Singapore – Cloud-native financial infrastructure firm Clear Street has named Stephen Nash as Chief Business Officer, Global Partnerships, a newly created role focused on expanding the Company’s reach among foreign banks, fintechs, and financial institutions.
Nash will lead commercial strategy for Clear Street’s work with these institutions, which use the Company’s infrastructure to offer their own clients access to U.S. markets, according to Clear Street.
The appointment comes as Clear Street continues to expand its global footprint, extending its embedded brokerage and API business to institutions serving investors worldwide.
Commenting on the appointment, Uri Cohen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Clear Street, said, “Our global build continues at a rapid pace, and global partnerships are the natural next step, extending our platform to the institutions serving millions of investors around the world. An opportunity of that scale demands leadership that has lived on both sides of the business, and Stephen brings it.”
Prior to joining Clear Street, Nash spent nearly nine years at DriveWealth, most recently serving as Chief Commercial Officer, where he led global commercial strategy for the brokerage-infrastructure platform that enables banks, fintechs and financial institutions to offer investing services to their customers.
During his tenure at DriveWealth, Nash built and led partnerships across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, working with a range of sophisticated brokers and digital disrupters, including Toss Securities.
Before DriveWealth, Nash spent a decade in cross-border capital markets banking, co-heading the International Markets Group at Cowen and Company, now known as TD Cowen.
He also held earlier roles at Piper Jaffray, now Piper Sandler, and at Citigroup.
Speaking on his appointment, Nash stated, “I’ve spent my career around the evolving complexity of cross-border capital markets, first as a banker bringing foreign issuers into the U.S., then helping institutions bring their own customers in.”
“Clear Street’s infrastructure was built and proven for the most demanding institutional clients in the market, and extending that same standard to banks, brokers and fintechs around the world is the opportunity I came here to deliver,” Nash added.
Clear Street positions itself as a cloud-native financial infrastructure technology firm working to give sophisticated investors access to every asset in every market.
With Nash’s appointment, the Company is signalling a continued push into global partnerships, as it looks to broaden the reach of its brokerage and API infrastructure among institutions overseas.
