An introduction to Saxo Bank

12 quick facts about Saxo Bank

• Established 1992, Saxo Bank has provided a powerful suite of products and platforms to give private clients, partners, institutions, banks and brokers instant and reliable access to the global financial markets.
• Saxo Bank is headquartered in Copenhagen with regional offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan, Madrid, London, Dubai, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Athens, Zurich, Prague and Paris. Saxo also operates representative offices in Sydney and Moscow.
• In 2007, Saxo Bank announced the friendly acquisition of Swiss Synthesis Bank, which has now become Saxo Bank Switzerland. This was followed by a purchase agreement with Cambiste, a French online brokerage firm, aimed at expanding Saxo Bank’s global presence.
• Saxo Bank has developed three specialised trading platforms. The browser-based SaxoWebTrader, the downloadable SaxoTrader and the SaxoMobileTrader, a mobile phone trading platform. All are fully integrated under one account. At Saxo Capital Markets, the minimum account starts from SGD 10,000. The platforms are available in over 20 languages.
• A fully licensed and regulated European investment bank, Saxo Bank gives its global base of individual retail clients access to more than 14500 stocks from 29 exchanges, over 160 FX crosses (incl. Gold and Silver), more than 8300 CFDs, Futures and other asset classes, as well as portfolio and fund management solutions for the professional investor.
• Aggregating liquidity from more than 10 Tier-1 providers, Saxo Bank offers access to excellent market liquidity across asset classes and global exchanges combined with front-end data and sophisticated risk analytics.
• Saxo Bank has a dedicated institutional business, where creating partnerships is of central importance. Saxo Bank’s platforms are offered to Introducing Brokers and financial institutions, as well as being rebranded and customised for its White Labelling business.
• All trading platforms are developed internally, underlining Saxo Bank’s focus on technology and IT.
• Saxo Bank’s financial expertise is derived from a specialised, multinational staff of well over a thousand employees, who are dedicated to serving a client base spread across almost 180 countries.
• Clients can access market research and analysis from Saxo Bank’s Strategy Team as well as renowned external sources. This information is supplemented by streamed newsfeeds from providers such as Dow Jones Newswire and Market News International.
• Saxo Bank has consistently won key accolades from the industry’s leading publications, such as FX Week, Euromoney, Profit & Loss and World Finance. Click here to view the full list of awards.
• Saxo Bank is a proud sponsor of the Tour de France winning team, Team Saxo Bank.