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Sharegain Put the $3 Trillion Lending Desk in a Box
The London fintech turned a clubby, manual corner of capital markets into software that brokers and banks can switch on for ordinary investors. The trick was not a shinier trading screen - it was rebuilding the plumbing, pricing it only when assets actually lend, and then teaching clients how to get customers to opt in.
Provable Markets
Provable Markets is a New York-based financial technology company modernizing the securities lending and securities finance markets. Through Aurora, its SEC-registered, vertically integrated Alternative Trading System, it combines encrypted real-time order matching, automated post-trade lifecycle management, and connectivity to central clearing (NSCC CCP) and settlement (DTC) infrastructure. Founded in 2020 by CEO Matthew Cohen and rooted in cryptographic research on secure multi-party computation, the company aims to replace the instant-message-and-spreadsheet workflows of a roughly trillion-dollar market with cloud-native, low-latency, transparent trading.
RQD* Clearing
RQD* Clearing is a New York-based correspondent clearing firm that provides clearing, custody, and execution services for broker-dealers on a cloud-native, real-time platform. Spun out of options market maker Volant, it self-clears U.S. equities, options, and ETFs, positioning itself as a modern alternative to legacy clearing providers with direct API integration, 24x5 availability, and infrastructure built on Microsoft Azure.