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Richard is a pioneer in high frequency finance with extensive entrepreneurial experience and well known for his academic work. He was co-founder of OANDA, a currency information company and market maker in foreign exchange. Under Richard’s stewardship as CEO of OANDA the company was a shooting star that launched the first fully automated FX trading platform offering second-by-second interest rate payments and netted 37 million of profits in 2007. Already at OANDA, he conceived the first trading platform with second-by-second interest payments.

Richard Olsen is the founder and CEO of Lykke, a Swiss Fintech company building a global blockchain-powered marketplace. He is chief executive of Olsen Ltd, an investment manager, and visiting professor at the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the University of Essex.

His ambition is to transform financial markets into a seamless system without the inefficiencies that we today take for granted.