Forex Person of the Year 2013: Finalists

For the 3rd time already, FXStreet will nominate its “Forex Person of the Year”. With this title, we want to highlight the work of a person, a team of people or a project that has positively contributed to make the Forex world better. Our market is big and many professionals work in it… some of them to make the business easier and better for the traders. Our focus has been, as every year, innovation, transparency and quality, and not necessarily going for the most famous names.

We present to you today the 2 finalists on our short list. Next week we will announce who we’ve finally elected for this title.

We would like to thank and congratulate the following people especially for their contribution to the Forex market.

Karin Zalcberg – Karinza

Karinza was established in 2010 by Karin Zalcberg, who has 8 years of building and consulting for call centres, helping to boost sales. Karin’s vast sales experience and knowledge in this sector has given her a top notch name in the industry. Karin has served as VP of Sales for eToro and xForex prior to starting Karinza LTD. Since 2009 Karinza has served over 50 brokers in the FX and Binary Option industry.

Karinza’s business grew by 28% in 2013 and recruited an additional 12 brokers to their respective client list. Ms. Zalcberg is a passionate leader whose energy is able to inspire an entire room, which is evident in the trainings Ms. Zalcberg conducts. Her passion to create transparency and challenge brokers to provide value for their clients is first class and her desire to create a better, safer market for traders is shown in her teaching based on needs based selling for all brokers. Karinza’s main goal is to help brokers to increase transparency with the traders and assist and educate their sales teams to provide the best and most relevant information, and serving the clients best interest while maintaining brand integrity.

Achievements in 2013

Karinza’s main achievement in 2013 was their breakthrough to the Asian and North American market and the broker’s growth into those promising markets going into 2014. Another major achievement for 2013 was the launch of their world class sales manager training for brokers helping build tomorrow leaders within the brokers themselves.

 

What seduces us in Karinza?

• Its goal to assist the brokers in focusing their sales work on the people (the traders), and not the product: get to know the trader (potential client) and offer him what best suits him/her.
• The adaptation to the local markets: the Forex market is growing in non-occidental markets (particularly Asia) and it’s becoming more and more vital for the brokers to adapt their products and clients services with a local touch.

Here below you have a speech given by Karin Zalcberg at the Macau Expo in March 2013, where she explains her company’s work.

Laith Marmarchi and Nicole Elliot – ForexTradingTV

 

ForexTradingTV offers a real-time, technical and educational service: both new and experienced traders can go to get a clutter free view on the markets without the over analysis and noise of today’s trading environment. All content is pushed instantly to their mobile apps and produced by a growing team of analysts around the world specializing in different types of technical analysis. Their new dealer insight service reveals bank FX flows, institutional orders, central bank flows, stops and dealer sentiment . Retail traders have never had access to this type of info before and this is in addition to their existing political and economic headlines, giving day traders an instantly actionable edge. The objective is to keep traders abreast of market movements and news flow as well as remove workload by watching charts on their behalf and delivering technical setups in real-time.

The service has been launched by Laith Marmarchi and Nicole Elliot.

Laith Marmarchi, with 14 years experience in Forex trading, uses market sentiment analysis, trading psychology and short & long term technical analysis setups to identify daily trading opportunities. Laith’s trading career started in 1999 working as a market maker on the spot desk for Rosenthal Collins Group in London. Since then he has traded privately and launched ForexTrading.TV.

 

 

Nicole Elliot is a highly qualified, trusted industry veteran Technical Analyst with 30 years experience of financial analysis. She worked in the treasury dealing rooms of large UK, European and Japanese banks as a broker, trader and technical analyst. Nicole introduced Japanese Ichimoku Cloud Charting to a western audience and subsequently published books on the subject.

Achievements in 2013

ForexTradingTV was launched one year ago, has produced over 5,000 videos, had 750,000 page views, built 3 white label platforms for brokers, built 4 mobile apps, including 2 white label apps for brokers, and have a growing number of repeat followers from over 60 countries around the world every day.

 

What seduces us in ForexTradingTV?

• They launched their Forextrading TV product converting it into a very valuable and high quality product for traders with informative videos on the market, with alerts when the videos are launched and archived videos.
• They converted their small startup business into a trusted service and collaborative platform they now sell to brokers.

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