Investors holding Capital.com CFD accounts learned this week that the platform has appointed a new Capital.com VP IT Operations in Mariia Erokhina, a security specialist who joins from Pepperstone as the broker accelerates a simultaneous push into AI-assisted trading and a full brand overhaul.
From security governance to IT operations leadership
Erokhina’s appointment was announced via a LinkedIn post on Monday. She spent over two years at Pepperstone’s Cyprus operation, most recently as General Manager for Information Security and Compliance, where she built the firm’s security governance framework and aligned internal processes with regulatory expectations. Before that she served as Head of IT Security at Pepperstone, standardising security and governance practices across the group’s global operations.
Before Pepperstone, she was Chief Information Security Officer at Sumsub for more than two years, building its information security function from scratch across governance, application security, and security operations. She also ran multiple external assurance and compliance programmes during that period. Earlier in her career she spent around three years at Citi as a Senior Business Information Security Officer, focused on risk and control frameworks in a regulated banking environment.
The move into an IT operations role, rather than a pure security position, reflects the breadth of infrastructure challenge Capital.com now faces as it layers AI tooling onto a platform that already processes substantial volumes. According to Capital.com’s press releases, the platform handled $1.27 trillion in client trading volume in Q1 2026 and $3.42 trillion across full-year 2025.
Capital.com VP IT Operations hire arrives mid-product transformation
Erokhina’s arrival coincides with two of the largest product changes Capital.com has made in recent years. The first is a redesigned mobile app, available globally across iOS and Android from May 2026 and built, in the company’s own words, around ‘a single commitment: helping clients strive towards better decisions.’ The updated app and brand identity were formally announced on 1 June 2026. The rebrand introduces a new logo featuring a design element described by the company as ‘The Lens,’ applied consistently as a framing device intended to bring relevant information into focus, according to FX News Group.
The second change is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server plugin, a free, open-source tool that connects AI assistants (such as Codex, Claude Desktop, and Cursor) directly to a trader’s Capital.com account. According to the Zawya press release, the plugin surfaces live market data, open positions, portfolio exposure, historical prices, and aggregated client sentiment inside whatever AI environment a trader is already using. It is currently available to clients in the MENA region.
Chief Product Officer Sasha Gubochkin described having to switch between platforms to execute trades as a ‘structural problem’ and said the MCP integration is designed to ‘help close that gap, not to make trading faster, but to make the path from research to decision more coherent,’ according to Finance Magnates.
MENA is a commercially meaningful focus for this rollout. Capital.com’s own data shows the UAE alone accounted for 71.7% of all MENA trading volumes in H1 2025. Tarik Chebib, Capital.com’s CEO for the MENA region, noted that the UAE has been deliberate about building infrastructure for AI adoption, which shapes why the MCP launch was directed at that market first.
What retail investors should understand about the MCP tool
The MCP plugin is a free tool, but it is worth understanding its boundaries. Capital.com does not control the AI environments the plugin connects to, so traders should review the data and privacy terms of whichever AI assistant they choose to use, as the Zawya press release makes clear. Capital.com also states it is not legally liable for the behaviour of connected AI models, and the integration does not reduce the risks associated with CFD trading, according to Good Money Guide.
MENA clients using the plugin do so through a CMA-regulated platform, with the same client protections that apply elsewhere on Capital.com’s service, as FX News Group reported.
For UK-based retail investors watching the CFD broker space, the combination of a security-focused IT hire, a rebuilt app emphasising decision quality over speed, and an AI connectivity layer suggests Capital.com’s near-term product roadmap centres on infrastructure resilience rather than adding new instruments. The key question is whether the MCP server expands beyond MENA, and on what regulatory timeline.
