Asset Management

Enhance Fund Performance by Minimizing Drag from Margin and Collateral Costs

Hedge Funds

Predict, reconcile and forecast margin & lower funding costs by optimizing collateral

Pension Funds

Reduce margin exposure & ensure collateral resilience within your liquidity framework

Commodity Firms

Manage fluctuating margins and ensure collateral liquidity in volatile financial markets

Clearing Brokers

Enhance client services with on-demand margin calculation, ‘what-if’ analysis, and reporting tools

Prime Brokers

Dynamically manage your clients’ margin with powerful exposure management and reporting tools

Margin and Collateral Knowledge Hub.

Collateral Optimization: Increasing returns & improving liquidity preparedness

Solutions

About us

Founded in 2014, we are the established, core utility provider of analytics and optimization tools built for the derivatives industry.

Our highly experienced team has engineered and executed the only front-to-back margin and collateral intelligence and cost analysis platform, that covers the entire lifecycle of a trade.

With award-winning technology and advanced algorithms, we enable all market participants to calculate margin on any cleared or uncleared derivatives asset, analyze drivers and movement in margin exposure, reduce margin levels and maximize margin efficiency.

“We are committed to our mission of improving returns and reducing operational risk at every step of the trade lifecycle for our clients, minimizing margin exposure, managing collateral liquidity and risk, maximizing collateral resilience, and lowering carry cost on any derivative portfolio.”

Liam Huxley
Cassini Founder & CEO

Our Vision

To be the core utility provider of analytics and optimization tools integrated into all capital markets’ systems. Across all margin, financing, collateral, and inventory management functions.

Meet the people behind the work.

Liam Huxley

CEO & Founder
Liam ran investment banking development groups in both the UK and the US before co-founding Syncova which developed the market-leading platform for Hedge Fund portfolio margin and financing – providing calculation & optimization for both Prime Brokers and Hedge Funds. Syncova was acquired by Advent Software in 2011. Liam then founded Cassini with a forward-looking concept of providing the buy-side with full modeling of all the new costs and constraints created by clearing and related regulations, to allow more efficient trading and portfolio management.

Sudhagar Dass

Head of QA
Sudhagar, leading the QA team at Cassini, brings 15 years of expertise in devising quality for financial services, Insurance, and software development sectors. His strategies and approaches have led the QA team to deliver complex projects for companies of all shapes and sizes, including start-ups.

Marco Knaap

Head of Partnerships and Business Development
Marc Knaap is the Head of Partnerships and managing director at Cassini, bringing a formidable 25-year history in financial services and technology sectors. His journey encompasses diverse roles, including Sales Director positions at notable firms.

Thomas Griffiths

Head of Product
Thomas Griffiths has almost two decades’ worth of experience in the capital markets and financial services sectors. Starting his career at ABN Amro bank in the early 2000s, Thomas has since held numerous senior management roles.

Joe Midmore

Global Head of Market Strategy and Sales
Joe Midmore, with his extensive experience in the financial industry, has recently joined Cassini as the Global Head of Market Strategy and Sales. With over 15 years at Credit Suisse, where he held various roles, he brings a wealth of expertise in derivatives, prime brokerage, and financial market innovation.

Shamil Patel

Head of Support
Shamil Patel is the Head of Support at Cassini. He brings extensive client support and problem-resolution expertise.

Harry Beviss

Head of Technology
Harry has an academic background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Complex Systems Simulation.

Magnus Rannala

Head of Client Services
Formerly a Nuclear Physicist, Magnus brings a wealth of project management experience from diverse civil and defence nuclear endeavours.

Proven partners

We are your trusted ally in achieving success. Our tailored solutions, integrated into all industry leading OMS, EMS and collateral workflow providers, are designed to address your specific challenges, help you surpass your competitors and achieve your derivatives trading objectives.

Problem solvers

We thrive on tackling complex challenges. Innovation-driven and intelligence-fuelled, our market-leading solutions and deep domain expertise offer new ways to develop our intelligent analytics in line with industry needs.

Data protectors

We make information security our priority. As a technology firm certified in ISO 27001 and compliant with SOC-2, we uphold the utmost integrity for constant data safety and security protocols.

Careers

Work with the financial industry’s most talented individuals. As a fast-growing company – with offices in London (HQ), New York, Sydney, and Singapore – we look for enthusiastic people keen to stretch themselves and adapt to the change around them.