Saxo Invites Financial Industry to Join Sport Initiative 'Ride Like a Pro'

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LONDON, Nov. 18, 2014 / PRN=KYODO JBN/ --

    SaxoSport Program Confirms Bank's Long term Commitment to Sporting

Excellence and Healthy Living  

    Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist,

announces the launch of SaxoSport, a global concept with transnational VIP

sport clubs in Europe and Asia, aimed at promoting peer-to-peer networking

opportunities and the bank's passion for performance.

    The inaugural year of SaxoSport will feature Saxo's 'Ride Like A Pro'

project where existing and potential clients will be given the opportunity to

live and train like a Tinkoff-Saxo cycling professional, learning everything

from the anatomy of the bike and the body to training like the Tinkoff-Saxo

team. The launch of  'Ride Like A Pro' coincides with six-time Grand Tour

Winner Alberto Contador and Team Manager Bjarne Riis of Tinkoff-Saxo visit to

Saxo's offices in three cities including Zurich, London and Copenhagen as part

of a road trip marking the end of the 2014 season.

    In London, Alberto Contador and Bjarne Riis will visit Dulwich College, an

academically selective independent boys' school in south London situated in

beautiful, semi-rural surroundings and made famous by the Harry Potter movies.

Contador and Riis will recount their journey into the world of professional

cycling and join clients and friends of the bank for a bike ride at the Herne

Hill Velodrome - the only remaining 1948 Olympic venue still in use today.

    The 'Ride Like A Pro' program features:

    Peer-to-peer network for financial industry insiders with passion for

    performance and healthy living;

    Intensive personalized training towards personal goals;

    High frequency group training sessions with supervision;

    Interactions with World Tour Team Tinkoff-Saxo;

    Opportunity to complete stages of Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse and

    Vuelta a Espana right before watching the professionals go through the     

    same challenges.

    Commenting on the new project, Matteo Cassina, Head of all Business Lines

at Saxo Bank said:

    "Saxo has been supporting the team for the past seven seasons. Our

employees fully embrace our long-standing support of sporting excellence and

healthy living and we are now ready to take our commitment to the next level

with SaxoSport.

    "We encourage anyone from smaller asset managers, emerging managers, hedge

funds, money managers, family offices and investors in general with a passion

for cycling, competition and performance to get involved in our new 'Ride Like

A Pro' project and seize this once in a lifetime opportunity."

    Selection of participants for the 'Ride Like A Pro' project will take place

over the next months. The 30 lucky riders will be selected to participate over

a 3-6 month period in each club, culminating by completing World Tour stages in

Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse or Vuelta a Espana.

    About Saxo Bank  

    Saxo Bank is an online multi-asset trading

[http://www.saxobank.com/forex?csref=b1744_Link_boilerplate_pressrelease ] and

investment specialist, offering private investors and institutional clients a

complete set of tools for their trading and investment strategies. Its

financial community portal, TradingFloor.com [https://www.tradingfloor.com ], is

the first multi-asset social trading platform. A fully licensed and regulated

European bank, Saxo Bank enables clients to trade FX, CFDs, ETFs, Stocks,

Futures, Options and other derivatives on our award-winning SaxoTrader

platform, accessible on PCs

[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-platforms/saxotrader ], tablets

[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-platforms/saxowebtrader ] or smartphones

[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-platforms/saxotrader-apps ] through a single

account and available in more than 20 languages. The platform is white-labelled

by more than 100 major financial institutions worldwide. Saxo Bank also offers

professional portfolio and fund management as well as traditional banking

services through Saxo Privatbank. Founded in 1992, Saxo Bank is headquartered

in Copenhagen and has offices in 26 countries throughout Europe, Asia, the

Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Australia.

    SOURCE: Saxo Bank