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VeriClear

VeriClear is a financial technology solution developed by Vermiculus Financial Technology AB, a company specializing in trading, clearing, and Central Securities Depository (CSD) technologies. Introduced as a microservice-based, cloud-native, real-time risk system, VeriClear is designed to enhance the operational capabilities of clearinghouses globally.
==Overview==
In March of 2022, Vermiculus announced a deal to proive VeriClear to Miami International Holdings, Inc., the parent holding company of the MIAX Exchange Group and Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEX). In June 2023, Vermiculus announced the rapid deployment of the VeriClear platform at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, achieving record implementation time.
In June of 2022, Vermiculus will provide the VeriClear system to CERC in Brazil. 
VeriClear is part of a strategic partnership with The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. This collaboration was announced on January 24, 2024, marking a significant milestone in the use of advanced technology in financial market infrastructures.
nuam exchange, which was formed from the merger of the Lima, Santiago, and Colombia stock exchanges, partnered with Vermiculus to implement the VeriClear system for the Central Counterparty Clearinghouses (CCP) in Chile, Colombia, and Peru. 
===Features and Capabilities===
VeriClear is distinguished by its elastically scalable architecture, which allows it to adjust capacity based on demand, ensuring high performance and reliability under varying workloads. The system is AI-powered, enhancing its ability to manage risk and optimize clearing processes in real time. Its microservice-based design facilitates seamless integration with existing or new systems, providing flexibility and reducing the need for large, complex projects.
=== Key Functionalities ===
*Real-Time Risk Management: VeriClear enables real-time monitoring and management of risks, which is crucial for maintaining market stability and integrity.
*Margin and Settlement Savings: The system offers financial efficiencies by optimizing margin requirements and speeding up settlement processes, thus reducing operational costs for clients.
*Enhanced Security and Performance: With its advanced architecture, VeriClear ensures top-level security and operational performance, meeting the stringent requirements of financial markets
=== Implementation and Impact ===
The deployment of VeriClear is part of OCC's Renaissance Initiative, a comprehensive effort to overhaul and modernize its technology infrastructure. This initiative aims to enhance the operational framework, improve risk management tools, and establish a robust data management system to better serve market participants. VeriClear's integration into OCC's infrastructure is expected to play a critical role in the development of OCC's new platform, Ovation, which is designed to be a cloud-based, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-powered platform enhancing business agility and operational efficiency.
== References ==
Category:Clearing Technology
Category:Vermiculus
Category:OCC
Category:MGEX
Verified Emission Reductions

Verified emission reductions (VERs), also known as voluntary emission reductions, are units of greenhouse gas emission reductions that have been verified by an independent auditor, but that have not yet undergone the procedures and may not yet have met the requirements for verification, certification and issuance of CERs (in the case of the Clean Development Mechanism) or emission reduction units (ERUs) (in the case of joint implementation) under the Kyoto Protocol. Buyers of VERs assume all carbon-specific policy and regulatory risks (i.e. the risk that the VERs are not ultimately registered as CERs or ERUs). Buyers therefore tend to pay a discounted price for VERs, which takes the inherent regulatory risks into account. 
== References ==
Category:Definitions
Category:Environmental Markets
Vermeg Group

Vermeg Group is a publicly traded financial software firm with a focus on banking, insurance and compliance. The firm, established in 1993 with offices in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands and Tunisia, has more than 150 customers in 20 countries and more than 700 employees. 
== History ==
Established in 1993 by founder Badreddine Ouali, the firm was originally part of BFI and spun off in 2002 and focused solely on the European market. It is known for providing IT services to financial services and insurance industries and as a partner in custody and asset management sectors as well in Europe. 
Vermeg has expanded organically and via acquisitions over the years. In September 2002, the firm acquired a division of Reuters France called Diagram, which supplied back office asset management software. 
In 2014, Vermeg bought the Belgium-based firm BSB, which specialized in financial software. 
The company took on an investor, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, in January 2017, to help bolster its expansion plans. Crédit Mutuel Arkéa took a 19.5 percent stake in Vermeg. 
In February 2018, the firm announced the acquisition of Lombard Risk for £52.08 million, a risk management, regulatory reporting and collateral management software firm. Vermeg said the acquisition would help expand the company's footprint and product lines. Lombard Risk, which was also publicly traded, has access to markets in the UK, North America and Asia.
== Products and Services ==
Vermeg covers:
*Pension & Insurance
*Wealth & Asset Management
*Financial Markets & Securities Services
*Bespoke Solutions Development
*Property & Casualty Insurance
The company offers an ecosystem of software products called Palmyra, which is designed to work with existing systems and technologies.
Megara by Vermeg is a modular Swift-certified technology covering post-trade processing.
== Key People ==
* Badreddine Ouali, Chairman and Founder
* Pascal Leroy, CEO
== References ==
Vermiculus

