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Varun Pawar

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Varun Pawar is an Indian-American financial services executive currently serving as the chief product officer at the fixed income and data services (FIDS) business of Intercontinental Exchange. In this role, he oversees product development and innovation across indices, entity data, reference data, evaluated pricing for bonds and derivatives, analytics, and data operations globally.
== Early Life and Education ==
Pawar was born and raised in Bangalore, India. He earned his bachelor's degree in finance and accounting from Bangalore University and a master's degree in Finance and Management from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
== Career ==
Before joining ICE, Pawar spent 12 years at Bloomberg, where he headed the Bloomberg evaluated pricing (BVAL) business globally from 2015 to 2019. BVAL provides evaluated pricing for fixed income securities.'
Pawar joined ICE in September 2019 and initially led a team focused on improving the precision of bond evaluation products and developing new products using proprietary data, technology, and human capital. From June 2022 to December 2023, he headed ICE Data Indices, overseeing product development, business strategy, and operations globally.
In his current role as chief product officer at ICE FIDS, which he has held since December 2023, Pawar is responsible for overseeing product development and innovation across a wide range of fixed income and data services offered by ICE.
Pawar's earlier career included stints at Reuters India Pvt Ltd as a senior market analyst from 2004 to 2006 and at MphasiS India as an accounts executive from 2002 to 2003.
=== Acquisitions and Initiatives ===
During Pawar's tenure, ICE has made several strategic acquisitions and launched new initiatives in the fixed income and data space:
*In June 2022, ICE Data Services launched the ICE US Broad Municipal Index (MUNI), tracking the performance of over 58,000 investment-grade tax-exempt municipal bonds.
*In late 2022, ICE agreed to acquire TMC Bonds, an electronic fixed income trading platform, to integrate with ICE's fixed income trading and data business.
*In August 2023, ICE acquired a family of fixed income volatility indices, including the prominent Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate (MOVE) indices, from Bank of America.
*In September 2023, ICE announced plans to launch ETF Hub, a new service for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), following the implementation of Rule 6c-11 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
== References ==	
Category:Bloomberg - Former Employees
Vasco Sousa

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Vasco Sousa was most recently executive vice president, chief services officer at Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT). In this role, which he assumed in October of 2022, he led Trading Technologies’ drive for client service excellence, overseeing service architecture, support operations, global infrastructure, security and onboarding.
He left TT at the end of September 2024 "to pursue new opportunities," TT said.
== Background ==
== Education ==
In 2004, Sousa earned a Bachelor of Science in internet communications and science from The University of Bolton. In 2006, he earned a Bachelor of Science in computer networks management and design from the University of Portsmouth.
== References ==
Vassilis Vergotis

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Vassilis Vergotis is head of strategy for Eurex. He was promoted to that position in November of 2020. He was previously executive vice president for Eurex in the United States, starting on Sept. 1, 2009. 
He heads up Eurex’s presence in the U.S. His staff is responsible for customer relationship management as well as business development. He was responsible for Eurex’s sell-side business development in the Americas.
== Background ==
Prior to his work at Eurex in business development, Vergotis held a variety of roles within Eurex including product development where he played an instrumental role in growing the exchange’s European equity options business. His mix of business and IT skills have also been put to use to help Eurex promote its algorithmic trading solutions.
Vergotis served as a member of the board of trustees of The IFM and stepped down in March of 2015.
== Education ==
Vergotis is an MBA graduate of Cranfield University in the U.K., holds an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) and is fluent in five languages.
== MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology ==
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Vassilis participated in the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology interactive video series. See his responses to the following questions:
*Q1: What is the single greatest opportunity for technology in the financial markets? (June 1, 2011)
*Q3: Whose responsibility is risk management technology today – exchanges, firms, brokers – and what is the best solution for risk management? (July 13, 2011)
== References ==	
Category:The IFM Board of Trustees - Former Members
Category:Eurex
Vega

Vega is the rate of change of an option price relative to a change in volatility. It is one of the greek factor sensitivities used to measure exposures in derivatives portfolios.
Vega is quoted in a way to demonstrate the theoretical price change for every 1 percentage point change in volatility. For example, if the theoretical price is 2.5 and the Vega is showing 0.25, then if the volatility moves from 20% to 21% the theoretical price will increase to 2.75.
Vega is the only greek option value that isn't represented by a real Greek letter. Vega is sometimes called kappa.
The higher the volatility the higher the option prices. The reason for this is that higher volatility means a greater price swings in the stock price, which translates into a greater likelihood for an option to make money by expiration.
With positive Vega, the value of a long option increases when implied volatility increases; it decreases when volatility decreases.
With negative Vega, the value of a short option decreases when implied volatility rises; it increases when volatility goes lower.
== Resources ==
*Option Volatility & Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg ISBN 155738486X
*Dynamic Hedging by Nassim Taleb ISBN 0471152803
*Options As a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan ISBN 0735202389
== References ==
Category:Market Terms
Category:Option Market Terms
Vela

