FastFin is an innovation lab and product incubator for capital markets fintech

We combine domain knowledge with cutting edge tech to bring great ideas to life, fast
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We serve the sell-side, the buy-side, financial technology vendors, and entrepreneurs
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We deploy feature teams, whether embedded or independently

We assemble elite taskforces with financial markets expertise, who can work onsite or offsite for maximum speed and agility
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Capabilities

We're polymaths, continually exploring and applying the best ideas at the intersection of finance, technology, and design thinking.

Sample Silos

We drive innovation across numerous lines of business and arrive with the acumen to be effective on day one

Securities Lending

Portfolio Trading

Front Office Automation

Currency Overlay

Alternative Liquidity

Innovation
Kickstarter

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Ideate
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Design
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Refine
4
Prototype
Idea to prototype in 4-8 weeks
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Product
Booster

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Ideate
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Design
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Refine
4
Harden
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Deploy
Prototype to MVP and beyond via bolt-on modules of 8 weeks each
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Selected Clients

Richard Leader
Richard has pioneered innovation and the adoption of cutting-edge technology in the financial markets since 2008, overseeing scores of projects at major G10 and emerging markets banks, asset managers, and institutional fintechs. Originally from London, he spent more than a decade living and working in North and South America. He co-founded FastFin in New York with Emin Tatosian in 2016 and together they co-founded FX swaps ECN FX HedgePool, which completed its series A in 2022. He currently lives in Chelsea, London with his wife and two children
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Simon Wilson-Taylor
Simon is a serial financial markets entrepreneur. After selling his first FX platform, Molten Markets, to CME Group via ICAP he founded institutional fintech incubator FICCit, developing several market structural transformative products including LoopFX. Previously, Simon was Global Head of FICC Ecommerce at UBS. This followed a long career at State Street, where he was a prolific innovator - building and running the GlobalLink suite of businesses spanning FX, equities, securities lending, fixed income, futures, and fund distribution, encompassing extensive pre- and post-trade workflows. Simon’s background was as a buy-side quant, and he was previously instrumental in launching two currency overlay businesses, including at State Street itself - which became the world’s largest. Simon is based in New York and Connecticut.
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