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Oz banking woes for Caxton FX

by Catherine Woods - Tuesday, 7th October 2008 -

Oz banking woes for Caxton FX

Caxton FX expanded into Australia as a way of retaining a top employee although chief executive Rupert Lee-Browne says the foreign exchange firm hadn’t banked on the tough regulatory and finance system Down Under.

Lee-Browne employs 27 people across two offices in London and Melbourne. “One of our first employees is a Melburnian,” Lee-Browne says, “and he came to me and said ‘I’ve found my English wife, I’m resigning and going home’. I didn’t want to lose him so got him to set up in Australia for us.”

But it wasn’t that easy to launch an operation in the Victorian capital. Lee-Browne says they soon found out the regulatory and banking environment in Australia is far tougher than in the UK.

He says: “One of the challenges was finding an Australian bank that matched our requirements and standards. As it now happens, we’ve found a way of using our British bankers. We now use RBS on a global basis.”

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