Vela was an independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading that was acquired by Exegy. It provided software that enables clients to execute on their trading strategies and manage risk across multiple fragmented markets, liquidity pools, and data sources. In May of 2021, Vela merged with Exegy and the combined company operated under the Exegy brand.
Vela’s modular stack is accessed through a single set of trading, data and risk APIs and can be delivered as-a-Service from multiple co-location data centers globally. 
With access to more than 200 venues, Vela provides global coverage across all major asset classes. Vela’s clients include traders, market makers, brokers, banks, investment firms, exchanges, and other market participants.
== History ==
Vela started out as Wombat Financial Software in 1997. It acquired Harco Technology 10 years later, in January of 2007.
In 2008, Wombat was acquired by NYSE in 2008 for $200 million. Six years later, Intercontinental Exchange (by then the parent company of NYSE after acquiring the exchange group in late 2012) would sell Wombat to Street Response Laboratories, more commonly known as SR Labs.
As a means of unifying these brands under one roof, SR Labs announced in June 2016 that it would be known as Vela. 
Continuing with its history of expansion, Vela acquired Chicago-based OptionsCity Software in June of 2017. OptionsCity now falls under the Vela banner.
Right on the heels of the OptionsCity deal, Vela announced in July 2017 that it would acquire Object Trading, another provider of direct market access, risk controls and analytics. 
On July 31 2017, Trading Technologies filed a complaint against Vela for trademark infringement, but TT withdrew its lawsuit that November without citing a reason for doing so.
On May 17, 2021, Vela and Exegy merged to become a global leader in low latency market data, trading platforms, and predictive signals. 
== Products and Services ==
Vela’s ticker plant, execution gateways, trading platform, and risk and analytics software provide ultra-low latency technology for electronic low-touch and Direct Market Access (DMA) execution and pricing. 
In February 2019, Vela announced that it had partnered with CoinRoutes to extend Vela's services to the crypto-assets realm. The announcement said that through this partnership, Vela's platform would be able to allow its customers to use its electronic trading platform for trading crypto-assets using technology based on CoinRoute's platform, which aggregates the prices of digital assets across 40 popular crypto exchanges.
== References ==
Category:CoinRoutes
Category:Trading Platforms
Category:Mult-Asset Trading
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Category:Technology Companies
Category:Independent Software Vendors
VelocityShares

VelocityShares LLC creates exchange traded products (ETPs) for sophisticated traders, focusing on the institutional market (both buy-side and sell-side). 
Janus Henderson bought VelocityShares in 2014.
== Products and Services ==
The initial suite of Velocityshares ETNs is focused on volatility trading. It includes the VelocityShares Daily 2X VIX Short-Term ETN, the VelocityShares Daily Long VIX Short-Term ETN, and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN.
On October 17, 2011, VelocityShares launched a suite of eight previous metals-related ETNs on the NYSE Arca stock exchange. They included 3x leveraged long and inverse gold and silver and 2X leveraged long and inverse platinum and palladium ETNs. They represent the first suite of 3x and 2x leveraged long and inverse precious metals exchange traded instruments to be listed in the US.
== Key People ==
*Nick Cherney, CIO & Co-founder
*Richard Hoge, CFO, Chairman & Co-founder
*Kevin Dailey, COO
*Steven Quinn, Head of Distribution
*William Lloyd, Head of Index Products
*Scott Weiner, Head of Quantitative Strategy
== References ==
Category:Exchange products
Category:Exchange Companies
Velocity Clearing

