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Kudo Hires Former FunderPro Affiliates Head to Run Prop Trading Arm
Kudo named Felice Digennaro head of Kudo Funded, its prop trading arm. He most recently led affiliate partnerships at FunderPro. Launched in September 2025, Kudo Funded offers challenge-based accounts of up to $200,000 and says it has issued more than 5,000 funded accounts and paid traders over $1.2 million.
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What happened
Kudo named Felice Digennaro head of Kudo Funded, its prop trading arm. He most recently led affiliate partnerships at FunderPro. Launched in September 2025, Kudo Funded offers challenge-based accounts of up to $200,000 and says it has issued more than 5,000 funded accounts and paid traders over $1.2 million.
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Global impact / market context
Putting an affiliate-marketing specialist in charge may signal that Kudo wants to grow Kudo Funded through partner relationships and campaigns. If that approach brings in more traders, the unit could expand, but the article provides no targets or details on how growth would affect costs or revenue.
Analyst inference
Kudo operates a CFD brokerage, while Kudo Funded says its trading takes place in a simulated environment using virtual funds. That distinction matters: the article describes a challenge-based funded account business, not evidence that customer trades in this unit are placed with real money in financial markets.
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What to watch
- Watch for Kudo to describe Digennaro’s plans, including whether affiliate partnerships or campaigns will be used to attract more traders to Kudo Funded. Analyst inference
- Look for updates to account offerings or published totals for funded accounts and trader payments, which could show whether the unit is expanding. Analyst inference
- Check whether Kudo reports the unit’s costs or revenue; the article gives account and payment totals but no financial results for Kudo Funded. Analyst inference