Dear Customer,
I would like to personally extend my gratitude to you, our valued JFD client, for selecting us to be your game changing electronic trading and wealth management solutions provider.
In today’s financial turmoil, while a majority of historical brokers and financial institutions are increasingly experiencing regulatory pressures, volume drops and client disengagements, adopting a transparent, "indus-try-disruptive" and democratic “Just Fair & Direct” approach [WIN (JFD) + WIN (Partner) + WIN (Client) business model] makes a lot of sense.
Your loyal support has enabled JFD’s continued growth, a success which however came with challenges. Working together with both clients and partners has enabled us to overcome them one by one, and our motivation to prevail over any obstacle and keep growing in the years ahead is as strong as ever as we enter 2016. For this reason, we very much look forward to engaging in a long-term successful relationship with you, as we strive to meet your objectives today, tomorrow and far into the future.
We launched in December 2011, after 18 months of intensive research and development, our unique best-of-breed electronic trading and wealth management solution suite, successfully deploying a comprehensive and desirable upgrade of the MetaTra-der: JFD’s exclusive MT4+ which has become immensely popular over the years. Combined with cutting-edge Quants & HFT-based strategies such as JFD’s exclusive Top Spin offered via managed mandates and exchange-listed vehicles, JFD has created a stir in the industry, amongst giant competitors.
We then validated our "disruptive" business model, secured our operational infrastructures and geared up to deploy our main divisions comprising of JFD Brokers, JFD Prime and JFD Wealth, as well as JFD Research which supports our brands with invaluable market research. Since then we have kept on generating remarkable growth and positive client feedbacks which we pride ourselves upon.
By 2015, as the industry kept adopting and praising our solutions, we made an appearance in Finance Magnates’ Quarterly Industry Reports, proudly ranking among the 25 largest electronic brokerage firms worldwide and 5 largest MT4 Brokers Worldwide. Most notably, we secured a leading and enviable foothold in Europe, particularly across German and French speaking territories where we attracted a sophisticated client base and won numerous
awards, while addressing a global footprint already spanning 60+ countries over 5 continents. With a presence through our offices in Germany, France and Bulgaria, we established our Headquar-ters in Cyprus, the second largest retail electronic trading hub in Europe, a highly regulated MiFID jurisdiction, yet cost-effective from a corporate taxation, real estate and labour cost point of view. Security remains a key element of our business, and we are licensed and regulated by numerous international authorities, as we continue to safekeep our clients’ funds through Top Tier Banking Institutions in Germany and the UK.
In 2014-2015, our YoY trading volumes was +63%, while our client funds in deposit was an impressive +113%, and in the same period our growth for account openings was +42%.
Recently, we won various awards which acknowledge our hard work so far, including: Fastest Growing Wealth Management Company in Western Europe 2015, Best New Alternative Invest-ment Fund in Western Europe 2015 and Best FX and CFD Research in Western Europe 2015 (Global Banking & Finance Review awards).
We continue to systematically invest in technology instead of marketing so we could develop and deploy the most cutting-edge IT and server infrastructure money can buy.
While retail investors are becoming more sophisticated and demanding, their access to world-class services and products remains extremely limited, if not strictly cut-off. Our mission is to offer such investors a complete solution suite: non-discriminatory, cost effective and risk-averse access to the financial markets through an array of products and services typically reserved to the private banking client base elite. Committed to best execution and transparency standards as well as to interoperability between different platforms, we actively promote the standardization of institutional-grade solutions via JFD’s uniquely client-centric open architecture solution suite, comprising execution-only, research, advisory, sales trading, managed mandates, and corporate services, with a focus on absolute return Quants/HFT and capital-safe structured products.
In 2016, we expanded our framework across the EMEA and Asia launching an exciting set of new services including Margin
JFD in Review
Message from the CEO
Looking Forward
Cyril TABET Partner & CEO
JUSTFAIR &
DIRECT
Trading, Wealth Management, FX Delivery, and IT & Prime solutions, always delivering outstanding trading functionality, market reach, depths of liquidity, speed of execution and robust IT scalability at ultra-competitive costs. The future is "in beta": at JFD, we continuously look for opportunities to provide our clients with more ways to invest and grow. That is our commit-ment, and what we believe shall be the new electronic trading and wealth management benchmark, full stop.
My partner Lars GOTTWIK, and myself, as well as everyone at JFD, are immensely proud of the Just Fair and Direct solutions we have on offer and again we thank you for making JFD such a respected and successful venture. We look forward to taking this exciting multi-dimensional journey with you today, tomorrow and far ahead into the future.
With best regards, Cyril TABET, Partner & CEO
JFD Brokers Ltd., Kakos Premier Tower, Kyrillou Loukareos 70, 4156 Limassol, Cyprus TEL: +357 25878530 FAX: +357 25763540
