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Face to face: Ben Prade, UK CEO, Maple Securities

25 July 2011

Global Investor/isf talks to the new CEO of Maple Securities UK and discovers small can be beautiful

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Ben Prade was appointed CEO of Maple Bank’s UK subsidiary, Maple Securities, in January. He has been with Maple for fourteen years in both the UK and US and was previously co-head of securities finance for the company.  Since coming into the role, he has directed the firm’s business development and marketing, while overseeing its structured business, proprietary trading, and securities finance operations.

Global Investor/isf: How has your securities finance background shaped your approach as CEO? Prade: When I started in the securities finance industry the importance of building relationships was drummed into me. That is the kind of experience that I am looking to carry through by making other departments understand the importance of this. During my career I have seen traders sitting at their computers and attempting to beat the market by being brilliant but there are so many brilliant minds in banking...