Capital.com boosts executive team with new Head of Europe; continues its global growth trajectory

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 10 October 2022 - Capital.com, the high-growth trading and investing platform, today announced a new senior appointment to support its European business, while enhancing its global executive team. The new appointment underpins Capital.com’s ongoing growth and prioritisation of the European region as a whole. 

Alessandro Capuano has been appointed Head of Europe for Capital.com, to support its European expansion plans. Having spent 20 years in the European brokerage industry where he was most recently Head of Product at IG Europe, Alessandro has extensive experience building and leading businesses in Europe. Prior to that, Alessandro has held a number of senior positions including Head of Brokerage at Fineco Bank and Head of Europe at IG Group. 

Alessandro will be instrumental in driving Capital.com’s efforts to grow its presence in the European Union – a highly regulated market with a mature investor base. Alessandro will report to Kypros Zoumidou, Chief Commercial Officer at Capital.com.  

Commenting on the appointment, Peter Hetherington, Group CEO, Capital.com said: “As we continue to add to the team to support our growth ambitions, I am delighted to welcome Alessandro. I worked with him for many years and look forward to doing so again. With his extensive experience building teams and driving business across Europe, he will be instrumental to our global growth strategy and help us meet the exacting needs of our European client base.”

This appointment follows a successful Q3 for Capital.com, with the total number of user accounts on the platform growing by over one million. This brings Capital.com’s total number of registered users to over seven million for the first time. Over the same period, total trading volumes across the platform reached over US$249bn.