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Instinet made the connection. Then came the hard part.
An electronic market is easy to imagine and hard to fill. Instinet’s long experiment reveals why trading technology needs people, counterparties, and a reason to connect.
Soeren Christensen and the business of making uncertainty behave
A partnership formed at Nomura became Finsoft, then Fincore. Across banking data and betting systems, Soeren Christensen built a career around a deceptively difficult task: getting complicated things to agree.
Henson Orser
Henson Orser is the founder and CEO of Soter Insure, a digital asset insurance carrier licensed in Bermuda that writes policies denominated in dollars, bitcoin and ether. After roughly three decades in traditional finance - 17-plus years at The Royal Bank of Scotland and senior markets roles at Nomura - he crossed into crypto as president and acting CEO of institutional custodian Komainu before founding Soter, which closed a Galaxy-led Series A in February 2025.