# Baton Systems

> Baton Systems is a post-trade infrastructure company that uses a shared permissioned ledger to give banks real-time control over collateral, payments and FX settlement. Its Core platform connects to legacy systems without ripping them out, and is already used by some of the largest banks in the world to move trillions of dollars with bank-grade safety in minutes instead of days.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Fremont, California, United States
- **Founders:** Arjun Jayaram (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~140 employees
- **Products:** Core-Payments, Core-Collateral, Core-FX, Core Platform
- **Notable:** Risk.net Fintech Start-up of the Year, Best Distributed Ledger Technology Project, Sell-Side Technology Awards, Best Post-Trade Services Provider, FX Week e-FX Awards

## Products & services

- **Core-Payments** — Real-time payment control with validation, automated netting, affirmations and settlement splitting across correspondent banks, CSDs and tokenised asset networks.
- **Core-Collateral** — Automated collateral management with real-time balance data, eligibility schedules and two-way venue connectivity for CCPs and tri-party agents.
- **Core-FX** — PvP FX settlement on a shared permissioned ledger, with continuous automated netting and on-demand gross, net or split settlement across major and emerging currencies.
- **Core Platform** — The underlying shared permissioned ledger and workflow engine that connects legacy bank systems to modern post-trade rails.

## Achievements

- Risk.net Fintech Start-up of the Year
- Best Distributed Ledger Technology Project, Sell-Side Technology Awards
- Best Post-Trade Services Provider, FX Week e-FX Awards
- Best Payment and Settlement Provider, Central Banking Fintech and Regtech Global Awards
- Powered the world's first interbank riskless FX settlement (2018)
- Over $3 trillion in cleared and OTC market settlements processed

## Latest updates

- **2024-04** — Baton and Partior expand FX settlement network with tokenised commercial bank funds and 24/7 access.
- **2023-09** — Core-Collateral integrated into J.P. Morgan's CCP Margin Exchange (CCPMx).
- **2022-11** — Won 'Best New Technology Introduced Over The Last 12 Months - Trading, Risk and Compliance' at the American Financial Technology Awards.

## Links

- Website: https://batonsystems.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/batonsystems
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/batonsystems

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