Tagged: clear street

December 6, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Street, a cloud-native financial technology firm on a mission to enhance the brokerage ecosystem, announced the launch of Clear Street UK, following recent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval. Clear Street UK was reportedly approved as a Category 1, Ring-dealing member by the London Metal… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Street, a cloud-native financial technology firm on a mission to modernize the brokerage ecosystem, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Instinet’s Fox River algorithmic trading business. Fox River provides a comprehensive “suite of algorithmic execution solutions in US and Canadian equities.” These… Read More

December 18, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At Clear Street, they’re enabling a technology-first experience for prime brokerage via their  cloud-based platform. In 2019, Clear Street began servicing prime brokerage clients in U.S. equities and options “on their proprietary clearing, settlement, and custody platform.” Since then, Clear Street have reportedly “added execution,… Read More

October 29, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CenterPoint, the active trading division of New York-based independent prime broker Clear Street LLC, announced that its products and services are available in Canada through Clear Street Canada Inc. CenterPoint’s products, services, and partnerships “include advanced routing and execution, real-time access to market data feeds,… Read More

September 23, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Clear Street, a New York-based independent prime broker, this week appointed Jonathan “Jon” Daplyn as chief information officer and Hari Godbole as managing director and vice president of engineering. The moves are effective immediately. Daplyn leads Clear Street’s 150 technologists and reports to Chris Pento, Clear Street’s co-founder and chief executive officer…. Read More

September 15, 2023 @ 5:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  According to Insights Distilled’s recent State of Enterprise Tech report, API-first development is streamlining software, with respondents claiming they are ready to start utilizing APIs at scale, with 43% naming it a top priority for 2023. Additionally, a survey from Insight Partners’ portfolio company… Read More

July 15, 2023 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Street, a New York-based independent prime broker, announced that it intends to enter the futures clearing market with the acquisition of React Consulting Services, LLC and its proprietary, cloud-native futures clearing platform, BASIS. BASIS will be integrated “into Clear Street’s existing cloud-native clearing, settlement,… Read More

June 24, 2023 @ 6:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Street, an independent, non-bank prime broker, has reportedly hired Kevin McCarthy as the firm’s first Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Clearing. McCarthy will “report to Clear Street Co-Founder and CEO Chris Pento and oversee the firm’s clearing services for Market Makers, while increasing… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Lending market is large — “with more than $2.7 trillion in assets on loan as of 2021 and revenue of $5.45 billion, an increase of 19% year over year,” according to an update shared with CI. Its major function of “facilitating lending and… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Street, a Fintech building better access to capital markets, announced the completion of a $165 million Series B round “to accelerate launching its platform.” The investment round was led by Prysm Capital, LLC, a growth equity firm that partners with disruptive companies in the… Read More