The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) is pleased to announce the addition of Jump Trading as the newest Governing Council Member of the FX trade group.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to participate in FXPA, which promotes active discussions around the most pressing matters in the changing FX space,” says Mark Bruce, Business Development – Head of FICC at Jump Trading.

“The vision for FXPA is expressed in the mission statement, which is to represent the collective interests of professional foreign exchange industry participants to advance a sound, liquid, transparent and competitive global currency market to policymakers and the marketplace through education, research and advocacy. We are pleased to welcome Jump Trading to join us in this effort,” says an FXPA spokesperson.

Launched in September 2014, FXPA is uniquely comprised of a cross-section of the institutional FX industry. Diversity of membership is embedded in FXPA’s organizational construct to ensure wide representation of the professional FX market. Founding members epitomize this diversity – including the buy side, exchanges, clearing houses, trading platforms, technology companies, banks and non-bank market participants.