Antony Tan joins IS Prime Hong Kong from Invast Global

IS Prime Hong Kong, part of the ISAM Capital Markets Group, has appointed Antony Tan as Vice President of Trading Solutions, Asia. Mr Tan joins IS Prime Hong Kong from Invast Global where he was Head of Dealing Services.

Antony Tan is the first new member of IS Prime Hong Kong’s coverage team since the firm received its SFC Type 3 Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading licence in December 2019. In his new role, he will be working with Kevin Jock and Ben Li, managing the Group’s liquidity and risk client relationships across the Asia Pacific region. He will report directly into Will Robbins, IS Prime’s Head of Asia.

Antony Tan

Antony Tan, an Australian national who is fluent in English and Cantonese, has extensive experience in the financial markets. He spent four years at Invast Global in Sydney where he was involved in client onboarding and supervision, trade execution services and liquidity management. Previous roles also include co-founding and growing a Fintech business in China and Operations Associate at Prime Liquidity Solutions in Sydney. 

Will Robbins, Head of Asia at IS Prime, comments, “As we increase our presence across the Asia Pacific region and build out our regulated FX and OTC derivatives offerings, we continue to invest in experienced, high calibre staff to allow us to offer the highest levels of service to our clients within the Asia time zone. Antony will be an asset to the team as he brings deep knowledge and experience of regional markets to our coverage function.”

Antony Tan adds, “The opportunity to join IS Prime, industry leaders in multi-asset brokerage and execution services, is a natural step up. I am excited about working with an experienced team whose award winning, cutting-edge offerings have bolstered the company. I look forward to using my experience to help them to continue their rapid growth.”

Will Robbins

IS Prime Hong Kong provides institutional professional investors with customised pricing primarily sourced from Tier 1 institutions, together with multi-asset Prime of Prime services and comprehensive front-to-back technology solutionsIS Prime Hong Kong is part of ISAM Capital Markets, which also includes London-based FCA regulated Prime of Prime brokerage, IS Prime, and US-based risk management specialist, IS Risk Analytics.

For more information, please visit www.isprimefx.com

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