smartTrade Technologies has appointed Tom Luker as Head of Corporate Development to support the company’s goal of building a fully integrated front-office trading and payments ecosystem.
Luker joins the Executive Leadership Team and will oversee global M&A and strategic investments. He will report directly to Co-Founder and CEO David Vincent.
The company said the hire accelerates its strategy of creating an end-to-end suite that allows clients to monetise flows, reduce risk and expand market share across trading and payments activities.
The plan has been advancing through the integration of kACE, the FX and interest rate derivatives platform acquired in late 2025. smartTrade said the integration is ahead of schedule across its LiquidityFX and Commercial Banking and Payments solutions.
Vincent believes Luker’s arrival strengthens smartTrade’s long-term ambitions. “Our goal is to create the most robust, integrated front-office ecosystem in the market,” he commented. “The success we are seeing with the kACE integration proves the appetite for our unified cross-asset payments and trading solutions.”
Luker brings 15 years of experience across financial market infrastructure, data and technology. His background includes nearly a decade at the London Stock Exchange Group, where he served as Co-Head of Corporate Development. He joins from Triple Private Equity, where he led software and data investments.
“smartTrade has established itself as a clear innovator in trading and payments technology,” Luker stated. He added that the momentum from the kACE acquisition provides a strong foundation for future expansion.
