Andrew, congratulations on oneZero’s first acquisition. What drove the choice to convey Autochartist into the enterprise?
We’ve admired Autochartist for a very long time – not only for their sturdy analytics capabilities, however for his or her concentrate on content material personalization and buyer engagement. The acquisition aligned completely with our mission to ship modern, high-performance options that serve the total commerce lifecycle. Autochartist‘s providing enhances oneZero’s core infrastructure, and collectively, we’re constructing a extra clever, and personalised, end-to-end expertise for our purchasers – from pricing and liquidity all the best way to buyer engagement and retention.
As our business matures, the necessity for built-in, value-driven expertise stacks turns into more and more clear, as corporations should transfer past fragmented level options to ship effectivity, scalability and measurable impression.
We have been delighted to launch oneZero’s new Market Analytics Platform that mixes over 15 years of Autochartist’s market analytics experience with oneZero’s sturdy infrastructure and 24/7 buyer companies. Autochartist’s founder Ilan Azbel now oversees oneZero’s Engagement product line, and together with the scaled crew of specialists he constructed through the years, can now leverage scaled elements of oneZero’s infrastructure to proceed to innovate on a line of merchandise – aimed toward encouraging engagement for capital markets’ individuals.
How did your partnership with Golden Gate Capital assist make this deal attainable?
Our partnership with Golden Gate Capital has been instrumental in enabling us to pursue strategic, growth-focused alternatives just like the Autochartist acquisition. Their backing gave us each the monetary flexibility and strategic help to maneuver decisively when the chance aligned. Golden Gate has an extended historical past of investing in expertise leaders and serving to them scale thoughtfully – and that’s precisely what they’re serving to us do.
We now have two monetary companions supporting oneZero’s journey – Golden Gate Capital and Lovell Minnick Companions – giving us a robust basis for each natural innovation and strategic M&A. Having this stage of backing permits us to assume long-term, and put money into initiatives that unlock worth for our purchasers.
With consolidation rising in buying and selling expertise, ought to we anticipate extra acquisitions from oneZero sooner or later?
Sure, what we’re doing with Autochartist displays oneZero’s broader imaginative and prescient: bringing collectively best-in-class capabilities that, when unified, create exponential worth for our purchasers. Integrating firms helps drive funding and development in each firms – on this case, we’re investing into the Autochartist / Market Analytics Platform whereas leveraging oneZero’s infrastructure and scale to allow development. We see actual alternative in persevering with to determine corporations with complementary applied sciences and shared values. This contains each constructing options that profit our purchasers, and likewise a crew tradition that encourages innovation. So sure, we’re open to future acquisitions the place the synergy is obvious, and the profit to the consumer is mutual and measurable.
Turning to innovation, what are a number of the key product developments you’ve delivered in 2025, whereas additionally integrating the brand new Engagement line?
It’s been a really productive yr. Underneath Invoice Neuman’s management as Chief Product Officer, we’ve accelerated our roadmap and improved supply pace, stability, and safety of our core product traces.
One main spotlight in product improvement this yr has been our Swap Curve Supervisor, an modern resolution designed to remodel FX swap pricing for regional banks. Historically, banks have relied on exterior, third-party techniques that restricted dealer management and slowed responsiveness. oneZero’s Swap Curve Supervisor addresses these challenges by delivering a scalable, cost-efficient resolution that returns management to merchants.
On the analytics facet, final December we launched our Yr in Assessment Dashboard that helps purchasers benchmark their efficiency throughout the oneZero EcoSystem, whereas instruments like Liquidity Supplier Insights and P&L Insights supply deeper visibility into profitability and buying and selling outcomes. Purchasers are utilizing these to refine methods and enhance margins – some reporting as much as 25% positive aspects in profitability via smarter routing and behavioral analytics.
We additionally launched Vendor Intervention Workflows to enhance operational effectivity for high-touch commerce dealing with, decreasing guide overhead and rising gross sales desk responsiveness.
And naturally, our acquisition of Autochartist superior our macro-analytics providing, and I’m excited to work with Ilan to unveil extra of what we’ve got deliberate for options that allow engagement sooner or later.
With the mixed efforts on innovating and integrating new merchandise, how did the platform maintain up throughout the volatility in March and April, which examined many infrastructure suppliers?
That interval was an actual stress check, and I’m proud to say we exceeded expectations. Our platform dealt with file volumes with over 99.99% uptime. Purchasers had uninterrupted entry to pricing and analytics, permitting them to adapt methods in actual time. It bolstered our position as a mission-critical companion to our purchasers.
