The Meaning of Oanda

[scorpion]

Do you know what Oanda mean? In fact it's correct to write as OandA which is Olsen and Associates. Richard B. Olsen is of course the founder of OandA.com and OlsenData.com. [Edited] In Dutch, O&A is Olsen & Actien Gesellschaft.

Ricard Olsen is the founder of Olsen & Assocites. He received a Licentiate in Law from the University of Zurich (1979), a Masters in Economics from Oxford University (1980) and a Ph.D. in Law (1981). From 1983 to 1985, he worked at Bank Julius Baer, Zurich, as Assistant Legal Advisor, a member of the research team and a froeign exchange dealer. In 1985, Dr. Olsen founded O&A and became its Chief Executive Officer.

[scorpion]

He must like drawing or something. He doesn't care how they look. Or the maybe the drawings on his whiteboard are just his children's.

[scorpion]

This guy, Santosh Taranath, is the programmer of FxTrade platform. Honestly, i'm no whiter than him.

[Edited] Santosh apparently works for Olsen Data and Olsen India division only. He is not in FxTrade developers team.

[scorpion]

Office

[Edited] This is O&A (OandA) office in India while O&A headquater is in Switzerland.

[gazuz]

Scorpion, did you visit them and take pictures or something? That's pretty interesting to see two small guys behind such a big name...

[stumm]

Scorpion,

Most of the information you post is incorrect and inaccurate. Firstly, I have never seen, and do not know the person you depict as "the programmer of FXTrade", and I can assure you I personally know everyone who has ever worked on FXTrade. Secondly, I have never seen the "office" you depict, and I can assure you that it is not an OANDA office, since I know all of them. Finally, to give informed readers more accurate information about OANDA, please see http://fxtrade.oanda.com/about/ and regarding the name OANDA, please see http://fxtrade.oanda.com/about/oandathename.shtml

[scorpion]

Olsen & Associates is mentioned in http://www.oanda.com/site/oanda/bod.shtml

Ricard Olsen registered Oanda as O&A. The parent company is O&A. Since you cannot register website as O&A.com, you will have to use OandA.com. The page OandaTheName.shtml is written as a proposal to add Oanda in dictionary meaning fair currency trading.

Originally Posted by bottom of the page

So, where OANDA didn’t mean anything before, 15 years later, it’s now synonymous with forex, currencies, trust, fairness, innovation…

The office is based in India. But maybe you're right that Santosh is not fxtrade programmer as he works primary under Olsen Data, but everything else is accurate.

[scorpion]

Got an email from Santosh:

Originally Posted by Santosh

Hi Neo,

I work for Olsen-India, and take projects for OlsenData also. I have never worked for any project of oanda.com, including FxTrade.

Regards.

Santosh