Licensed Trading Officer

The Licensed Trading Officer is one of the company's accredited representatives before the Iraq Securities Commission and the Iraq Stock Exchange: the person formally authorised to receive and execute client orders and to answer for the trading department's conduct. The role runs the daily trading desk for the local market and the order flow routed to the international broker, and makes sure every order is handled in line with the regulations, the exchange rules and the company's procedures.

Order handling and execution

•      Receive, validate and execute client buy and sell orders on the Iraq Stock Exchange through the exchange trading system, within each client's approved limits and account status.

•      Monitor orders routed electronically to the international broker, follow up on rejected or partially filled orders, and handle exceptions with the broker's operations team.

•      Perform pre-trade checks: client identity and account status, available cash or securities, trading restrictions, and any flags raised by compliance or AML.

•      Keep an accurate, time-stamped record of every order, amendment, cancellation and execution, as required by the regulations and the company's record-keeping procedures.

Settlement, reconciliation and market operations

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