# Brock Arnason

> Brock Arnason is the founder and CEO of Droit, a New York regtech firm that turns the live text of financial regulation into auditable, machine-readable logic - a discipline it calls computational law. A Cornell-trained engineering physicist and former Morgan Stanley fixed-income e-commerce executive, he started Droit in 2012 to solve the Dodd-Frank derivatives mess from the inside. Droit's Adept platform now answers 'can I trade this?' and reports trades for clients including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and UBS, and in 2025 the company was acquired by capital-markets technology giant FIS.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Droit
- **Organizations:** Droit (Droit Financial Technologies), Morgan Stanley (former), FIS (parent company)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** M.Eng. and B.Sc. in Engineering Physics, Cornell University, MBA, University of Chicago
- **Known for:** Founded and scaled Droit to roughly 400 employees serving top-tier global banks, Pioneered 'computational law' - patented technology converting live regulatory text into auditable logic models, Built a consensus regulatory model adopted by major sell-side and buy-side firms including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and UBS

## Career timeline

- **pre-2012** — Executive Director of Fixed Income E-Commerce at Morgan Stanley; global product manager of Matrix client portal; led SEF strategy and Dodd-Frank compliance programs
- **2012** — Founded Droit in New York to address Dodd-Frank OTC derivatives rules
- **2021** — Closed $16M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo, with Pivot Investment Partners and DRW
- **2023** — Closed $23M Series B led by Pivot Investment Partners and UBS Next, with Goldman Sachs
- **2025** — Droit adds 'Explore Mode' to its Adept platform
- **2025** — Droit acquired by FIS, embedding computational law in FIS's compliance and post-trade platform

## Achievements

- Founded and scaled Droit to roughly 400 employees serving top-tier global banks
- Pioneered 'computational law' - patented technology converting live regulatory text into auditable logic models
- Built a consensus regulatory model adopted by major sell-side and buy-side firms including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and UBS
- Raised more than $39M in disclosed venture funding across Series A and B rounds
- Led Droit to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27017 certifications
- Achieved acquisition by FIS, a capital-markets technology provider serving more than 20,000 clients

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Droit added 'Explore Mode' to its Adept regulatory decision-making platform
- **2025** — Droit acquired by FIS; Arnason says the deal will scale computational law across the trade lifecycle

## Links

- Website: https://droit.tech
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brock-arnason-843b18
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhcUBfLu2A

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Last updated: 2026-06-14