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Seth Merrin is an entrepreneur, global business leader, and philanthropist who has reinvented how Wall Street can work for good and use technology to make the markets safer and more efficient for investors.
As founder and CEO of Liquidnet, he has built a different kind of financial services company that has created a global market for institutional asset managers to more efficiently trade stocks and bonds. Liquidnet, named the Number One Broker in the World by Abel/Noser, connects more than 800 of the world’s leading asset managers to large-scale equity trading opportunities in 44 markets across five continents. Through Liquidnet for Good and its signature project with the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) in Rwanda, the company is defining a new vision for how progressive companies can save and improve lives around the world.
Merrin has been named “Innovator of the Decade” by Advanced Trading magazine two decades in a row, one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by Treasury & Risk magazine, and one of the “Tech 50 for five years in a row by Institutional Investor. His innovations have been profiled in more than 50 articles, including Forbes, Barron’s, and Crain’s New York Business. Before forming Liquidnet, Merrin cofounded VIE Systems Inc. and Merrin Financial, where he introduced the industry’s first order management system, technologies that are now standard on virtually every trading desk around the world. Prior to 1985, Merrin was a Risk ...
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