Why Us
Imperium Markets currently works with Issuers and Wholesale Investors across the Australian and New Zealand money market and fixed income markets
The First Fintech
Tier 2 Markets Licence
Imperium Markets was the first Fintech in Australia to be granted a Tier 2 markets licence by ASIC to generate greater transparency and efficiency, in what historically has been an opaque market
Imperium Markets was founded by a team of highly experienced money market, fixed income and technology practitioners, all of whom have had extensive day to day experience with the historical analogue process of dealing in financial markets, both as an Issuer or as a Wholesale Investor.
Digital Transformation
Other financial market products have transitioned to new technology and a digital experience, however, the money market and fixed income markets remain opaque, cumbersome and exposed to multiple risk and compliance issues.
The need for the digital transformation of this market is obvious.
Imperium Markets technology solves this requirement by delivering digital
transformation for Issuers and Wholesale Investors alike.
Our Solution
Cloud based platform
A single, secure, digital platform – simple set up and accessible from anywhere, at anytime
Transparency
Simple, transparent and efficient price delivery/discovery and dealing, via a licensed marketplace
Improved Audit and Compliance
Capture all aspects of the dealing process, including dates, quotes, dealers name, time stamps, etc. Ability to view historically at any time
Reduction of key operational risks
Remove use of spreadsheets, multiple deal inputs, key person risk, ability to include segregation of duties approval process
Integration
Ability to integrate into
existing systems and achieve “Straight Through Processing” via our open API infrastructure or simple .csv file transfers
Reporting
Fast and secure reporting environment accessible at the touch of a button
Flexibility
Multi-tenancy, multi-currency capability and on-going platform enhancements are delivered on the back of feedback provided by market users
Enhance relationships
Direct relationships between Issuers and Investors enhanced, not removed. Digital processes provide more time to discuss specific requirements and bespoke solutions
What Sets Us Apart?
By thinking about digital transformation and solving known issues for the entire market, Imperium Markets delivers a number of key market solutions:
- Access to a true technology solution, where outdated, analogue processes are disrupted, not market participants
- Ability to apply secure, cloud hosted technology and automate workflows for all market participants, not just one side
- A tailored technology solution to meet the specific needs of Issuers (banks) and Wholesale Investors
- Continuous release deployment, new features regularly being released into production, driven by user feedback
- Ability for Investors to view, transact, manage compliance and report on their portfolio, via the deposit markets only true digital platform experience
- Ability for Issuers to manage their entire term deposit books, interact and enhance their clients experience, confirm trades, improve compliance, automated reporting and access market data, via the market’s only Term Deposit Dashboard
- An ASIC licensed, organised and structured electronic RFQ market – the only digital execution option in the market for term deposits
- Compliance by design – real time policy management, segregation of duties set up, name, date and time stamping, for all transactions
- Globally recognised security and data encryption at rest and in transit, with all data securely held and backed up in Australia
- Warm introductions between Issuers and new Investors, we do not complete AML/KYC on behalf of Issuers
- No involvement in the deal settlement process, funds are never touched by Imperium Markets
- Individual authorised user access, via individual email and password log in – two factor authentication available
- Imperium Markets offers integration to legacy and third party systems via a variety of connectivity methods, including our open API infrastructure
Our Team
Stu Burns
Chief Executive Officer
Stu has over 20 years’ experience working in Interest Rate Derivatives, Futures, Money Market, Fixed Interest, Structured Credit and Equity Products. He has built and managed businesses for both WBC Financial Markets and CBA Global Markets dealing interest rate products to wholesale investors. As a Director of Longreach Capital Markets (partially owned by JP Morgan) was responsible for the issuance of over $600million of Capital Protected Credit & Equity linked notes. More recently he has been a principal of SR2 Capital and Denison Financial Advisory originating $500million in infrastructure loans and advising on wholesale investors income portfolios.
Rod Lewis
Chairman
Rod has over 30 years’ experience in banking and financial markets. Rod spent 10 years with First Boston Australia as Director of fixed Income and 17 years with CBA Global Markets. Rod’s CBA experience included 6 years as head of Fixed Income trading followed by 5 years as Head of Debt Syndicate. Rod then spent 6 years as Head of Global Markets trading with responsibility for teams trading FX, Commodities, Derivatives and Fixed Income globally. Rod was a member of the AFMA Market Governance committee for 6 years. For the last 4 years Rod has consulted on product design and markets with Yieldbroker, Australia’s largest established electronic market for Australian Interest Rate Securities and Derivatives.
Paul Missio
Chief Information Officer
Paul has over 30 years’ experience in the development of financial technology platforms for Securities Trading, Risk management, Wealth Management, Exchange, Settlements and Regulatory compliance. Paul has worked with and delivered solutions for Australia’s leading financial institutions including Westpac Trading Bank, Macquarie Private Wealth, Sydney Futures Exchange, Austraclear, AMP Capital, Bankers Trust Australia, Macquarie Bank and MLC. Paul has created applications for Equities, Debt markets, FX, Futures, Options and Derivatives.
Simon Teong
Chief Operating Officer
Simon has over 20 years’ experience working in fixed income markets, across financial markets (WBC, St.George, Suncorp), funds management (Perpetual) and investment advisory (Grove Research & Advisory). Having worked across these multiple segments, he brings a broad understanding of the digital transformation required for Issuers, Third Parties and Investors alike. His most recent role was with Westpac Institutional Bank where he was Director, Financial Markets for the last 10 years, where he managed the NSW/ACT sub-institutional term deposit and fixed income sales team.
Tom Rowe
Senior Solutions Specialist
Tom is a treasury professional with applied markets experience gained from roles held in banking, mining and food-manufacturing industries. He brings an in-depth knowledge of foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity markets from a sales, product structuring and hedging policy point of view. He approaches problems with a continuous-improvement/audit mindset specifically looking at where technology can be better utilised to streamline processes, reduce operational risk and improve compliance.
Michael Chandra
Head of Client Advisory
Michael has over 14 years experience working in the financial markets as an analyst, client relationship manager and investment advisor to middle market and institutional clients, in particular, the local government sector. In his current role, Michael is responsible for providing advice on over $3bn of client funds consisting of short and long term interest rate and credit market products, as well as managed funds. By sourcing investment opportunities from ADIs, branches and other financial intermediaries, Michael has continually generated superior returns and enhanced client outcomes. With the strong and consistent long-term outperformance of his clients’ portfolios (even throughout the GFC period), Michael is highly regarded as a leading investment advisor within the local government sector and has been at Imperium Markets since the start of its operations in 2017.
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