Former Goldman Sachs and BlackRock Veteran Brings Over 22 Years of Experience Building Ultra-low Latency Trading and Risk Management Systems
New York, NY, May 20, 2021 – Apifiny, a global digital asset trading and mining network, today announced it has hired Jason Jiang as chief technology officer in preparation for the company’s anticipated, planned public offering. With over 22 years of experience designing and building professional trading solutions for financial services professionals, Mr. Jiang’s background includes significant experience in building ultra-low latency trading and risk management systems and co-location, exposure to the full technology stack from hardware, networking and full software development life cycle (SDLC) to automated trading controls.
As CTO of Apifiny, Mr. Jiang will serve as the technical lead in continuing to develop and improve its digital asset trading platform for professional traders across a wide range of exchanges and across the globe to maximize global liquidity, best prices, and profits.
Prior to joining Apifiny, Jason served as vice president at Goldman Sachs, where he led technical development efforts within the company’s Global Markets Division, overseeing Quantitative Trading, Electronic Market Development, and Custom Algo Research groups.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Jason was a vice president and software development manager for the Financial Modeling group at Blackrock, where he designed and developed BlackRock’s Fixed Income Analytics System (ANSERTM) from scratch.
“Jason brings a wealth of financial services experience to Apifiny and is ideally positioned to strengthen our solutions and market competitiveness as we look to transform and unify the global crypto market,” said Haohan Xu, chief executive officer of Apifiny. “We are uniquely positioned to become the de-facto global crypto marketplace for trading professionals, connecting all of the world’s exchanges via one, unified interface.”
“Right now the crypto market is highly fragmented, consisting of many trading ‘lakes’ but no canals connecting them. Apifiny aims to be that network of canals,” said Jason Jiang, CTO of Apifiny. “By connecting all of the world’s exchanges via one interface, Apifiny is poised to transform the crypto landscape as we know it.”
Apifiny is growing rapidly with a customer roster that now includes the top 5 US exchanges and 23 of the top 100 global exchanges by trading volume, across 12 countries and 5 continents.
Apifiny connects professional traders with over 20 exchange partners to execute global trading strategies at the best global prices. Apifiny has added 10 new exchanges over the past 3 months, including Crypto.com, Huobi Global, OKEx, Kucoin, AscendEX, HBTC and Blockchain.com’s Exchange, among others.
About Apifiny
Apifiny is a leading global digital asset trading and mining network. Apifiny unifies fragmented global trading marketplaces to provide professional traders and digital asset exchanges with simpler, faster, and more cost-effective, global trading and liquidity solutions. The company connects centralized financial institutions with decentralized networks to reimagine the global liquidity and trading value chains. Apifiny’s trading network enables professional traders to execute global, multi-exchange strategies, access deep global liquidity, superior price discovery, normalized market data, tighter spreads, and higher fill rates and capital utilization. For more information, visit https://www.apifiny.com/.
