OUR TEAM

Nirup Ramalingam

CEO

Nirup Ramalingam

Spearheaded institutional crypto trading platform at CME owned EBS

Track record of creating products from ground up for low latency trading

Managed CME's SEF and MTF platforms for FX and IRS derivatives

Chris Soriano

CCO

Chris Soriano

Built FX and crypto products at banks and venues

Transformed IDB NDF trading from Voice to Electronically driven

Wide-ranging relationship over 25 years at HFTs, HFs and tradFi

Mike Merold

CTO

Mike Merold

25 years experience as developer and managing IT teams

Built credit systems for FX venues and part of initial CLS launch

Holds 15 patents in credit / limit utilization for low latency trading systems

All three founders worked together at CME owned EBS and BrokerTec, which are the pre-eminent interdealer low-latency execution venues for HFTs and banks to trade FX and fixed income products.

Nirup managed the largest OTC derivatives regulated exchange, NEX SEF, for all major asset classes, and dealt with regulators from major jurisdictions. He was also responsible for product strategy for interest rate swaps and US treasuries at BrokerTec.

Chris pioneered high frequency electronic execution for FX derivatives at EBS, which became the benchmark for Asian EM NDFs. He was previously a FX trader at Natwest and has relationships with traders across all segment.

Mike created the original solution to manage settlement risk, FX NET, and involved in its successor CLS. He has built low latency venues for FX and fixed income from which he developed several new novel concepts put into practice.