Transact on an exchange with only external market makers and strict AML policies

Constant market surveillance and market integrity checks ensure a safe trading environment for everyone

Experience trading tools and products not available anywhere else

Through the unique and diverse skills of our leadership team, EQUOS is bringing a new look to the industry by adapting features from traditional finance to the innovative and fast-paced crypto markets.  We offer full USD-USDC fungibility, and will soon offer cross-collateralization and portfolio margining.

The EQUOS team works closely with regulators from the world’s largest financial markets. We are built with a focus on regulatory compliance, operating from Singapore with an exemption granted under the Payment Services Act provided by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

We are committed to fostering transparency and equality by increasing industry accountability. We do not market make on our own exchange and all reported volumes are the result of real trades. 

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Richard has 20+ years of experience spanning finance, start-ups, investment, and fintech sectors.

Previously Managing Director at Nomura, the Japanese Investment Bank, Richard was running Derivative and Equity Linked product Sales for Asia Pacific product globally. The youngest Managing Director in the firm’s history, Richard led the build of the #1 franchise for Convertible Bonds in Asia from 2005. In both 2008 and 2009, he was the firm’s largest producing salesperson across Nomura’s global wholesale investment banking franchise. Richard led the syndication and distribution of some of Asia’s largest convertible bond deals in the last 15 years including China Unicom and Softbank.

In business, Richard has founded several companies and is an active investor, having started his first trading company in 1990. He is a board member of Bletchley Park Asset Management, Jersey, Diginex, and sits on the advisory board to PrivateMarket.io, a private equity fund marketplace.

Richard is Hong Kong Regional Ambassador for the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) and has spoken extensively around the merits of blockchain for business and finance at WEF (Davos) and the United Nations (Geneva).

Richard holds a BA (Hons) in French with Management from University of London, Royal Holloway College, and business school at ESC Montpellier (Montpellier Business School) and speaks French fluently.

Neil is responsible for overseeing Diginex’s financial services division including capital markets, trading, exchange, and trading products. Previously, he spent 13 years at Nomura in various roles across equity products in London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Most recently, Neil was Managing Director, Head of Equity Trading for Asia, managing complete equity and equity-linked product trading. Also, during his time at Nomura, he was also Global Head of Equity-linked Content and Trading, where he created and built an award-winning desk analyst team for both internal and external client use including managing their own trading books. Prior to this, Neil worked at Cazenove Group, in the Convertible Bonds Research, Sales, and Trading functions. Neil holds a MEng (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering from University of Bristol. He is a CFA charterholder, holds Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning and a Securities Institute Diploma in Equity Derivatives.

Ray is responsible for overseeing the technical implementation of Diginex’s products and services.

Ray has over 30 years of experience executing high-quality technology projects in Asia and the US, having worked in the investment banking, risk, technology, and exchange fields. Previously he was the CTO at Liquid, Japan’s largest crypto exchange, responsible for all technology initiatives supporting global clients.

Prior to this, Ray lead the team responsible for the technology implementation behind Thailand’s National Payments Infrastructure, one of which is a payment system now used by over 50 million people. Ray has also previously held technology and transformation roles at KPMG, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs.

Sheel leads the marketing and communications strategy for the company and is a member of the Executive Committee. He is responsible for developing and implementing the company’s marketing approach, so that it has a differentiated and enduring presence, and leads our efforts to distinguish the company as one of the most innovative digital asset financial services groups in the world.

He has been in marketing, communications, and journalism for 25 years, working in the financial services and technology industries. Before joining Diginex, Sheel was Chief Marketing Officer of AAX, the world’s first cryptocurrency exchange powered by LSEG Technology, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, and prior to that he was a Member of the Executive Committee and Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain protocol, which is one of the world’s fastest and most used blockchains the world.

He also spent 13 years at Credit Suisse, where he was Managing Director and Head of Corporate Communications for Asia Pacific, and he also spent five years at ING Group as Head of Corporate Communications and Branding for Asia Pacific. Sheel began his career in journalism, where he worked for a number of UK national and trade titles, while also serving as the Europe-based Business Correspondent for the South China Morning Post.

DK is responsible for overseeing and managing the delivery of EQUOS' products.

He has more than 15 years of experience in delivering large-scale IT, infrastructure, transformation, and business-critical projects spanning across equities, derivatives, prime brokerage, and asset management for financial services clients including Hong Kong Stock Exchange, UBS, Morgan Stanley, and Schroders. 

He is a CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), and has previously served as the Director Client Services, Product & Account Manager. 

Jim  is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the company’s business strategy, which includes the development of fully regulated and institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure for the financial services sector.

A senior financial services executive with over three decades of experience in multi-jurisdictional business development, transformation, regulation, risk, and finance, Jim previously held the title of COO in several of Westpac’s business lines in Australia and Singapore.

Prior to this, he spent 15 years at Merrill Lynch, where his roles included CFO for North Asia & Regional Financial Controller.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance) from the University of Western Australia.

Marieke is responsible for managing the company’s market risk and also works on the design of the EQUOS derivative suite. 

Marieke has extensive experience in Market Risk across various asset classes. Before joining Diginex, she was Market Risk Manager at Investec Bank in London where she was responsible for managing market risk across all the bank’s trading desks including the equity derivatives, credit, and FX desks. She led the implementation of the ISDA Standardised Initial Margin Model (SIMM) required under The European Market Infrastructure Regulation as well as the Bank’s Brexit stress-testing from a market risk perspective. She was part of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book working group implementing a set of proposals by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for market risk-related capital requirement for banks. She set up the tools to analyze, report and stress-test cleared margin requirements for the equity derivatives desk. 

Prior to this, Marieke worked at Gazprom Marketing & Trading, Gazprom’s commodity trading division in London, where she was responsible for the company’s semi-annual stress-testing cycle. She has also worked for Zanders Treasury & Finance where she spent most of her time consulting for one of the largest Tier 1 banks in the Netherlands.

Marieke holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance from Tilburg University and is a certified FRM 

Heather oversees global marketing and communications activities to build and strengthen EQUOS' brand. Previously, she was the APAC Communications Manager at PineBridge Investments, where she led the communications and PR strategy across the region. Prior to this, she was a Manager in Corporate and Financial Communications for Edelman PR Agency in Hong Kong, where her clients included major hedge funds, multinational corporations, and fortune 500 companies. She began her career with The Financial Times, reporting on investment management in London and Hong Kong.

James has more than three decades of financial services experience and is responsible for Treasury Operations, KYC, AML, Market Surveillance and Customer Service at EQUOS.

Previously he was Vice Principal at HSBC where he was the Site Head of Group KYC and Tax Operations/ Global and Commercial Banking for both Philippines and China. 

Prior to this, James worked at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs in a number of roles that spanned process and control, asset services, corporate actions, settlements, trade processing, regulatory reporting, risk management and prime brokerage. His career has spanned New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, India, Manila, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and China. 

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We are committed to fostering transparency and equality by increasing industry accountability. We do not market make on our own exchange and all reported volumes are the result of real trades.

Meet The Team

We will never compromise on the safety of our client’s assets and data.

Richard Byworth

Chief Executive Officer

Neil Sheppard

COO, Financial Services

Ray Hennessey

Chief Technology Officer

Sheel Kohli

Chief Marketing Officer

DK Khatri

Head of Product Management

Jim Pollock

Chief Operating Officer

Marieke VanKleef

Market Risk Manager

Heather Dale

Marketing Director

James Reed

Chief Operating Officer, Exchange

Richard Byworth

Chief Executive Officer

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