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Michael Chin Changed Instruments
He meant to make music in New York. Instead, Michael Chin spent three decades changing the tempo of financial technology - from trading desks to cloud software, and from chief executive to trusted advisor.
LSEG TORA and the $325 Million Business of Getting Trades Done
An investment idea still has to survive the trading desk. TORA built its business around that journey, from overloaded order queues to the software LSEG bought to connect data with execution.
Jack Slocum Is Still Debugging the Human Trader
He helped turn JavaScript into a serious application platform. Now the Option Alpha founder is applying the same systems instinct to a less obedient piece of software: the trader.
TS Imagine Bet $0 on a Flashy Rebrand - and Built the Control Room Wall Street Actually Needed
The 2021 merger joined a pioneering trading screen to a 30-year-old risk engine. The result is an unglamorous but useful lesson in selling software to institutions: collapse the handoffs, keep the specialists, and let one clean data set do the talking.
The Financial Terminal That Started on a Bicycle
Before FactSet became a $2.3 billion data business, its product arrived as four sheets of paper by bicycle messenger. The delivery method changed; the useful idea did not.
Cboe Global Markets
The company that gave Wall Street a fear gauge now sells the pipes, prices and products behind an increasingly global, nearly round-the-clock market. Its advantage is less a single exchange than a feedback loop: invent the contract, gather the liquidity, distribute the data, then teach the next wave of traders how to use it.
MIAX
MIAX started as a bet that exchange technology could be faster, more reliable and more attentive to customers. It has since assembled eight marketplaces across options, equities, futures and international listings - and turned the machinery behind a trade into the product.
Eva Sehic
Eva Sehic is the CEO of Lime Trading, a New York agency broker that provides fast, scalable direct market access to US equities and options markets. She stepped into the top job in September 2024 after joining as COO a year earlier, and brings more than two decades of markets experience from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Sberbank's New York operation, where she served as COO and CEO. Known for pairing operational discipline with a bet on AI, blockchain and machine learning, she was named Excellence in Innovation winner at the 2024 Markets Media Women in Finance Awards and Vendor Professional of the Year at the 2025 Witad Awards.