DarwinexSpanish ‘fintech’ allowing retail and professional investors from over 70 countries Go on strategies reference tradersannounced this Wednesday € 100 million under managementafter growing up 45% in the last nine months. The company, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Madrid and offices in London, Benefits about a year ago and more 170,000 users registered with an average account (30% from Spain and 70% from abroad) 30.000 €and with more 3,000 strategies It is an investment that can be followed.
The company, which has been operating since 2014, licence operate in United Kingdom and was licensed to operate in the EU in July. CNMV Spanishstrategies of ‘traders’ investment grade indices making it available to investors. These operators are attracting capital and collecting commissions Without incurring the costs of direct regulation of success (which they shared with Darwinex). Provided to investors diversify your portfolio through alternative management tools instant liquidity and together maximum risk limits thus the probability of loss is similar to that of a variable income mutual fund.
“We offer alternative management strategies to retail and professional investors. transparent, accessible ecosystem and more importantly with controlled riskHe noted that its CEO, Juan Colón, co-founded the company along with his brother Javier Colón (head of product) and Miguel Sato (director of technology). Darwinex was founded in 2012 and 67 employeesachieved nine million euro capital (two provided by the Colón family) in three rounds of financing and between shareholders Ignacio Sanchez AsiaHe is a former senior position at BBVA, KutxaBank and Popular and also serves as a non-executive chairman.
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Among the ‘merchants’, asset managers organized, data scientists and professional players poker or ‘e-game’among other profiles. Some of the most popular indices have more than one 10 million euro investment and earn hundreds of thousands of Euros every year in commissions for the creators of the strategies. In fact, since its inception, the firm has paid more than just: four million in euros commissions to ‘traders’. The firm has agreed to integrate its platform with the current one. Interactive BrokersIt’s the world’s largest retail investments that it hopes to make a jump in size in the United States.
The company has no major corporate shareholders. in 2017, speeches to be By British hedge fund BlueCrest Capital, but they were unable to reach a settlement in the end. Since then, its founders explain that they have been in talks with other companies. “We don’t look for it, but it comes to us,” says Juan Colón. “We would only sell if they let us keep our vision. Our goal is to be a reference platform for ‘traders’,” adds his brother Javier.