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2025: Sourcing Alpha
In this note whilst I set out some details around performance at a high level. It was a good performance…

Half Year Update – 2025
Q1 2025 Snapshot: Volatile Start, Shifting Market Leadership Markets were volatile in Q1, driven by US policy shifts, trade tensions,…

Investment Commentary – May 2025
May 2025 demonstrated the complex interplay of policy uncertainty, technological disruption, and regional divergence shaping global markets. While alternative investments…

2025: Scalability of Returns
May 2025 marked another important month for global markets as the US-China tariff de-escalation agreement took hold. The 90-day pause,…

2025: Navigating the Noise
April 2025 will undoubtedly be remembered as a month where market volatility reached fever levels, testing the resolve of even…

US Liberation Day
Trump’s Trade Tariffs – Priced in or not? See our thoughts below. Capital at risk.

2025: Radical Uncertainty
Market movements have been volatile as we progressed through the first three months of 2025. Return sentiment has moved away…

2025: Patient and Positive
At Binary Capital 2024 was a very positive year for return generation. We delivered across many areas: investment returns, strong…

Resilience of Hope
By Saftar Sarwar, Chief Investment Officer, Binary Capital October was a positive return month. Positivity on earnings data leading to…

Brownian Motion
By Saftar Sarwar, Chief Investment Officer, Binary Capital  In 2024 we continue the consistent good work we have been doing…

Exponentiality of Outcome.
By Saftar Sarwar, Chief Investment Officer, Binary Capital  We focus on positive return generation, at the same time aim for…

Ahead with Caution
By Saftar Sarwar, Chief Investment Officer, Binary Capital  We always focus on positive return generation. At the same time aim…
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John Ruskin

Chairman

John is an accomplished CEO with over 25 years of international leadership experience, having built and sold two self-funded businesses to large, listed companies, and run two major divisions of world-leading enterprises.

He co-founded, built, and sold Cube Financial Group (1997 – 2006), the world’s first independent brokerage agency, which grew to £120M revenues and >100 employees in UK and US. Acquired by Société Générale’s Fimat (Newedge). Further to this he led Newedge’s Futures, Options, Equities & Fixed Income business (2006 – 2013), maintaining stable trajectory throughout the financial crisis, and growing the business to €200M revenues and 550 salespeople in eight markets.

John then co-founded, grew and sold Coex Partners Group (2014 – 2018), growing to £11M revenues in three years with an international client base of hedge funds and asset managers in UK, France, and US. Acquired by TP ICAP.

After his exit from Coex Partners he headed Agency Execution for TP ICAP (2018 – 2022), one of four divisions of the world’s largest Interdealer Broker, leading organic and acquisitive growth to increase revenues from £30M to £320M in four years. John also directed integration and strategic refocus of Liquidnet into TP ICAP (2021 – 2022), as a key member of the leadership team that closed $600M acquisition of Liquidnet in 2021 embedding a new vision, strategy, and roadmap for the business to ensure sustainable growth.

John is hugely passionate about social mobility, having worked with schools, community centres, social enterprise clubs, and the Metropolitan Police on multiple initiatives, and mentored young people through BTEC and A levels. He is a family magistrate.