Our Team

In her duties as Chief Compliance Officer, Sue Bannon is responsible for all CFTC, NFA, and exchange related Compliance. Ms. Bannon also assists Straits Guaranteed introducing Brokers with their regulatory requirements. Ms. Bannon has been in the financial markets and trading industry for over 30 years. In her early career, she was an equity options market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, including several years as a manager for floor trading groups.  Ms. Bannon spent over 7 years in the risk department at Advantage Futures, before moving into an Internal Controls position at the same firm for 3 years. In Internal Controls, Ms. Bannon’s responsibilities included written documentation of the firm’s policies and procedures to ensure all regulatory requirements were followed as well as testing them to ensure compliance and effectiveness of the procedures. Ms. Bannon joined Straits in 2019 as a Compliance Analyst and was later promoted to Compliance Manager. Ms. Bannon holds both the Charted Financial Analyst and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts designation.