Elias Sahyouni Joins GTN Middle East as Senior Trader, Derivatives

Elias Sahyouni Joins GTN Middle East as Senior Trader, Derivatives

Elias Sahyouni has joined GTN Middle East as Senior Trader, Derivatives. The move adds another step to his career in trading, investment technology, and financial markets.

In this role, Sahyouni will support GTN Middle East's derivatives trading work. His focus will include market execution, risk awareness, trading operations, and the needs of institutional clients. He will also help with derivative product flows, support trading strategies, and strengthen the firm's offering in advanced trading and investment solutions.

The appointment comes at a time when demand keeps rising for better trading infrastructure, broader multi-asset access, and tech-led investment tools across the Middle East and global markets. Derivatives remain important for institutional investors, brokers, and financial firms that want market access, hedging tools, and efficient exposure across asset classes.

Sahyouni's arrival also shows GTN Middle East's focus on combining market expertise with strong technology. As banks, brokers, and asset managers look for scalable trading and brokerage solutions, experienced traders play a key role in execution quality, product growth, and client trust.

The move also points to the Middle East's growing role in fintech, brokerage infrastructure, wealth management, and capital markets innovation. As regional firms expand their digital investment services, companies like GTN are well placed to support modern trading and investing needs.

About GTN

GTN is a global fintech infrastructure company that powers investment and trading solutions through a unified API-first architecture. It combines cloud-native technology with institutional experience to provide brokers, banks, asset managers, and fintech firms with brokerage infrastructure across 90+ markets and 8 asset classes through a single API.

The company helps partners build modern investing and trading experiences with features that include fractional trading, micro-portfolios, and $1 fractional bonds, along with full-service brokerage solutions. Its technology supports the full investment lifecycle, including digital onboarding, trading, operations, and post-trade settlement.

By acting as a single counterparty, GTN helps reduce technical and regulatory pressure for investment banks, brokerage firms, wealth managers, and fintech platforms. As a result, firms can expand their investment offerings without building complex infrastructure from scratch.

With Sahyouni now on board as Senior Trader, Derivatives, GTN Middle East is set to add more trading expertise to its regional team and keep growing its technology-led investment infrastructure offering.