Clear Street

Clear Street is a financial services and technology company building modern infrastructure for capital markets. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company describes its mission as giving sophisticated investors access to every asset in every market through a unified platform designed for speed, transparency and scale. It operates globally, with offices in the United States and other markets.

The company’s platform brings together services across the trading lifecycle, including execution, clearing, custody, settlement, financing and securities lending. Clear Street says it built this infrastructure as a cloud-native system, with real-time data and risk management supported by a unified ledger. Its stated focus is replacing legacy capital-markets technology with systems intended to support complex markets and participants.

Clear Street serves a range of customers, from sophisticated individual traders to hedge funds, institutional investors, market makers, proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers, ETF issuers, family offices and corporate issuers. Its professional services include clearing and prime brokerage capabilities, trading and risk tools, and cash and synthetic financing. The company also provides an individual trading platform for equities, ETFs and options, with features such as market screening, options analysis, alerts and multiple order-routing choices.

Technology and access are central to the company’s offering. Clear Street provides APIs and software development kits for programmatic access to market data, account information and execution. Its individual platform includes Omni, an AI-enabled trading assistant that the company describes as helping users research, analyze risk and develop trade ideas. Clear Street states that the tool supports users’ own decisions and does not provide investment advice or recommendations.

The firm’s background reflects a progression from core clearing operations into a broader capital-markets platform. Its published company history says it began operating a clearing broker-dealer in December 2018, entered prime brokerage in 2019 and processed its first U.S. equities trade in August 2019. Subsequent milestones listed by the company include adding U.S. options, acquiring a professional trading platform, expanding into investment banking and fixed income, and launching services in the United Kingdom.

Clear Street says it aims to give clients technology, tools and service traditionally associated with large institutions, using modern infrastructure. Its public materials emphasize client needs, transparency, risk management and ongoing platform development. The company also describes its intended working environment as one for people who pursue exceptional results and continue to improve; these statements reflect the company’s own published culture and mission language.