About Us

Company history

From day one, we decided that HQLA^x would be a platform built by the market, for the market.

Founded by financial market practitioners in search of a solution:

HQLA^x was born out of first-hand experience of the frustrations and pain-points deriving from inefficient collateral mobility.

Developed in partnership with Tier 1 organisations:

Global Custodians and Triparty Agents including Bank of New York Mellon, BNP Securities Services, Citibank, Clearstream, Euroclear, and J.P. Morgan.

Based in Luxembourg and regulated by the CSSF:
HQLA^xis regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier as an authorized IT systems and communication networks operator of the financial sector, under the category of support professionals of the financial sector (“support PFS”).

Guido Stroemer

Co-founder and CEO

Guido is a financial market veteran with over 25 years of professional work experience in a variety of trading, risk management and senior leadership positions, most recently as global head of repo trading at UBS.

Olly Benkert

Co-founder and Chairman

Olly is an Investment Banking veteran having spent over two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Jens Hachmeister

Managing Director, DLT Assets -
Deutsche Börse

Jens Hachmeister is part of the management team of Deutsche Börse Group and with the company since 2000. After holding a number of management positions such as Chief HR Officer and Chief of Staff, he is now focusing on new technologies. As a Managing Director Jens is responsible for the group wide business development in the field of DLT, Digital Assets and New Market Structures since April 2018. Prior to joining DBG he initially worked as a management consultant at KPMG. Jens Hachmeister holds a degree in business administration.

Mathew McDermott

Managing Director - Global Head of
Digital Assets - Goldman Sachs

Mathew is global head of Digital Assets for Goldman Sachs, having held a number of different roles since joining in 2005, most recently global head of Cross Asset Financing. Mathew is a board member of the International Securities Lending Association and serves on a number of committees at GS, notably the Goldman Sachs International Asset and Liability Committee and the Goldman Sachs International Bank Management Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Mathew worked at Morgan Stanley.

Marton Szigeti

Global Head - Banking, Funding
and Financing - Clearstream

Marton Szigeti is the Clearstream Global Head of Banking, Funding and Financing. Prior to joining Clearstream, Marton spent 7 years at Deutsche Bank, where he held a variety of senior roles. He also spent time at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan where he focused on market structure strategy and principal strategic investments.

Jamie Anderson

Managing Director,
Global Head of Collateral Treasury Trading - HSBC

Jamie Anderson’s primary responsibility is the Global Head of Collateral Treasury Trading, based in London. His remit includes managing the funding and liquidity for Global Markets division, cross asset collateral optimisation as well as providing secured financing solutions for clients. He also manages Financial Resource Optimisation for Securities Financing and jointly leads the Prime Services Client Pricing and Analytics Team. Jamie has 20+ years of securities finance experience. Prior to working at HSBC he held trading roles at Citadel in the Portfolio Financing area and JPMorgan/Bear Stearns in Prime Finance. He started his career at Goldman Sachs.

Kelly Mathieson

Chief Business Development Officer at Digital Asset

Kelly Mathieson is Chief Business Development Officer at Digital Asset, driving growth for the Canton Network, a privacy-enabled, interoperable Layer-1 blockchain. An Executive Management team member since 2016, Kelly spent three decades at J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs in senior banking, asset management and securities services roles, including leading J.P. Morgan’s Global Collateral Management and Securities Clearing.
She serves on Jaid.io’s board and advises Oxford University’s board and their Creative Destruction Lab. Recognitions include Global Custodian’s 2018 Person of the Year and American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking to Watch.

Horacio Barakat

Global Head of Digital Innovation at Broadridge

Horacio Barakat is Global Head of Digital Innovation for Broadridge, leading the development of digital solutions, driving product strategy, investments and product go-to-market. Prior to this role, Horacio was the Co-Head of Fixed Income post-trade platforms.