Velocity Clearing is a self-clearing broker-dealer and financial technology company founded in 2003, providing services to retail brokers, online trading platforms, active retail traders, emerging hedge funds, and high-frequency trading groups. The company offers a range of services including execution, clearing, custody, and securities lending, as well as a full suite of trading solutions and technology services.
== History ==
Velocity Clearing was established in 2015 as a specialist provider of hard-to-borrow stock locates. Since then, the company has expanded its services to include prime brokerage, portfolio margin, and options clearing.
== Products and Services ==
=== Services ===
Velocity Clearing offers a comprehensive range of services, including:
* Clearing and custody
* Prime brokerage
* Securities lending
* Risk management
* Order routing and execution
*Trading technology solutions
The company provides both high-touch and low-touch services, leveraging its own infrastructure and established relationships with third parties to facilitate order flow.
== Expansion ==
In 2023, Velocity Clearing reported significant growth across multiple metrics, including a 300% increase in assets under custody and nearly doubling its client base. The company also expanded into Latin American and Asian markets and added new asset classes, including fixed income and derivatives.
In September 2024, Velocity Clearing opened a new office in Chicago to expand its options trading operations and enhance its execution, clearing, and custody services.
== Memberships and Certifications ==
Velocity Clearing is a member of various stock and options exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Market, and Chicago Board Options Exchange. The company is also a member of clearing houses such as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC).
== Key People ==
File:MichaelLogan-CEO.png|Michael Logan, CEO
File:BrianSchaeffer-President.png|Brian Schaeffer, President
File:RobertKalaf-COO.png|Robert Kalaf, Chief Operating Officer & Head Of Prime Services
File:StevenSilver-CMO.png|Frank Bracero, Chief Financial Officer|Steven Silver, Chief Marketing Officer & Global Head Of Sales
File:RalstonRoberts-HeadofMarkets.png|Ralston Roberts, Head Of Global Markets
File:LauraCrawford-ChiefComplianceOfficer.png|Laura Crawford, Chief Compliance Officer
File:GaryWiedman - HeadofClearingOperations.png|Gary Wiedman, Head Of Clearing Operations
File:MunafMerchant-CAO.png|Munaf Merchant, Chief Administrative Officer
File:RobertCalice-CIO.png|Robert Calice, Chief Information Officer
File:MadelynLando-HeadofStrategicAccountManagement.png|Madelyn Lando, Head Of Strategic Account Management
File:RaviJain-CRO.png|Ravi Jain, Chief Risk Officer
File:ChristianMeyer-HeadofClientServices.png|Christian Meyer, Head Of Client Services & Onboarding
File:AnthonyMerola-Treasurer-HeadofFixedIncome.png|Anthony Merola, Treasurer & Head Of Fixed Income
== References ==
Category:Clearing Firms
Category:Brokerage Firms
Category:Technology
Category:Prime Brokerage
Velocity Futures

Velocity Futures is a privately-owned technology-based Introducing Broker. Formerly a futures commission merchant, Velocity was acquired by ILQ in September of 2013 and transformed itself to an Introducing Broker.
Velocity was ranked as number 49 by Futures Magazine in their list of the top 50 futures brokers.
== History ==
Velocity was founded by Jack E. Earnest, Jr. Earnest had previously founded a broker-dealer, CSI.NET, which was a software firm offering solutions to high frequency traders in the equity markets. Earnest left Velocity in October of 2013 after it was acquired by ILQ.
In 2002 to 2004, Velocity was a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange operating a proprietary trading operation. 
Velocity was fined $300,000 by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in August of 2013 when the firm was found guilty for failing to comply with the minimum financial requirements for FCMs.
In 2011, Velocity was fined by the CFTC for ailing to supervise diligently the handling of its customer accounts. It was fined $180,000 and ordered to cease and desist.
== Products and Services ==
Velocity offers a range of trading products and services to professional, experienced non-professional customers. It is registered as an Introducing Broker with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association.
== Key People ==
*Jack E. Earnest, Jr., CEO
*Jamie Marie Larson, Chief Compliance Officer
== References ==
Category:Futures Brokers
Category:Introducing Brokers
Venkat Chary

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Venkat R. Chary is the chairman of the Indian Energy Exchange. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX), and is also an honerary director of Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation.
== Background ==
From 2007 to 2008, Chary was president of the Indo-French Technical Association.
Chary is a former commissioner of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) Mumbai, India. He has served senior positions including as "Finance Secretary" for Maharashtra. He is a former Additional Chief Secretary for the Government of Maharashtra.]]
He was an active participant in MERC's recent decisions on Enron.
== Education ==
== References ==
Venkatesh Ramasamy

