Connor Coughlin currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Apex Fintech Solutions and has been with the company for six years, prior to which he was at AFS’ parent company PEAK6 Investments. At Apex Connor has held a number of roles across analytics, strategy, business development, corporate development and now runs their retail business line focusing on fintech brokerage, both domestic and international, as well as wealth management. Connor received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in political science and computer science.
"We are the pipes and plumbing behind the fintech brokerage industry. That’s why we have this data across those 25 million plus accounts…We are able to see what people are doing, everyone from a small robo with less than $100 in it to highly sophisticated traders using margin and options and trading on a very active basis. We can compare by generation, by type of business model…and we can see exactly how they are reacting to the market."
Community banks and credit unions are the backbone(s) of the US economy.
Oklahoma-based First Fidelity Bank is the first customer to go live with the services offered by the partnership.
Connor Coughlin, Chief Commercial Officer at Apex Fintech Solutions, joins Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks from the Empire Fintech Conference to discuss how finance is bleeding into different areas of consumers’ lives.
Connor Coughlin, the chief commercial officer at Apex Fintech Solutions, said the company calls itself "the fintech for fintechs." "We are the pipes and plumbing behind the fintech brokerage industry," he said. He spoke with John Lothian News recently about the trading differences between generations, investor behavior during the recession, and Apex's expansion into fixed income and alternative brokerage.