Dear Bicarus,

I deliberately rarely reply to on-line forum messages. I in fact have only been directed to your post yesterday and have become a member just in order to respond. My name is Christian Dove - and I am the person you have made comments about. Of course people are free to have opinions and to air those opinions after research. However - when quotes are made which are inaccurate and bring my integrity in to question then I feel it my right to rebut.

I notice you work for Nomura Singapore. I also used to work for Nomura in London, and am very proud of my time there. In my time with Nomura Treasury I worked everyday with the original founder of Nomura Singapore and original head of the FX desk in Nomura Singapore - a very close friend and colleague of mine. I designed and implemented the tri-party repo product for Nomura. If you want to challenge my reputation - you may chose to ask members of your board in Japan.

It is true that I founded Vantage FX - the actual chronology is that I started my own funds management business Enfinium Pty Ltd. I purchased the company Vantage FX (at the time a very small whitelabel of Go Markets) in to the company Enfinium - and subsequently built the business. As part of the overall deal I had agreed on a sale of the business back to the owners of Go Markets (who used a vehicle in Hong Kong they had set up also named Enfinium).

During my time owning and working for Enfinium (owner of Vantage at that time) there was no issues with ASIC. What you refer to happened sometime after my involvement with the company - and it is inaccurate to associate such comments to my name and reputation.
Also the sale of Vantage to MXT Global was some years after my involvement - I don't even know who they are.

You are then correct that I founded Synergy FX. A business that I am very proud of. I owned and operated that business for over ten years before selling it to ACY Securities as you noted. I personally feel that growing a company from scratch to a multi million dollar business over the course of over ten years and then selling at a time that made the best sense for the shareholders, does not come under the definition of "flipping". I'm keen to know what your definition of flipping a company is? Have you owned and operated businesses?

I'm excited to have been asked back by ACY to run the brand Synergy Markets.

This is a Vantage FX discussion forum. In my opinion all of the licenced providers in Australia are great businesses - and clients should have confidence to open accounts and trade via them.

Christian Dove