e-Forex Interview : Having coffee with a true FX visionary

First Published in e-Forex Magazine April 2011

Larry Levy meets up with Dr. Richard Olsen

Its Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 on the shores of Lake Zurich and a crisp winters morning. Im on my way for a 9:15am slot with Richard Olsen, co-founder of OANDA Corporation. As I rush out of the train at Zurichs Hauptbahnhof, I call to say I am running a little late.
Take your time, Richard reassures me like an old friend. I am sure to be busy in the meantime. I immediately feel much less guilty and somewhat at ease, even more eager to meet Richard Olsen now.
Just a short tram ride from Zurichs Paradeplatz and Bahnhofstrasse I arrive at Olsen Ltd, sublimely nestled on the shores of Lake Zurich. Olsen Ltd is located half in a black steel and glass building and half in an attractive old red and yellow bricked mill connected by a glass footbridge.
Waiting for me and beaming is the Chairman of one of the worlds most successful retail forex brokers, OANDA. I feel immediately at ease. A palpable sense of understatement pervades this place, as if proceeding humbly. The Chairman appears and ushers me across the glass bridge into the old mill building into a meeting room that is more old art school than forex broker and fund establishment. Richard scurries out to fetch me a coffee and I am immediately impressed with a sense of an intellectual, cerebral world here, far away from places like Paradeplatz, Wall Street and the Square Mile yet quietly rather powerful. Ive lived in within a few blocks of here all my life, states Richard.
We begin our interview and I have much to learn about the many and varied activities taking place within Olsen Ltd.

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