The founders of GBE Prime are Ben-Florian Henke and Rifat Sayim. They established GBE Prime at the end of 2015 as an institutional brand of the GBE Group. Ben began his career at an investment bank in Hamburg, Germany, and in 2012, he co-founded his own brokerage business with partner Rifat Sayim.
GBE Prime focuses on institutional business and has made significant progress in this area since its launch at the end of 2015. GBE Prime provides aggregated liquidity, utilizing bridging and aggregation software for low-latency connections and institutional-grade hosting solutions. It offers liquidity services for multiple asset classes in Equinix data centers in London, New York, and Tokyo. Through its German branch, it provides customer support services. GBE Prime aims to offer a trading environment for clients, continually developing and optimizing its products with the ambition to become one of the leading institutions in the industry.
The key members of GBE Prime include: Ben-Florian Henke, head of GBE Prime and one of the founders, Rifat Sayim, CEO of GBE brokers and co-founder of GBE Prime, Mahmoud Haj Mohamad, head of institutional sales responsible for the Middle East and North Africa region, Xiangyu Xu, a member of the institutional sales department responsible for the Asian region, and Danny Stadermann, head of the trading department at the German branch.
GBE Prime provides liquidity for the following markets:
- Forex Market: GBE Prime provides liquidity for over 100 forex currency pairs, including major pairs such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY, as well as minor and emerging market currency pairs.
- Index Market: GBE Prime offers liquidity for 23 indices, including global indices like the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, as well as regional and country-specific indices like the China A50, South African, and Indian indices.
- Commodity Market: GBE Prime provides liquidity for a variety of commodities, including energy products like oil and natural gas, agricultural products like sugar, cocoa, coffee, and orange juice, as well as metals and government bonds.
- Financial Derivatives Market: GBE Prime supports liquidity for traders to engage in trading financial derivatives such as CFDs, futures, and options contracts.
