Wedbush Global Markets
Capital Markets Infrastructure for a Multi-Asset World.
Today’s Markets. Tomorrow’s Scale.
Wedbush Global Markets brings together multi-asset clearing, brokerage, execution, prime brokerage, risk management, and trading technology into a unified platform built for both today’s capital markets, and tomorrow’s.
Shaping the Future of Financial Markets
Services Tailored to Your Strategy
Supporting institutional, professional, and emerging market participants worldwide, we provide clients with a seamless experience across products, markets, and technologies through a single, integrated relationship.
Infrastructure for What’s Next
Capital markets continue to evolve, from electronic trading and 0DTE options to crypto derivatives, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and products still being invented. Wedbush Global Markets is built to help clients access new markets quickly, safely, and with confidence.
Driven by Innovation
Innovation is fundamental to how we build technology, manage risk, and partner with our clients.
Multi-Asset Clearing & Capabilities
Our clearing platform is designed to support sophisticated institutional trading strategies with reliability, flexibility, and strong risk management.
Capabilities include:
- Equities, Options and Fixed Income
Crypto and Crypto Derivatives
Fixed Income and Repo
Foreign Exchange
- Prediction Markets
- Perpetual Futures
Other emerging Capital Markets products
Multi-asset clearing
Segregated and omnibus account structures
- Institutional margin solutions
- Cross-product collateral optimization
Risk-based margining across asset classes
Real-time risk monitoring
Global exchange connectivity
Dedicated client service teams
Execution, Brokerage & Prime Services
Wedbush provides institutional execution, agency brokerage, and prime brokerage solutions through multiple asset classes.
Our brokerage business serves active traders, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, RIAs, broker-dealers, fintechs, family offices, and institutional investors through customizable trading platforms, advanced order management systems, algorithmic execution, APIs, and dedicated client support.
Services include:
- Agency execution
- Electronic trading
- Institutional brokerage
- Prime brokerage
- Brokerage solutions for active traders, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, RIAs, broker‑dealers, fintechs, and institutional investors
- Algorithmic trading access
- High‑performance trading infrastructure
- Global market access
Our team works closely with clients to develop execution and brokerage solutions that meet their specific trading requirements.
Wedbush Technology Services
Wedbush delivers cutting-edge cloud-based infrastructure, APIs, and platforms for multi-asset trading and clearing across equities, options, futures, FX, and alternatives, empowering broker-dealers, RIAs, and fintechs with automation and real-time innovation.
Capabilities include:
White-label professional trading platforms
Enterprise risk management solutions
Trading and execution APIs
Account management and cashiering APIs
- Real-time position and P&L monitoring
- Cloud-native infrastructure
Market data and analytics
Pre- and post-trade risk controls
Custom integration and development
- Workflow automation and operational tools
Whether clients require turnkey solutions or highly customized workflows, our technology teams work alongside them to deliver practical, scalable solutions.
Our Affiliates
Lightspeed, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wedbush, is a technology‑driven brokerage firm focused on active retail and professional traders. The firm delivers advanced trading platforms, API capabilities, execution services, proprietary technology, and institutional‑grade tools that enhance Wedbush’s clearing, custody, and execution services across a broad range of client segments.
Qapital is a goal-based investing and savings platform owned by Wedbush Financial Services, designed to help users build better financial habits through automation. Powered by Wedbush’s institutional brokerage infrastructure, Qapital combines modern fintech innovation with the strength, security, and regulatory rigor of a leading financial services firm.
Wedbush Financial Services is the largest shareholder in Velocity Trade, a Toronto‑headquartered global broker‑dealer. The partnership expands Wedbush’s multi‑asset execution capabilities, providing clients with access to international markets spanning foreign exchange, derivatives, fixed income, precious metals, and structured products, along with cross‑border investment banking, research, and reciprocal trading capabilities.
Why Wedbush:
Our experienced professionals work as an extension of our clients’ businesses, delivering responsive service, practical expertise, and solutions tailored to each firm’s objectives.
This approach is grounded in the values that have long defined Wedbush: relentless client service, entrepreneurship, innovation, excellence, and financial stability.
Because every client is different, and every opportunity deserves a partner willing to find a way forward.
Wedbush Global Markets Leadership
Rodrigo Parrode
Farid Naib
Executive Managing Partner & Chief Development Officer
Robert Fitzsimmons
Robert Paset
Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Multi-Asset Clearing & Prime Services