategies for advantageous trading. The basis for understanding the positive trends in the international markets is laid.

EXANTE

Exante, an international investment company, owes its emergence in 2011 to the beginning of Alexey's business cooperation with Galis Eglitis. From the very beginning the company was able to attract a large number of clients. This is due to the fact that during the development of business model Alexey has emphasized simplicity, accessibility and convenient functionality. Mediation between investors, traders and stock exchanges is the main activity of Exante.

In the same year, the company obtained a licence of incorporation issued by the Malta Financial Authority. This is a government body that regulates and monitors the legality in the financial and credit sector of the economy. The dynamic growth of the company after 12 months allowed it to offer its services in Cyprus from Ext Ltd. The operation is under the scrutiny of EU regulator ESMA and local SYcec. The Asian market was attracted in 2019 by obtaining a license for XHK Ltd. The permission was obtained from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Authority.

Accomplishments

The company's success is reflected in the expert recognition that has resulted in numerous awards. Among them:

• Blockchain Awards

• Finance Review

• Best Trading Platform

• Diversity in Finance

• Investment Award.

Following the recent Best CEO 2020/21 personal award, Alexey Kiriyenko said in an interview: "The European Business Magazine award is very important for the company and for me personally. It reflects the efforts that the EXANTE team has put into improving the platform, user experience and business process optimization".

Today, Alexey Kirienko is a recognised expert in the trading of financial assets on global markets. He is invited to the seminars with speeches on relevant topics and often participates in the international conferences in the field of finance. The main activity of Exante is not the only one for Alexey; he is constantly looking for new projects. The priority is given to early startups with qualitatively better financial product for the market.