Centroid Solutions CRISTIAN VLASCEANU CEO of Centroid Solutions
Q Can you further elaborate how is Centroid Solutions offering different than other providers? Centroid Solutions is a technology company specializing in risk management, quantitative analytics, connectivity, complex execution strategies and P&L optimization for financial brokers. The team is very experienced and possess unique talents and skills, being comprised of professionals with many years of hands-on experience in dealing desks, risk management, quantitative risk analytics, software development, trading solutions and infrastructure. Our product offering is also very custom: our competition is either focusing on producing risk management information only, often not in real-time, and most importantly, completely disconnected from the actual trade execution process (meaning that the information cannot be used to construct execution rules, which would automatically detect and mitigate risks in real-time at the point of trade execution); or either focusing entirely on trade execution only, but again, such solutions are completely disconnected from the actual risk management process of the broker (meaning that, such systems also cannot be used to construct intelligent execution rules). This creates a handicap situation for brokers on multiple levels: Q Hello Cristian, congratulations on your new role at Centroid Solutions. What attracted you to take the reins at Centroid Solutions?
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prevents brokers to maximize their risk-adjusted P&L results, because risks cannot be automatically detected and mitigated in real-time;
Thank you, Paul, for the wishes and invitation. As you know, I have spent my entire professional career in this space, and I understand what are the requirements and needs from brokers - and I have solved numerous challenges for them in the previous roles I held. With Centroid Solutions, I was impressed to see the scope and depth of the offering, with products that not just cover some major technology gaps in the market but introduce new powerful concepts by merging risk management together with smart execution capabilities, which significantly helps brokers improve their bottom line. The products are suitable for brokers of different sizes, adapting to various business strategies and execution models, while providing the required technical assistance to scale up their businesses.
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causes business inefficiencies and higher overall operating costs;
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and prevents brokers from providing a consistent pricing and execution for their customers.
Additionally, I am pleased to say that the founders of Centroid Solutions and I share the same vision and plans, committed to a focus on continuously improving our technology, innovating and providing excellent customer services to our clients.
Therefore, what makes Centroid’s offering unique is the fact that we offer a technology suite which helps brokers to effectively overcome the above issues, by merging together real-time risk management and quantitative analytics, with the ability to construct sophisticated execution rules, to automatically detect and mitigate risks, on-the-fly, at execution level. Q How do you see the brokerage space changing in the future and what developments are you making to adjust the product offering? As we have seen over the last years, the brokerage space is constantly changing, at an increasingly faster pace, and becoming more and more challenging. Naturally, the brokers requirements on their technology stack are
