Insights
January 7, 2025
Simplex Trading today announced that it has been honored in Built In’s 2025 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, the proprietary trading firm was named a “Chicago Best Midsize Place to Work.”
August 14, 2024
Simplex Trading, a leader in the proprietary trading and market making industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Nancy Laethem Stern as Managing Director, General Counsel. Ms. Stern joins the Simplex management team with oversight of the firm’s legal and compliance functions and supporting the firm’s business and growth strategies.
June 28, 2024
Learn how Spline Data Founder, Matthew Smith, set out to solve the challenge of accurately valuing municipal bonds. Through its fully automated software, Spline’s creates a positive and lasting impact in the way their customers do business.
June 6, 2024
Simplex announced the appointment of Ben Londergan as Managing Director of Strategic Business Development. In this role, Londergan is responsible for helping Simplex grow by expanding partnerships and expanding Simplex’s current core business into new products and geographies.
May 13, 2024
Dr. Richard Munassi MD MBA, co-founder & CSO, shares how Medzoomer created a solution to deliver medications from the pharmacy right to patients’ doorsteps.
March 21, 2024
An aerospace engineer and pilot by training, Pulse Charter Connect’s Founder & CEO, Laura Epstein, describes how her passion for bettering society through aviation inspired the digital SaaS solution, enabling seamless coordination and efficient healthcare logistics management.
March 6, 2024
Cognito attracts next round financing to launch its all-in-one, affordable mental health service in Ontario and expand partnerships with insurers, businesses and government.
February 13, 2024
Cognito CEO & Co-Founder, Armon Arani, shares how the company is changing the way mental health is provided to all Canadians – through affordability, accessibility, immediacy and integration.
January 9, 2024
Simplex Trading today announced that it has been honored in Built In’s 2024 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, the proprietary trading firm was named a “Chicago Best Midsize Place to Work.”
December 6, 2023
From searching property listings to scheduling tours all through one seamless platform, hear from Chase Marsh, Prevu’s Co-Founder, to learn how the company is changing the real estate game.
October 10, 2023
Learn more about KYC Hospitality from Founder & CEO, Dina Yuen. She shares how growing up in and around hotels has shaped the company’s mission, why she believes hotels are the happiest place on earth and how they’re creating solutions for real problems hoteliers face daily.
September 29, 2023
CRS Co-Founder & CEO, Marco Buhlmann, shared in a recent interview the inspiration behind starting the company and the competitive advantages CRS offers its customers compared to other credit reporting services.
August 23, 2023
Mart Vos, founder and CEO of Eko – a full-suite solution which provides digital investing to financial institutions – shares a look into his background and how Eko is revolutionizing the financial industry.
May 31, 2023
In a recent interview with SympliFi CEO and Co-Founder, Maurice Iwunze, we go behind-the-scenes of the company and its mission to create economic opportunity and accelerate financial inclusion by radically increasing access and radically decreasing the cost of credit for the millions of underbanked micro & small businesses in emerging markets.
April 12, 2023
In a recent interview with BluePallet CEO and Co-Founder, Scott Barrows, we go behind-the-scenes of BluePallet’s early success and impact as a marketplace and network for the chemical industry.
February 28, 2023
Go behind the scenes with the founder of Simplex Ventures’ portfolio company, iink, a revolutionary homeowner’s claim and endorsement management platform.
January 31, 2023
Go behind the scenes with the founders of Simplex Ventures’ growing list of portfolio companies starting with Lynk, a closed-loop payment and card issuing platform that is reducing processing fees and creating a unified full-stack banking experience.
January 23, 2023
From embedded payments to the rise of Web 3.0, the venture-backed fintech industry is highly dynamic, agile and one of the first spaces to respond to the latest market trends. We asked fintech leaders across our portfolio companies to share what’s top of mind for them in 2023 – take a look at what they had to say!
Traders Magazine, FLASH FRIDAY: Retail Options Trading Draws Regulatory Scrutiny
July 29, 2022
Erik Swanson, CEO at Simplex Trading, shared his thoughts on the regulatory environment surrounding retail options trading.
John Lothian News, JLN Interviews Simplex CEO Erik Swanson at OIC 2022
July 13, 2022
Erik Swanson, CEO at Simplex Trading, sat down with John Lothian News at the 2022 Options Industry Conference (OIC) in San Antonio, Texas to share his story of leading Simplex and some insights on the industry.
March 9, 2022
Simplex announced the hiring of Kate Kitto as the Principal of Venture Capital of Simplex Ventures, the firm’s venture capital arm. In her role, Kitto sources, evaluates and manages the firm’s investments in early-stage financial technology companies, with a particular focus on visionary founders who are driven to disrupt and transform institutional fintech industry.
November 11, 2021
David Haufe, Director of Technology at Simplex Trading, spoke with BuiltIn Chicago about how the company builds a culture of mentorship without the burdens of hierarchy.
September 2, 2021
Erik Swanson, CEO at Simplex Trading, “pulled back the curtain” on how market makers operate in a conversation with the Chat with Traders podcast.
August 31, 2021
More new entrants entered the options market making wholesaler space in 2021 than ever before. Erik Swanson, CEO at Simplex Trading, spoke with Traders Magazine about what that means for the industry and how he’s adjusting the business strategy for the company.
May 6, 2021
tastytrade invited Erik Swanson, CEO at Simplex Trading, on its podcast “An Evening with the Pros” to discuss the prop trading world and answer questions on a variety of topics. Erik shared how Simplex manages and approaches risk, how the company defines successful traders, and how he and Simplex addresses volatility in the market.