Elias Sahyouni has joined GTN Middle East as Senior Trader – Derivatives, marking a new step in his career within trading, investment technology, and financial markets.
In his new role, Sahyouni is expected to support GTN Middle East’s derivatives trading activities, working across market execution, risk awareness, trading operations, and institutional client requirements. His responsibilities will likely include supporting derivative product flows, contributing to trading strategies, and helping strengthen the firm’s capabilities across sophisticated investment and trading solutions.
The appointment comes as demand continues to grow for advanced trading infrastructure, multi-asset access, and technology-driven investment solutions across the Middle East and global markets. Derivatives remain an important area for institutional investors, brokers, and financial firms seeking efficient exposure, hedging tools, and market access across asset classes.
Sahyouni’s move to GTN Middle East highlights the company’s continued focus on building strong market expertise alongside its technology infrastructure. As financial institutions increasingly look for scalable trading and brokerage solutions, experienced trading professionals play a key role in supporting execution quality, product development, and client confidence.
His appointment also reflects the growing importance of the Middle East as a hub for fintech, brokerage infrastructure, wealth management, and capital markets innovation. With regional investors and financial institutions expanding their digital investment offerings, firms such as GTN are positioned to support the next generation of trading and investment experiences.
About GTN
GTN is a global fintech infrastructure company powering investment and trading solutions through a unified API-first architecture. The company combines cloud-native technology with deep institutional expertise to provide brokers, banks, asset managers, and fintech firms with brokerage infrastructure across 90+ markets and 8 asset classes through a single API.
GTN enables its partners to build modern investing and trading experiences by supporting a wide range of capabilities, from fractional trading and micro-portfolios, including $1 fractional bonds, to full-service brokerage solutions. Its technology helps automate the investment lifecycle, covering areas such as digital onboarding, trading, operations, and post-trade settlement.
By acting as a single counterparty, GTN helps reduce technical and regulatory burdens for investment banks, brokerage firms, wealth management companies, and fintech platforms. This allows financial institutions to scale their investment offerings without having to build complex technology infrastructure from scratch.
With Sahyouni joining as Senior Trader – Derivatives, GTN Middle East is positioned to further strengthen its trading expertise and support its mission of delivering scalable, technology-led investment infrastructure to partners across the region and beyond.