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Venkatesh (Venkat) Ramasamy is the executive chairman and co-founder of Sernova Financial, incorporated in 2015. 
Before founding Sernova, he was senior vice president for business services and utilities at Calypso, a technology enterprise that has partnered with Sernova. 
== Background ==
Before joining Calypso Technology, Ramasamy was global co-head of prime services at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he established a cross-asset service for financial institutions. In that role, he led pivotal initiatives providing ETD and OTC clearing, intermediation on rates and FX, portfolio cross-asset financing and cross margining. In the early part of his career, Ramasamy held a number of management roles on the business and IT side at leading global banks; RBS and Dresdner Kleinwort, in its London and Tokyo offices.
== Education ==
Ramasamy has a B.Eng degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
== References ==
Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is what private investors inject into a single business venture, usually a start-up or early-stage private company, whereas growth capital is typically invested in established, publicly-traded companies via the capital markets. Most venture capitalists are either private partnerships or corporations funded by private investment.
== Private pools ==
VC industry group the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) claims that companies backed by venture capital now account for more than $2 trillion in GDP and over 10 million U.S. jobs. The NVCA represents almost 500 venture-capital firms in the U.S. and recently celebrated its 35th anniversary.
The NVCA describes most venture-capitalist firms as pools of private-equity capital organized as a limited partnership that invest in potentially high-growth young companies with a time horizon of five to seven years. Investors can include private individuals, trusts and institutional investors such as pension funds. Many also become involved in the management, planning and marketing of their new venture.
== References ==
Category:Definitions
Category:Investments
Verena Ross

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Verena Ross is the first and current executive director of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She was nominated for a five-year term for this position on Feb. 22, 2011. 
She was chosen from a shortlist of four by the ESMA supervisory board, made up of regulators from all 27 European Union member states.
Starting November 1, 2021, Ross will be the chair of ESMA. Her appointment was confirmed by the Council of the European Union at its October 15, 2021 meeting in Brussels. 
== Background ==
Prior to joining ESMA, Ross was director of the UK Financial Services Authority's International Division from October 2009 until May 2011. She also served as a member of the FSA's executive committee and the executive policy and risk committees.
Before becoming FSA's international director, Ross was the director of the FSA's Strategy & Risk Division, which was responsible for leading the FSA's strategic approach to regulation and risk management, both domestically and internationally.
In 2009, Ross served as co-chair of the IOSCO Task Force on Unregulated Financial Entities.
Ross began her career as an economist at the Bank of England prior to becoming a banking supervisor. From 1998 to 2000 ran the executive chairman’s office for Sir Howard Davies during the creation and early years of the FSA. 
She was also briefly seconded as an advisor to the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong in 2000.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Regulators
Category:Regulators
Verge (XVG)

Verge is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. According to the Verge project's website, there is no entity behind the development of the currency. It depends wholly on voluntary contributions of effort. In mid June 2019 Verge (XVG) was the 57th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization but fell to 92nd place in January 2021, according to CoinMarketCap, an online cryptocurrency industry data aggregator. 
==Background==
Working alone, Verge founder Justin Sunerok (nee Justin Valo and also known as Justin Vendetta) designed and launched DogeCoinDark in 2014. It was later renamed Verge. Its unique selling point was eliminating users IP addresses from the network. 
==Overview==
In January 2021 the Verge website listed more than one hundred geographically diverse businesses that accepted payments in XVG. The largely retail firms ranged from entertainment providers to travel and vacation services.
=== Pumping on porn ===
Pornhub, an adult entertainment website, announced on April 17, 2019, that it would accept Verge in payment for its premium services. The relationship was initiated by Pornhub as the result of a search by the firm for a cryptocurrency appropriate to its business. 
The introduction of the payment alternative was accompanied by a publicity campaign which involved porn industry stars distributing plastic Verge tokens redeemable for real Verge. It was also reportedly preceded by Verge incentivizing the partnership with donations of the equivalent of more than $5 million. 
=== John McAfee Endorsement === 
In a tweet on December 13, 2017, John McAfee, the founder of the eponymously named computer software security company, said, "If you would use your heads you would figure out that the privacy coins (anonymous transactions) will have the greatest future. Coins like Monero (XMR), Verge (XVG), or Zcash (ZEC) cannot lose." Later it was reported that McAfee charges firms $105,000 for each promotional tweet, which comes out to $.13 for each of McAfee's 810,000 followers.
The Verge price went from half of a U.S. cent to $.25 after the tweet. Sixteen days after the initial tweet and after a reported firestorm of controversy about the Verge endorsement, McAfee tweeted, "I recommended Verge when it was less than a penny - saying it might rise 100% to two pennies. The price has been wrongly pumped beyond reason by referencing fake Twitter accounts and Instagrams which I have never had and then I am diss'd when I point out the fraud. Please stop." Shortly thereafter, a large holder of Verge, whose Twitter name is XVG Whale, provided emails that indicated that the endorsement from McAfee had been paid for by XVG Whale and the repudiation of Verge resulted from the deal souring.
McAfee fled the U.S. in early 2019 to avoid charges of criminal tax evasion by tax authorities there. 
 
==References==
Category: digital assets
Category: definitions
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: altcoins
Category: forks
Category: criminal activity
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki