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Founded in 2018 with the aim of providing an integrated platform that supports the end-to-end digital assets trading process, Talos was named “Trading Platform of the Year” at the Hedgeweek Global Digital Asset Awards 2024. Here, Co-Founder and CEO Anton Katz outlines how the company is working to grow its global reach and empower everyone in the crypto ecosystem to interact efficiently and confidently…
What is Talos’s service offering and what makes it special?
Talos provides institutional-grade technology that supports the full digital asset investment lifecycle, from portfolio construction and execution to treasury and settlement. With Talos, institutions orchestrate workflows among their digital asset providers across our network of 70+ exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, custodians, and more – through a single interface.
What are the three selling points of your business and service range?
Engineered by experts in institutional trading and portfolio systems, Talos offers institutional-grade systems built to navigate the complexities of digital assets while meeting the demands of institutional buy-side and sell-side firms. Talos empowers all types of institutions to participate in digital assets with the same sophistication they expect in traditional finance.
Our unmatched connectivity features over 70 integrations with leading service providers across the ecosystem, including over 50 exchanges (centralised, DeFi, and TradFi), ensuring clients have access to aggregated liquidity sources for advanced execution.
Talos helps clients achieve and evidence best execution across a fragmented market through its suite of sophisticated trading algorithms, smart order routing, and transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools. We built an advanced analytics interface that displays in-flight executions as well as post-trade TCA that can be drilled down to the strategy, order, and venue levels to help clients meet their regulatory requirements.
Our focus on security, superior performance, and white glove service makes us a trusted partner for institutions navigating digital asset markets.
What innovation from the past 12 months are you most proud of?
We’re most proud of the recent launch of our new integrated portfolio management system (PMS). While traditional finance separates portfolio, risk, and trading systems, Talos has combined best-of-breed technology for portfolio construction, portfolio and risk management, and treasury and settlement into our new PMS that is fully integrated into our award-winning trading platform, creating a seamless front-to-back investment platform. The new platform introduces workspaces tailored to every role in the investment lifecycle – portfolio managers, researchers, traders, risk managers, and operations teams. By integrating these functions, we provide real-time insights and operational efficiency.
How have your services helped clients navigate the economic landscape of the past 12 months?
Talos has been instrumental in supporting clients through a volatile 12 months in the crypto markets. In a fragmented market, we’ve added several new venues to our platform, offering clients superior access to liquidity and the ability to move in and out of positions with efficiency and scale in fast-moving markets.
We also introduced support for sophisticated options trading strategies, including multi-leg orders, enabling clients to manage volatility and hedge effectively, while greater regulatory scrutiny on best execution (eg MiCA in the EU), prompted the introduction of the necessary tools to help evidence best execution.
With the approval of bitcoin and ether ETFs having reshaped the digital asset space this year; we responded by building systems tailored for ETF issuers to facilitate their block trading workflows with market makers.
And with more asset managers then ever looking to offer their customers multi-token strategies, Talos Portfolio Construction tools have helped them design portfolios with risk-adjusted returns
Through these capabilities, Talos stands as a critical partner for institutions navigating the ever-evolving environment of digital assets.
Anton Katz, Co-Founder and CEO, Talos – Anton is the Co-founder and CEO of Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset trading technology. Based in New York, Anton is responsible for leading the firm’s operations and driving its strategic initiatives around the world. Talos, now a unicorn, has developed a platform that adapts the standards of traditional finance to the digital asset markets and is becoming the primary infrastructure used by institutions active in digital assets, from hedge funds to global banks. Before co-founding Talos, Anton served as Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management, one of the world’s most prominent quantitative investment firms. Prior to that he spent six years at Broadway Technology, most recently serving as Director of Software, where he led trading technology development projects for leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. He began his technology career at Microsoft. Anton was born in Ukraine and is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces. He was a member of the Israeli National Shooting Team and won a gold medal at the 1998 World Championships. Anton holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.
