About Global Trader

• Regulated by Financial Services Board (FSB), SA

• Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS) compliant

• Derivative member of JSE

Global Trader has no access to your funds.

Your funds are segregated from Global Trader's funds.

Customer accounts are held in a local bank in ZAR, ensuring exceptional fund stability in the current economic climate.

Global Traders is a registered financial services provider and is also a “financial institution” as defined in the Financial Institutions (Protection of Funds) Act 28 of 2001. Section 4 (5) of the Financial Institutions (Protection of Funds) Act provides that all trust money held by financial institutions as defined does not form part of the assets or funds of the financial institution concerned.

In addition, there is common law protection for client’s funds held in a ring-fenced manner.  

However, please seek the independent advice of your financial or legal advisor as our opinion herein is not a warranty, guarantee or representation.

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Mark Barnes: Executive Chairman

Mark Barnes embarked on a 20-year career in financial services with a BBusSc (Actuarial Science) from the University of Cape Town and a PMD from Harvard Business School behind him. He has a strong track record of leadership in the financial services market in South Africa. Some highlights include being a member of the Standard Bank Group's Executive Committee, Group Chief Executive of Capital Alliance Holdings Limited and Group CEO of Brait. In February 2005 Mark acquired a significant stake in Purple Capital and was appointed Executive Chairman

Charles Savage: Chief Executive Officer 

Charles Savage pioneered the world’s first online spread trading platform to execute client transactions without any human intervention in 2001.This brought him to Global Trader, where he has managed the group's South African business since 2003 and its technology strategy until 2005. Charles led the group buyout by Purple Capital in 2007. As CEO of Global Trader, Charles is responsible for the company’s overall strategy and directly leads the execution of sales, marketing and business development strategies. Charles is also a member of the Purple Capital board

James Saulez: Head of Online Trading & CIO

James Saulez was appointed as Chief Technology Officer of Global Trader in July 2008. James was mandated to spearhead the adoption of innovation and maintain the stability of Global Trader's current trading platforms.

James has now been appointed Chief Operating Officer.

Mike Wilson: Chief Financial Officer

Mike qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995 and has worked in various consulting and financial management positions in companies in South Africa, UK and Australia. He is currently Financial Director of Global Trader and the Purple Capital Group.

Andrew Kinsey: Group Head of Risk 

Andrew has been involved in financial markets since 1991. He has traded in the foreign exchange, equity and fixed income derivatives markets. Andrew provides training services in risk management, portfolio management and capital market products to international investment banks. Andrew joined Global Trader in December 2007 to facilitate the risk management and product development activities of the group

Nilan Morar: Head Trading Desk

Nilan has been involved in financial markets for the past 15 years. Areas of expertise include money markets, fixed income administration and trading, and derivatives. Seeing the opportunity with Global Trader’s new and innovative offering to the market, Nilan joined Global Trader in 2002 as a sales trader. He now manages the South African Trading Desk

Bradley Leather: Head of Sales Trading 

A co-founder of Global Trader, Bradley Leather gained his early experience in London, Sydney and New York. He started on the LIFFE market in London, then traded financial futures on the Sydney Futures Exchange, specialized in emerging markets at Intercapital Brokers and then worked at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York for three years. When Bradley relocated to South Africa, he focused on broking South African bonds. He was appointed as Head of Sales for Global Trader in 2007

Flynn Robson: Group Head Of Sales

London's HSBC Investment Bank and other leading investment banks in the city provided a 5-year foundation for Flynn Robson. He started in 2001 as a traders' assistant in structured derivative products and went on to work in several front and back office environments. Flynn moved back to South Africa to join Global Trader as Operations Manager, to build a global level support team. From there he soon moved up to Head of Operations and then to Head of New Business Development. 

Almero Oosthuizen: Marketing Manager

Almero joined Global Trader as Marketing Manager in March 2010, after spending 4 years in London in the television production industry and 3 years in the publishing industry, with Ramsay Media. Almero is responsible for the marketing and public relations of Global Trader and the Purple Capital group.