SideCaps announces hiring Chris Gregory as its new COO

“SideCaps has an incredible opportunity to meet a gap in the market for a block trading solution that is tailored to the needs of German equities. SideCaps will be the first block equity trading solution that is verticaly integrated with Xetra and EurexCCP and also the first block equity trading that has a viable solution for block trading of small cap German stocks.

I’m very excited to join SideCaps and look forward to the rollout of a solution that will change the European equity trading market.”

Biography
Chris Gregory has successfully launched and delivered profitable growth of a number of innovative electronic managed services and trading platforms on both the buy- and sell-side of the financial services industry. Notably, he founded Squawker, launching a pan-European block trading platform and driving it to profitability before pivoting the business post-MiFID ii to provide an equity finance platform for sourcing equity finance liquidity and booking transactions on exchange for CCP settlement.

Chris Gregory’s accomplishments also include launching a SaaS division of LatentZero, setting up a new FIX order-routing network, subsequently launching an “App Store” for broker algorithms and interfaces to 3rd party trading systems, along with the launch of a fully-hosted SaaS version of LatentZero. He played a key role in acquisition of LatentZero by Fidessa in 2008, with Fidessa subsequently acquired by ION.