Saxo Bank investment comp winner declared at Dubai lecture

DUBAI - Saxo Bank, an online trading and investment specialist in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), declared the winner of an investment and trading competition at the Trading Options Lecture earlier this week.
 
The Trading Options Lecture, which took place at the Arjaan Hotel Conference Centre, Media City, Dubai on Tuesday 20th September, saw the announcement of the winner who was awarded an iPad2 by Jacob Beck Thomsen, the CEO of Saxo Bank (Dubai) Ltd.
 
Thomsen said, “We like talent and this event (competition) was a great opportunity for talented business students who are interested in learning more about trading and investment. The competition gave a lot of talented students the opportunity to gain experience in trading and investing in capital markets and I am looking forward to meeting them all at the conference.”
 
Participants of the competition were provided with a demo account of Saxo Bank’s award-winning platform - Saxo Trader and virtual money amount of $100,000. This was to be invested in the capital market in any of the Saxo Bank products that include Contract Futures, Stocks, FX Spot, FX Forwards, CFDs, and CFDs on Indices & Futures.
 
Event attendees were addressed by Gustave Rieunier, Global Head of FX Options & Forward Trading in Saxo Bank. He discussed the strategies for trading in the Capital Market, particularly in Options. The students who attended the lecture also got to know about the various career opportunities in the domain of Trading and Investment Banking.
 
Both the competition and the lecture was organised in partnership with the Manchester Business School (MBS), Middle East Centre.
 
For further information, visit www.saxobank.com.
 
About Saxo Bank (Dubai)

Saxo Bank, Dubai is a fully owned subsidiary of Saxo Bank A/S and offers access to Saxo Bank A/S’s trading platforms to professional private and corporate clients as also institutional investors. Saxo Bank enables private investors and institutional clients to trade FX, CFDs, Stocks, Futures, Options and other derivatives via multi-award winning online trading platforms, as well as offering professional portfolio and fund management.
 
Contact Information:
Tel: +971 4 381 6000
Email: me-private@saxobank.com
 
 
About Manchester Business School, Middle East Centre
 
The Middle East Centre of the Manchester Business School is located at the Knowledge Hub called ‘Dubai Knowledge Village’. Started in 2006, the centre provides support and co-ordination to about 1000 students in the Middle East region all of who are experienced functional specialists or business managers.
 
Contact Information:
Tel: (04) 446 8664
Fax: (04) 446 8665
Email: middleeast@mbs-worldwide.ae
 

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Kasper Elbjorn

Head of Group Public Relations

Saxo Bank

(45) +45 30654300

kel@saxobank.com