Nicholas Lamaina

Nicholas LaMaina currently serves as Managing Director of Kraken Securities, CEO of Kraken Adviser and is a Board Director of Payward Interactive, Kraken’s US Crypto entity. Mr. LaMaina is responsible for Kraken’s global equities brokerage offering and charged with realizing their multi-asset vision. He is the firm’s designated member liaison and customer advocate for various industry groups and committees such as the Security Traders Association (STA), the Options Industry Council (OIC) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). He is commonly featured as a speaker and thought leader on innovation and evolving brokerage solutions and industry trends. Mr. LaMaina is a 25+ year veteran in the multi-asset retail brokerage space building, launching and scaling both digital asset and traditional finance investment and trading offerings both organically and via M&A. He previously served at eToro for three years as its Global Head of Broker Dealer Solutions, at TradeStation for 21 years where he held various executive and senior leadership roles, and in multiple advisory fintech roles, including Coinbase Futures (formerly FairX), launching, transforming, scaling, and maturing global investment and trading solutions. Areas of expertise include Equities, Options, Futures, Futures Options, Forex, CFDs, and Crypto market structure, electronic trading technology, smart order routing, best execution, and algos, position, risk, and credit management, front, middle, and back office Integration, regulatory reporting and controls.