Vermiculus Financial Technology is a Swedish-based technology provider founded by former leaders of Cinnober Financial Technology, including former Cinnober executive chairman Nils-Robert Persson. It was formed in 2019 with the aim of helping exchanges and clearing houses navigate the financial IT landscape.
In June 2020, Vermiculus became a sponsor of John Lothian News.
Vermiculus employees are the majority owners of the company.
== History ==
Vermiculus Financial Technology, VFT, is an independent provider of high-performance technology to exchanges and clearing houses.
A group of former leaders from Cinnober Financial Technology established Vermiculus in 2020 in response to what they saw as market demand for independent providers of best-in-class technology. The company began with 25 employees, many of whom previously led technical operations at a number of large global exchanges and clearing houses over the past 30 years, including B3, Japan Exchange Group, OCC, Australian Stock Exchange, Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange, London Metal Exchange and Clearinghouse, Stock Exchange of Thailand and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. 
In January of 2024, OCC chose Vermiculus' microservice-based solution built upon on VeriClear as part of the ongoing development of its forthcoming Ovation platform.
In February 2024, Nuam Exchange, a collaborative effort among the stock exchanges of Lima, Santiago, and Colombia, partnered with Vermiculus to deploy new core infrastructure. The partnership aims to introduce a comprehensive clearing system encompassing trade and position management, settlement processing, collateral, and risk management, along with real-time risk monitoring, margining, and collateral management across all three CCPs.
== Products and Services ==
The company's products cover the lifecycle of a trade, from pre-trade risk management to its settlement.
In February 2021 Vermiculus launched a scalable, AI-powered, real-time clearing system, part of a group of products the company offers that serve the transaction chain. Vermiculus said the system brings together state-of-the-art advances in dynamic microservices architecture with experience in clearing house business requirements. 
On September 17, 2024, Vermiculus announced the launch of its VeriTrade "next-generation" ultra-low latency trading platform, built on a microservice architecture that supports both on-prem and in the cloud deployment.
== Key People ==
*Taraneh Derayati, CEO
*Nils-Robert Persson, Chairman
== References ==	
Category:Independent Software Vendors
Category:Fintech Companies
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Vernon & Park Capital, L.P.

Vernon & Park Capital is an Illinois-based private equity firm that is concentrated on investments in the exchange and financial market sector. Its investments in companies typically range from $1 to $10 million. For larger transactions, Vernon & Park partners with other firms. Vernon & Park was formed in 2001. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*James S. Ginsburg, Managing Partner of Vernon & Park Capital
*Linda B. Ginsburg, Managing Director
== News == 
In May of 2008 Vernon & Park Capital announced it had acquired a minority stake in Canadian stock exchange Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc.
In November of 2009 Vernon & Park Capital announced a strategic investment in UNX. The funding will support enhancements of UNX's electronic trading products and services. .
== References ==
Category:Private Equity
Veronica Augustsson

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Veronica Augustsson is a financial technology executive with 20 years of leadership experience. She is a partner and director with 7RIDGE, a specialized growth equity and private markets asset management firm based in London. 
Before joining 7RIDGE in 2019, she served as CEO of Cinnober Financial Technology. She was named to the post in October 2012 and departed in August 2018. 
== Background ==
Augustsson started her career at Cinnober in 2002 as a developer. After that, she held various positions within the company including onsite support at the American Stock Exchange in New York, and also in technical sales support for the TRADExpress platform. She rose to head of sales at Cinnober and is credited with helping secure deals for its technology with Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange and LME Clear.
In becoming CEO, she succeeded Javier Tordable, who left after six months in the post.
In September of 2013, she was included in Financial News’ “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Trading and Technology” list for the second consecutive year.
In 2014, Augustsson was profiled in Institutional Investor's "Trading Technology 40".
In April 2015, she was designated one of Sweden's most successful young female managers by Ledarna, a Swedish managers’ association, in collaboration with talent partner Nova.
== Education ==
Augustsson has a master’s degree in computer engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
==MarketsWiki Education Videos==
Augustsson participated in the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in London 2014 with a presentation titled "The Why & How of Technology."
In March of 2017, she participated in the first MarketsWiki Education series in Stockholm with a presentation titled "From Sports To Business In An International Arena."
== References ==	
Category:Cinnober Financial Technology
Category:Cinnober - Former Employees
Category: ISV CEOs
Category: CEOs
Category:MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Speaker
Vesna Straser

