GreySpark Partners has appointed Stephane Lannoy as managing consultant, where he will lead the firm’s pre-trade risk control practice in Hong Kong.

Lannoy will focus on expanding the firm’s pre-trade risk control practice. This involves working with banks and securities firms in the Asia Pacific region to assess existing controls applied to electronic trading execution systems against best practice and to advise them on control improvements.

“Clients are demanding more and more from their electronic trading systems such as access to a wider range of dark pools, low and ultra-low latency market access and sophisticated algorithms,” said Andrew McLauchlan, managing director, GreySpark Partners.

“At the same time there are increasing risk and compliance controls due to higher regulatory requirements. Stephane’s extensive experience bolsters our existing capability in this area.”

Lannoy has experience in senior technology roles at exchanges, brokerages and trading and software providers in Europe, the US and Asia, including Fimat/Newedge where Lannoy was chief information officer, and RTS Realtime Systems where he then served as Asia managing director.

Before joining GreySpark Lannoy was executive director of operations and technology at the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange.