Darwinex UnCut

In this episode, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex talks about the current Darwinex business model, emphasizing the following:

1) Why Darwinex does not operate a B-Book (the vision, ethos and motivation behind the decision).

2) How Darwinex could be making millions of €€€€ more IF it were to B-book clients, and how under an Agency model, its ultimate vision is to help its clients grow and succeed.

3) How, for customers to succeed, Darwinex has to work hard to help traders become better traders.

4) How, for Darwinex to do that, it must endeavour to provide the best possible trading conditions to reduce transaction costs and help traders retain more of their returns.

5) Pre and Post ESMA impact.

6) Why Darwinex relies solely on Organic Acquisition, and cannot do direct or indirect acquisition of clients like other brokers who do operate B-Books.

Juan talks about Spread Capture Books, and makes a transparent case for WHY and WHAT Darwinex does operationally to provide better execution conditions for micro-ticket orders.. which its Prime Brokers cannot process directly to marketand are internalizing such flow themselves anyway!

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This episode of the #darwinex-uncut Brokernomics mini-series is about organic acquisition of customers by brokers.

Very much related to the theme, our CEO delivers heart-felt reasoning behind WHY Darwinex came into being.

He sheds light on the motivation, the people behind the effort, why the world needed YET ANOTHER broker (to solve the problem he goes on to describe).

From Forex conferences in Cyprus, oddly good-looking girls and race cars, to brokers not wanting to source nor develop technology to actually IMPROVE trader and investor outcomes…

… Juan revisits history, describing how all of this drove him and his brother to setup their own retail brokerage to drain the swamp, to bring meritocracy and fair odds back to the retail financial landscape.

He PULLS NO PUNCHES in this video… people need to hear these things as they are, without sugar-coating, Armani suits and gimmicky sales effects.

Expect harsh truths, and lots of swearing… but most of all, the BRUTAL realities of the financial industry that Darwinex was born for - and works hard every day - to change.

For commenting, please go to https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130/3

In this video, Darwinex CEO Juan Colón, talks about the motivation behind the DARWIN Asset Management Terminal launched recently.

He emphasizes how important a milestone this is in the evolution of Darwinex as an Exchange, in terms ranging from transparency, feedback mechanisms for traders serving DARWINs, monitoring investor outcomes and furthering meritocracy in the financial markets.

In this next segment of the Brokernomics Series, Juan Colón - CEO @ Darwinex - talks about:

- Indirect Acquisition (e.g. through affiliates / introducing brokers)

- How the Darwinex Business Model is not designed to support this form of client acquisition (and the reasons / conflicts of interest issues behind why this is so)

We're keen to reply to your comments on the Darwinex Community Forum:

In this 2nd installment on Brokernomics, Juan talks about Direct Acquisition of clients by brokers.

He sheds light on how much it costs for example, a highly reputable, major, well-established brand and broker like IG, to onboard a new customer, when on average the company breaks even after spending the money to onboard the customer, and what the cumulative lifetime value of that customer is to the company.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

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The IG Group example in this conversation serves to both appreciate and demonstrate the scale at which large, successful brands like IG operate. Darwinex respects IG and congratulates them for their success, and does not consider IG as its competitor - different target client niches altogether.

Juan also explains why Darwinex does not and will not spend large sums in upfront advertising costs to attract clientele, relying exclusively on existing clients' recommendation and word of mouth.

We’d like to encourage you to let us know if you’d like us to cover anything specific in this series. Just reply here, on the forum (https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-miniseries/7130) or easily send us a voice message (https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex).

In this episode, Juan Colón - CEO, Darwinex - emphasizes the need for all retail market participants to understand how their brokers really work, inside out.

A broker is a complex machine, its inner workings not having much in the way of publicly available information.

With this series of conversations, Juan attempts to describe the inner workings of this complex machinery. The better you understand how we work, the better we are able to serve you at the end of the day.

We’d like to encourage you to let us know if you’d like us to cover anything specific in this series. Just reply here, on the forum (https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-miniseries/7130) or easily send us a voice message (https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex).

In this episode, Juan Colón, CEO @ Darwinex talks about how the capacity of your trading strategy scales as you attract more assets under management (AuM).

He discusses how the:

1) Assets

2) Times of day (high vs low liquidity hours),

3) Size and

4) Toxicity

.. of your trades affect the trading conditions you experience.

He also goes deeper into how Liquidity Providers make money, and how LPs look at the value and toxicity of order flow.

Please feel free to comment on this episode at the Darwinex Community Forum (https://community.darwinex.com/t/understanding-capacity-toxic-flow/7116).

Juan Colón, CEO @ Darwinex sheds light on how the current OTC (over-the-counter) Value Chain can be disrupted so as to generate better conditions for all parties involved.

Specifically, he talks about:

1) Darwinex's FX and CFDs franchise

2) A RECAP on how OTC markets work

3) Intermediaries (the chain of middle-men) involved in the journey of trades between traders and the market

4) Debunking the myth of more LPs equals more liquidity

5) How can the existing OTC Value Chain be optimized such that clients get even more competitive trading conditions, and Darwinex simultaneously gets additional revenue to re-invest into growing and making the current technology stack faster for clients, A.K.A. more competitive execution conditions.

Juan & the team are keen to receive your comments on The Darwinex Community's forum (https://community.darwinex.com/t/disrupting-the-otc-value-chain/7022) or via voice message (https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex). Questions via voice messages will be featured in coming episodes.

In this podcast, Juan Colón and Ali Saif follow up on last week's insightful comments (https://community.darwinex.com/t/interactive-brokers-darwinex-the-way-forward-in-2020/6912).

They talk about Darwinex's branding challenge and how we plan to brand the Darwinex&IB pack. Among other things, Ali reveals the reason he signed up as a user years ago.

The Private Label gets also a mention before they dive into Darwinex&IB details. They cover how it will work where Darwinex has a broker licence and how where it has none, like in the US. And also how exactly Darwinex will make money in this relationship.

Also, ever wondered how a merit-driven access to the best DARWIN assets could look like? (Considering limited capacity.) Listen to the episode to know more about it.

We're awaiting your questions and comments at https://community.darwinex.com/t/interactive-brokers-darwinex-the-way-forward-in-2020-2-2/6963.

In next week's episode, we'll cover the asset managemet terminal deployed this week. Send your questions replying to the relevant forum topic (https://community.darwinex.com/t/weve-launched-v1-0-of-the-asset-management-terminal/6943/6) or via a voice message from here: https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex

Enjoy!

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We want 2020 to be year we integrate Interactive Broker's asset offering into the Darwinex ecosystem. Join Darwinex CEO Juan Colón and and CDS Ali Saif talk about the decisions we'll need to take in relation to what promises to become an important milestone in our evolution.

We're keen to receive your questions and comments on the Darwinex forum at https://community.darwinex.com/t/the-way-forward-with-interactive-brokers/6912 or via a voice message at https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex.