Saxo Joins Forces with JustGiving to Support the Alberto Contador Foundation

Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Saxo Bank, the online
multi-asset trading and investment specialist, today announces a
major partnership with JustGiving, the global online social platform
for giving. The partnership will support the fundraising efforts of
the Alberto Contador Foundation, a charity set up by Alberto
Contador, the professional cyclist and seven times Grand Tour winner.

The partnership with JustGiving, which has enabled $3billion in
donations since its inception in 2001, will complement Saxo Bank's
existing fundraising efforts. By directing traffic from the bank's
social trading website, TradingFloor.com, to a dedicated JustGiving
page, traders, cycling enthusiasts and other visitors can make direct
donations to the foundation.

The foundation's main aim is to promote stroke awareness. The cause
is very personal to Contador. While competing in 2004, the rider
suffered a haemorrhagic stroke, from which he has now fully
recovered. Funds raised from the partnership with JustGiving will be
used towards initiatives such as the distribution of bicycles in
disadvantaged areas, better neurological care for stroke patients and
educational programmes promoting the health benefits of cycling.

Zarine Kharas, CEO and co-founder of JustGiving, said, "We're
delighted to be partnering with Saxo Bank to harness the power and
generosity of the users of tradingfloor.com to raise money for the
Alberto Contador Foundation."

Matteo Cassina, Executive Vice President at Saxo Bank, said, "I am
thrilled by our partnership with JustGiving and the opportunity to
combine both our digitally disruptive platforms to support a great
cause. We have a long and proud history of supporting sport and hope
that the spirit of competition and performance - which characterises
both traders and cyclists - can deliver great results for the
Foundation."

Alberto Contador, rider in the Tinkoff-Saxo professional cycling
team, said, "Ever since I suffered a stroke during the Tour of
Asturias in 2004, raising awareness that they are preventable has
become a personal goal of mine. Having the help of Saxo Bank is
fantastic for my foundation. The bank has supported me in my
professional endeavours, and now help for the success of the
foundation is a selfless initiative from an organisation
intrinsically important to the sport of cycling."

In addition to the partnership with JustGiving, Saxo Bank is running
Trade Like A Pro, a competition on Saxo Bank's social trading site
TradingFloor.com, designed specifically for the riders of the
Tinkoff-Saxo professional cycling team of which Alberto is part. The
majority of the proceeds from the competition will benefit the
Alberto Contador Foundation.

About Saxo Bank 

Saxo Bank is an online multi-asset trading [http://www.saxobank.com ]
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 both our
award-winning SaxoTrader [http://www.saxobank.com/saxotrader ] and
newly launched SaxoTraderGO [http://www.saxobank.com/saxotrader-go ]
platform, accessible on PCs, tablets or smartphones 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.

About JustGiving 

Voted Best Giving Platform by the charity members of the Institute of
Fundraising in 2014 and 2015, JustGiving is the world's social
platform for giving, enabling over 24 million people across 164
countries to raise more than $3 billion since 2001. As a
tech-for-good company, JustGiving re-invests all its profits into the
development of world-class technology and innovative tools to fulfil
its mission to connect people with the causes they care about.

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