You’ve additionally made some senior appointments lately, together with Adam Collins as Head of Institutional Gross sales – Americas and EMEA. How do these strikes tie into your development technique following the Autochartist acquisition?
Bringing in leaders like Adam Collins may be very a lot a part of our broader M&A method. If you combine a enterprise, you’re not simply aligning expertise – you’re aligning consumer relationships, gross sales constructions, and go-to-market methods. Adam’s deep expertise in institutional gross sales will assist us be sure that our expanded product set reaches the best purchasers in the best method.
We’ve additionally added Ann Neidenbach to our Board and promoted Lynnette Yeo to SVP of International Relationship Administration. These appointments mirror our concentrate on constructing a management framework that may each take up acquisitions successfully and scale globally, strengthening our capability to ship on the promise of consolidation: making a platform that’s better than the sum of its elements.
The Autochartist crew have instantly turn out to be a part of our personal tightly knit neighborhood
oneZero has picked up a number of firm awards this yr. How do accolades like these affect your tradition and drive for innovation?
Recognition like being named a worldwide Greatest Place to Work for the fourth consecutive yr working makes us actually proud. Importantly, it additionally validates our capability to combine new groups and protect a robust tradition throughout instances of change. Awards spotlight not simply innovation, but in addition our capability to develop via M&A with out shedding our cultural DNA. The Autochartist crew, for instance, instantly turned a part of our tightly knit crew – as we noticed when our new colleagues from South Africa have been capable of join with the worldwide crew at Camp oneZero in New Hampshire in Could.
On a lighter notice, I hear the crew enjoys golf. Are you able to inform us about your partnership with model ambassador Alexa Pano?
Many people are eager golfers, and we’re proud to help rising LPGA star Alexa Pano. Partnerships like this are about constructing neighborhood and engagement, which is identical philosophy we’ve utilized post-acquisition. Bringing Autochartist into oneZero wasn’t nearly including expertise, it was about strengthening how we join with purchasers, and the way they join with their prospects. Engagement and relationships are the widespread thread – whether or not it’s via sport, tradition, or expertise.
We sit up for having Alexa be a part of us at many extra occasions sooner or later, and the crew cheering her on when she competes, like we did when she performed in her dwelling state and oneZero HQ at TPC Boston final month.
Past that, oneZero has additionally appeared on the Inc. 5000 listing of the quickest rising personal firms in America once more. What does that recognition imply to you and your crew?
It’s an actual level of delight. Sustained development is a mirrored image of each our inner innovation and our capability to determine and combine complementary companies. Making the Inc. 5000 listing 4 years in a row exhibits that we’ve been capable of scale responsibly.
UNDER ILAN AZBEL’S GUIDANCE AS CEO, AUTOCHARTIST GREW FROM BEING A SUPPLIER OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS, TO A COMPANY PROVIDING A BROAD SPECTRUM OF AUTOMATED ANALYTICS AND CONTENT BASED ON TECHNICAL, MACRO-ECONOMIC AND FUNDAMENTAL INFORMATION
You’ve been increasing globally with new workplaces in a number of areas. How is that this shaping the expertise to your purchasers?
In 2025, we’ve made strategic investments in increasing our international footprint to raised serve purchasers throughout key markets. By being nearer to our purchasers, we enhance responsiveness, deepen relationships, and speed up innovation – guaranteeing oneZero stays a really international expertise companion that may adapt shortly to evolving market calls for.
We lately opened new workplaces in Limassol, Cyprus, and Sydney, Australia, along with the brand new oneZero workplace in Johannesburg, South Africa, that homes a number of the crew from Autochartist. It’s improbable to have a presence in South Africa and to be increasing the crew there as we make investments additional on this new product space.
Lastly, what can we anticipate to see from oneZero and the markets as we method the tip of 2025?
Firstly, we must always see extra worth creation on the again of realizing synergies with Autochartist. I sit up for working carefully with Ilan Azbel and the Autochartist crew to make that occur, and to showcase these options and others on the quite a few conferences we’ll be attending globally over the subsequent few months. On the similar time, because the markets brace for elevated volatility – together with anticipated elevated volatility within the crypto buying and selling market – the necessity for a sturdy, dependable and high-performance platform and back-end is obvious, and oneZero continues to be as much as the problem!
