{"id":707804,"date":"2023-07-31T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=707804"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:04:41","slug":"business-talk-a2x-ceo-kevin-brady-on-the-exchanges-record-breaking-trading-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/707804\/business-talk-a2x-ceo-kevin-brady-on-the-exchanges-record-breaking-trading-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 A2X CEO Kevin Brady on the exchange\u2019s record-breaking trading volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Michael Avery is joined by A2X CEO Kevin Brady to discuss the exchange\u2019s outstanding trading performance in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brady is the co-founder and CEO of the A2X Markets stock exchange and has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He previously served as a Director and the Head of Equity Trading at Barnard Jacobs Mellet for over six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brady then joined Investec Institutional Securities as the Head of Equity for its Dealing Desk, and became the company&#8217;s Managing Director \u2013 a role he served in for over nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, Brady founded the A2X Markets stock exchange as a competitor and alternative to the JSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform went live in 2017 and has since become one of the top stock exchanges in South Africa, with 169 listed companies and a total market cap exceeding R9 trillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Business Talk with Kevin Brady<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Brady talks about A2X\u2019s incredible growth in 2023 \u2013 including a significant increase in trade volumes, trade count, and number of listings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explains how the exchange is attracting these listings and trades, and achieving growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brady then talks about A2X\u2019s role in empowering retail investors and facilitating their participation in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He discusses A2X\u2019s biggest challenges and suggests changes in the regulatory landscape that would benefit the entire stock exchange ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Brady unpacks A2X\u2019s plans and tells viewers to look out for exciting new developments from the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full Business Talk interview with A2X CEO Kevin Brady is embedded below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bvy9Ecsm_L8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Business Talk, A2X CEO Kevin Brady discusses the exchange\u2019s outstanding trading performance in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":707806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[12410],"class_list":["post-707804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-a2x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707808,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707804\/revisions\/707808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}