Wematch, the award-winning dealing workflow platform for traders, sales, and brokers, today announces the appointment of Ross Levin to the position of Head of Securities Lending Product. In this role, Levin will be responsible for the strategic direction of Wematch’s innovative Securities Lending module, which digitalizes and automates workflow including special and general collateral, collateral management and optimization, and trade lifecycle management.
Levin brings more than 20 years of financial and technology expertise to his role at Wematch, having held multiple high-level positions in the financial industry. Prior to joining Wematch, Levin was a Managing Director and Head of Product Development at US Tiger Securities and its sister company, TradeUP Securities, where he was brought in to implement US self-clearing capabilities.
Levin has also held a senior leadership position at Cowen, where as Head of Technology for its Global Clearing and Securities Finance division he helped build securities finance and self-clearing capabilities from the ground up. Additional leadership experience includes roles at Itau, where Levin built a Prime Services business from scratch, and at Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was heading product development for their Prime Services division.
Joseph Seroussi, Co-founder & CEO at Wematch comments: “Wematch is on a mission to bring unprecedented efficiency and productivity to dealing workflows while dramatically reducing operational risks. That means hiring the very best technology and product talent available to help ensure our products remain at the leading edge. Ross’ vast experience in both technology and securities makes him the ideal fit for our Securities Lending product as we look to target rapid growth in the years ahead. Levin is a strong addition to our Team and will help ensure that we are better able than ever to deliver against our clients’ requirements.”
Ross Levin adds: “I welcome the opportunity to work with a digitally native company that is pushing the boundaries around how participants in securities lending conduct business. Automation and digitalization are transforming securities lending workflows, and I look forward to helping the Wematch Team lead at the vanguard of this transformation and deliver unprecedented value to our clients.”
Wematch’s Securities Lending product is part of a suite of workflow solutions aimed at the Securities Financing markets and which includes Total Return Swaps, Repos, and Sales to Trader among other modules. More details are available at https://wematch.live/platform/
