{"id":5020,"date":"2023-07-30T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T06:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/07\/30\/aquis-exchange-boss-alasdair-haynes-is-a-markets-maverick\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T06:06:55","slug":"aquis-exchange-boss-alasdair-haynes-is-a-markets-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/aquis-exchange-boss-alasdair-haynes-is-a-markets-maverick\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquis Exchange boss Alasdair Haynes is a markets maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alasdair Haynes still receives calls from time to time saying: ‘I saw you on TV.’ Nearly 40 years ago he was dancing in the background of Top of the Pops when Frankie Goes to Hollywood performed Relax \u2013 one of the most controversial pop songs ever. It seems like an unconventional route to Haynes’s current job.<\/p>\n
Today, age 63 \u2013 and having survived Covid and cancer \u2013 he leads Aquis Exchange. Aquis operates a junior stock market aiming to challenge the might of the 300-year-old London Stock Exchange \u2013 or more specifically, its Alternative Investment Market (AIM) for smaller companies.<\/p>\n
It may be less rock’n’roll than Top of the Pops, but Haynes is trying to make shares ‘sexy’. He wants some of the millions of people prepared to plough their money into the crypto craze to look at investing in stocks and shares, with a platform that makes it attractive for them to do so.<\/p>\n
Haynes was in his early twenties and already working his way up the ladder as a foreign exchange dealer at Morgan Grenfell when he appeared on Top of the Pops in 1984. He had a relative who was a floor manager on the BBC TV show \u2013 which was essential viewing for millions of pop fans.<\/p>\n
‘I got to dance on quite a few shows,’ Haynes recalls. ‘But Relax was played live and afterwards banned so that video clip has become an iconic moment for Eighties music. Unfortunately, the clip is played regularly and from time to time I still get calls saying I saw you on TV.’<\/p>\n