Spotware Systems parts ways with marketing head Aris Christoforou

abdelaziz Fathi

Spotware Systems, a technology provider for the electronic trading industry, has parted ways with Aris Christoforou, who had been in the capacity of its head of marketing for nearly ten months.

Christoforou was tasked with managing the group’s global marketing capabilities based out of Cyprus. His mandate was to focus on bolstering the firm’s brand strategy, its product marketing efforts, corporate communications, and digital marketing efforts.

The outgoing exec rejoins his own venture, Nutriapptech, a specialized CRM software and mobile application he founded two years ago.

Christoforou describes himself as a data-driven marketing executive with a passion for digital transformation, and he already has previous expertise within the FX industry. He has over nine years of additional experience in the marketing space, with the majority of his time being dedicated to SignatureCD. A five year tenure as a marketing manager at the family-owned business took Aris’ career between 2013 and 2019.

Christoforou joined the team behind the CySEC-regulated FX broker AAATrade as a marketing executive back in 2019. Before that, he served in an analogues role with PrimeXM, a provider of FX bridge aggregation and institutional hosting solutions.

Spotware Systems has recently launched updated versions of its cTrader Desktop and Web terminals, which add new functionality to join a roster of advanced trading capabilities.

cTrader Desktop 4.4 ameliorates the traders’ experience through one of the biggest selections of technical improvements within several years, according to a corporate statement.

With the new version, cTrader Desktop now supports shared account access and advanced technical analysis features, including an updated drawing toolbar and new Fibonacci Time zones to level up users’ trading experience.

Users can now share, revoke, and waive access to their trading accounts with other traders. However, the access is limited to trading activities and does not include deposits and withdrawals on behalf of the account holder. Portfolio managers and IBs can access and manage several shared accounts of different users.

Largely focused on the developers in the cTrader ecosystem, the update ensures swiftness in general performance after the terminal migrated to the latest. NET6 version. But while the updates spice up the desktop version with some of the most sought-after additions, cTrader maintains the old NET4 framework for backward compatibility with all existing cBots and indicators.

These new features securely fall in line with Spotware’s goal of keeping cTrader as one of most trader friendly platforms on the market. The company says that adding such preferences allows their traders to decide exactly how they want the platform to work for them.

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