W BRAD BECHTEL

Brad Bechtel is a Managing Director of Faros Trading, LLC. Mr. Bechtel joins Faros Trading with over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry and capital markets.

Most recently, Mr. Bechtel was a Vice President in Foreign Exchange Sales at Goldman Sachs, within the Securities Division in New York. His primary responsibilities included client relationship management, macro market coverage and selling foreign exchange (FX) products to hedge funds and real money FX overlay managers, with a specialty in covering equity hedge funds. Mr. Bechtel helped clients with FX funding and hedging strategies and understanding how to measure fair value in FX using internally developed valuation models.

ABOUT FAROS TRADING, LLC

Faros Trading is a new and innovative foreign exchange (FX) service provider, not a traditional provider like the large wholesale banks and ECNs. Faros Trading offers our clients a complete front-to-back FX business solution, provides superior FX pricing and STP benefits that allow institutional investors to grow and scale their international portfolios, without adding operational overhead to their firm. Faros Trading has access to deep liquidity from multiple sources while providing clients with increased purchasing power and anonymity, eliminating the worry of leaving a ‘footprint’ in the FX marketplace when trading. Superior FX pricing and execution is complemented by post-trade STP business solutions and operational efficiency.

Faros is the only alternative FX execution destination that provides full ecommerce capabilities while also providing full service coverage and execution for all spot, forwards, swaps and NDFs. Clients use Faros in many ways but our anonymity, access to information and pricing capabilities are valued above all. We are a perfect destination for tactical trade flow that clients prefer to keep hidden from the street. Faros accesses a deep pool of liquidity from multiple sources and provides clients extremely competitive pricing. Faros has a professional staff of FX sales traders that average over 14 years of FX experience each and specialize in FX coverage. We synthesize views and market color from across the street and provide one cohesive message to our clients.