RYAN NETTLES
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My Story

Ryan was born and raised in the suburbs outside Chicago, Illinois and had the desire to become a veterinarian some day.  But as life chooses one's path, Ryan's path lead him into the financial services industry a few years after his Animal Science studies at Oklahoma State University after he visited a friend working as a floor trader at Chicago Board of Trade.  Ryan loved the excitement and challenges of the financial markets and has been active in financial services ever since for over 20 years.
In 1997, Ryan obtained his series 3 futures broker license and began his financial services career in a entry leval sales position at the brokerage firm Futures & Options of Texas based in Houston, Texas before the emergence of online futures trading.  After less than two years after building a significant client base, Ryan ventured off on his own and founded the online futures brokerage firm First American Securities & Futures, LLC in 1998 which later he sold to a Latin American business group in 2002. ​
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Since 2019, Ryan co-founded and is Managing Partner at Guru Capital, a Swiss private equity firm providing advisory services to investment funds on strategic opportunities within the financial services industry.  In 2020, Ryan has been appointed as Non-Executive Director at ETX Capital which is a portfolio company of a fund associated with Guru Capital.
In 2003, Ryan's entry into the FX industry began when he joined Commerce Bank & Trust in Boston, Massachusetts as their Head of FX Sales where he was responsible for developing their global retail FX business.  In 2010, Ryan joined Swissquote Bank located near Geneva, Switzerland where his role was Head of FX Trading & Market Strategy, being responsible of the revenue transformation of their FX, Precious Metals, CFDs and Cryptocurrency business.  

In the Media 


Bloomberg
  • For currency traders, a quiet thursday then a vertical red line
  • Pound Traders Glued to Desks as Brexit Vote meets Witching Hour
Reuters
  • ​Bitcoin rockets above $5,000 to all-time high
Finance Feeds
  • Inside Swissquote: Senior director Ryan Nettles gives FinanceFeeds a full tour of the firm’s Gland headquarters
  • Swissquote goes from strength to strength as multi-asset M&A drive continues to bear fruit
  • The old-school lobbyists may well want to force all OTC FX on exchange, but what if you are a Swiss Bank? – Op Ed
  • Swiss-style FX ringfencing: Is this the antidote to continual regulatory encroachment on our industry?
  • FinanceFeeds London Cup – Where 70 senior executives represented the very top of the FX industry. The full montage
  • Focus on multi-asset liquidity across multiple venues
  • "Mind the Gap!" - The life and times of a man on the move episode 10
  • M&A Deal of the Year: Ryan Nettles' Guru Capital completes acquisition of ETX Capital
Finance Magnates
  • Rupee Weakness Boosts Trading Activity of The Indian Currency
  • Swissquote Veteran Ryan Nettles Leaves after 10 years
  • Two Ex-Swissquote Execs Launch Swiss Advisory Firm
Leaprate
  • Swissquote’s Ryan Nettles on MT5 liquidity, MT4-to-MT5 switching, and more
Best Execution
  • ​Ryan Nettles, Head eForex Trading & Market Strategy, Swissquote Bank SA speaks to Best Execution and gives a market perspective from the retail side of the FX trading community.
Malta Today
  • Swissquote sets up European arm in Malta​
e-Forex
  • Pushing the boundaries in retail forex with cutting edge trading services
  • Finding the right CFD liquidity providers to grow your business
  • Quality vs Quantity - Tipping the balance of FX Liquidity

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