Anton Katz Named One of 2024 TabbFORUM 40 Innovators in Financial Markets

We are thrilled to announce that Talos CEO and Co-Founder Anton Katz has been named one of the 2024 TabbFORUM 40 Innovators in Financial Markets.

The TabbFORUM 40 honors top innovators in capital markets, recognizing the achievements and influence of outstanding disruptors and difference-makers who are having the greatest impact at the intersection of finance and technology. 

Anton was selected as one of 40 honorees based on TabbForum’s ongoing research as well as nominations and recommendations from the community. The selection criteria included leadership, results, and reputation; impact on domestic and global markets; achievements both recent and over the course of a career; as well as advancements in technology, implementations, and R&D.

Read about all the honorees on TabbForum. Read the write-up on Anton below.

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Anton Katz, Chief Executive Officer, Talos

Hedge funds and high tech mesh in Talos’ back story. Anton Katz was formerly head of trading technology at AQR Capital Management. Before that he was director of software at Broadway Technology (later acquired by Bloomberg), where Ethan Feldman was a colleague. After setting out together to form a crypto hedge fund, they decided instead to turn their computer science backgrounds (Katz has a degree from MIT, Feldman has two from Cornell) and industry expertise toward creating a fully integrated, institutional-grade trading platform for the fast-emerging digital-asset marketplace. Since Katz, now CEO, and chief technology officer Feldman founded their startup in New York six years ago, Talos raised venture capital, with Andreessen Horowitz leading Fidelity Investments, Galaxy Digital, PayPal Ventures and others in a Series A round; and integrated dozens of liquidity providers and other key market entities into its expanding, international ecosystem.

The building blocks have included partnerships, such as with Deribit as an entrée into crypto options trading; with Uniswap Labs and Fireblocks “to bring decentralized liquidity and on-chain settlement to professional traders and institutions”; and an integration with CME Group making a broader range of trading strategies available across the DeFi-TradFi divide.

And there have been acquisitions: systematic-investment technology provider D3X Systems in 2023, which brought “additional and powerful pre-trade and post-trade tools for our clients to design portfolios and manage risk,” Katz said; and in 2024 Skolem, to “position Talos to set a new standard for the digital-asset OEMS [order execution management system] and PMS [portfolio management system] – one that incorporates DeFi end to end.”

In October, Talos unveiled a new PMS “seamlessly integrating all of its portfolio management tools” with its flagship OEMS, the announcement said. “The Talos platform now offers institutions real-time risk monitoring for spot and derivatives, leveraging the risk technology recently added through Talos’s acquisition of Cloudwall.” Katz added: “Digital assets are entering a new era of maturity, and our clients’ needs are expanding beyond execution into all aspects of investment management.”