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Vesna Straser is the director of analytics for LiquidMetrix.
Formerly, she was the product manager for trading analytics at CQG. Straser was brought to the company as a developer of algorithmic analysis and for execution performance advisory.
== Background ==
Straser entered the workforce as a research associate at ITG Inc. From there, she was brought on as a vice president of Jefferies & Company, Inc. in 2004, focusing on quantitative research and modeling of automated trading strategies, transaction cost modeling and execution quality consulting. Two years later, Straser moved to Lehman Brothers where she served as VP, overseeing similar procedures.
After the collapse of the investment bank in 2008, Straser became a director at Barclays Capital, where she headed algorithmic trading product management and transaction cost analysis. 
== Education ==
Straser received a Ph.D in Economics from Notre Dame in 2002.
==Video Interviews==
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:CQG - Former Employees
Category:Barclays Capital - Former Employees
Category:Lehman Brothers - Former Employees
Category:Jefferies & Company - Former Employees
ViableMkts

ViableMkts is a firm that provides market structure and fintech advisory services to institutions focused on adapting to the fixed income market environment. The firm specializes in financial technology. 
The firm is in partnership with the Bond Dealers of America to support their 40 member dealers with the development of their respective technology strategies for taxable fixed income market making. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*Chris White, Founder and CEO
*Naeem Hukkawala, COO
== References ==
Vickie L. Lambert

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Vickie Lambert is senior vice president of compliance and risk at Rand Financial Services, Inc. She was named to the position on April 14, 2008 after previously serving as vice president of corporate relations at Rand. She joined the company in 1998.
== Background ==
Lambert’s futures industry career began in 1988. Prior to Rand, she was compliance manager of other FCMs, including First Options of Chicago, Inc. and LIT America, Inc. 
== Education ==
Lambert earned a paralegal certificate “with honors” from Roosevelt University in 1993.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Rand Financial Services
Category:Rand Financial Services
Category:LIT America, Inc.
Category:LIT America, Inc.
Category:First Options of Chicago
Category:First Options of Chicago
Vickie Tillman

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Vickie Tillman is the head of global sustainability business development at McGraw-Hill Cos., parent of Standard & Poor's Corp. (S&P). She is responsible for driving growth in environmental finance and new product development. Tillman announced in December 2011 that she was considering leaving McGraw-Hill. She was previously the executive vice president of S&P from 1999 to 2009.
== Background ==
Prior to her appointment as executive vice president of global business in 1999, Tillman was the executive managing director of structured finance ratings at S&P beginning in 1994. In this role, she assumed worldwide operational and financial responsibilities, directing rating activity for all S&P structured finance ratings services. 
Tillman joined S&P in 1977 as a municipal analyst, and has had diverse analytical and managerial responsibilities in all phases of credit analysis and criteria development. Past functions include lead analyst for S&P’s municipal utilities and revenue bonds groups, co-manager for S&P’s public finance department, and executive managing director of public finance. 
Tillman led the firm’s business growth, expanding its global ratings network in Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In addition, she has overseen the growth of domestic operations in California, Boston and Chicago, and as executive vice president, repositioned its business to offer credit risk solutions products and services globally. 
== Affiliations ==
During her time at S&P, she was a member of the executive committee; on the board of CRISIL LTD., India’s leading bond rating agency; on the advisory board of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; and was the executive sponsor for S&P's diversity council. 
== Education ==
*Executive Education, Leadership Program in Sustainability, Cambridge University (2009)
*Executive Education, Getting Business Value from IT, MIT Sloan School of Management (2006)
*By Invitation Only, Symposium for Women in Power, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2002)
*Executive Education, Business Strategy and Development, University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration (1996)
*Certificate, Global Strategy, Columbia Business School (1993)
*MA, Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh (1975)
*BA, Communications, University of Pittsburgh (1973)
== Awards and Honors ==
*Best Practice Partner Award, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Business (2004)
*Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (1996)
*Women's Achievement Award, YWCA (1992)
*President’s Award for Excellence in Management, McGraw-Hill (1991)
== References ==
Category:Standard & Poor's Corp.
Category:Standard & Poor's Corp.
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Victor Glava

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Victor Glava is VP Development & CTO at OptionsCity. He co-founded the company with Hazem Dawani, the president and CEO. 
== Background ==
Glava was previously an associate director in the software department at Chicago Trading Company (CTC), where he gained experience in integration. At CTC, Victor led a team of developers and implemented back-end solutions and exchange connectivity to exchanges such as the CBOE, ISE, and EUREX. His technical skills helped enable the company to expand its electronic trading capabilities across seven exchanges. Prior to that, Victor held senior development positions at companies such as Tellabs and ComEd.
== Education ==
Glava has a Masters degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
== References ==
Category:OptionsCity
Category:OptionsCity
Victor J. Valdez

