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Lime Trading
Lime Trading (Lime Trading Corp., operating as Lime Financial) is a New York-based broker-dealer that gives independent and institutional traders access to institutional-grade trading technology. Born in 2000 inside a quantitative hedge fund as Lime Brokerage, the firm built low-latency infrastructure for high-frequency trading and now offers direct market access, trading APIs, colocation, and proprietary web and mobile platforms for trading U.S. equities, options, and futures. It positions itself in the gap between bulge-bracket banks and retail apps, serving sophisticated traders and developers who want speed, transparency, and quality execution.
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.
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.
Michael Sanocki
Michael Sanocki is the founder and CEO of RQD* Clearing, a New York-based cloud-native correspondent clearing firm that processes billions of dollars of US equity and options trades daily. An attorney by training who spent years inside the SEC, the ISE options exchange, and Volant Trading before running RQD, he argues that legacy clearing is 'broken' and is rebuilding it in real time on Microsoft Azure.