Matthew Cohen is the co-founder and chief executive of Provable Markets, a New York fintech running Aurora, an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System for securities lending. After 15 years trading equity finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jefferies, and Nomura, Cohen partnered with cryptographer Thomer Gil in 2020 to apply secure multi-party computation to a market that had run for decades on phone calls, spreadsheets, and information leakage. In 2022 Provable ran the first securities lending transaction cleared through DTCC's SFT service. In May 2024 the company raised an $8M Series A led by Dialectic Capital Management.
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.