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Victor J. Valdez is chief operating officer and managing executive of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as of September 22, 2014. He was named to that position on September 8, 2014. In that role he oversees project management, information technology, and risk management, among other functions.
Valdez joined the SEC from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), where he was the deputy director of strategic planning and corporate programs for FDIC’s Corporate University. He previously served as the deputy director of strategic planning and resource management in FDIC’s Division of Risk Management Supervision. 
== Background ==
Before joining the FDIC, Valdez was an officer of the Senior National Intelligence Service with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He served with the ODNI as the chief of staff for the National Counterintelligence Executive and chief of staff for the Deputy Director for Operations Support, National Counterterrorism Center. He also served for over 20 years as an officer in the US Air Force. During his varied assignments, Valdez was a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, responsible for investigating criminal, terrorist, and intelligence threats to the Air Force, Department of Defense, and U.S. government.
== Education ==
Valdez received an undergraduate degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He earned graduate degrees in international affairs from Saint Mary’s University (Texas) and in military operational art and science from the Air Command and Staff College. He earned his MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
== References ==
Victor Technologies

Victor Technologies (VTEK) provides trading and risk management applications. The company's applications manage consolidated portfolio risk and provide low-latency/high-frequency market making tools and theoretical pricing engines. VTEK also provides real-time portfolio margin calculations and implied volatility feeds.
== History ==
Victor Technologies was formed when the Gargoyle Group, an options market making firm, spun off its technology arm in 2010. The firm became operational in April and now has about 15 employees.
== Products and Services ==
Victor Technologies provides risk management, options theoretical pricing, high frequency trading and options market making. Its DJALI Risk Management Platform is hosted on VTEK’s own servers and is accessible under a Software as a Service model. Through leveraging NVIDIA GPU technology, it provides continuously calculated risk measures such as valuation, stress testing, exposure, greeks and VaR.
VTEK’s real-time Customer Portfolio Margining (CPM) system allows users to calculate their margin requirements at any time. Whereas the OCC only releases margin requirements at the end of the day, VTEK’s system replicates the OCC’s TIMS margin methodology to allow for intraday margin calculations.
The company also has a Market Volatility Feed (MVF) service, which provides real-time implied volatilities as both underlying and option prices move within the marketplace
. In September of 2014, Victor Technologies announced a partnership with Activ Financial to offer VTEK’s volatility feed as a managed service on Activ’s market data platform.
== Key People ==
*Robert Newhouse, CEO
== References ==
Category:Software Companies
Category:Victor Technologies
Category:Independent Software Vendors
Victoria Greenberg

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Victoria Greenberg is head of derivatives execution, clearing & FX prime brokerage relationship management for the Americas with BNP Paribas Group. In this role, she leads a team responsible for managing and growing relationships with BNPP's institutional and corporate customers.
Greenberg currently serves as a member of the board of Women in Financial Markets, formerly Women in Derivatives.
== Background ==
Before joining BNP Paribas in 2022, Greenberg spent three years as a sales executive within Citibank's Equities and Securities Division, where she also served as Americas' head of prime brokerage solutions and onboarding. From 2004 to 2012, Greenberg held various roles within the FX prime brokerage unit at Deutsche Bank, and from 2012 to 2017, she played an integral role in building out the OTC clearing business at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
== Education ==
Greenberg earned her degree in economics and computer science from New York University. 
== References ==	
Category:Women in Financial Markets Board
Category:Citibank - Former Employees
Category:Deutsche Bank - Former Employees
Victoria Powell

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Victoria Powell oversees program management, public affairs, thought leadership and financial regulations in the area of ESG and the capital markets for the World Federation of Exchanges.
== Background ==
Powell worked for both the UK regulator (FCA) and the EU regulator (ESMA) on the development of regulatory policy. She has led complex transnational projects. Powell served as the regulatory policy director at Ruffer from June 2016 to May 2022, where she focused on implementing regulatory changes, ESG integration, and horizon watching for future changes. She has also worked at the British Bankers' Association (BBA).
== Education ==
Powell has a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Newcastle University. She is also certified in Sustainable Finance by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
==Video==
WFE ESG Exec Victoria Powell sees increased pressure on companies to report on supply chains
== References ==	
Category:UK FCA - Former Employees
Category:Former Regulators
Category:British Bankers' Association - Former Employees
Victoria Silbey

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Victoria Silbey is senior vice president, legal and general counsel of SunGard Data Systems. She has been in the position since 2006 and vice president, legal and general counsel from 2005 to 2006.
== Background ==
Silbey also worked for SunGard in various legal roles from 1997 to 2005. She began her career as a litigation associate with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Philadelphia, PA.
== Education ==
*JD, Law, Cornell Law School (1987 – 1990)
*M.Phil, History, University of Oxford (1985 – 1987)
*B.A., History, Cornell University (1981 – 1985)
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:SunGard Data Systems
Category:SunGard Data Systems