What we do
Essential services. No excess.
Roaches provides the core infrastructure that professional market participants need: execution, clearing, prime brokerage and risk solutions. Nothing more, nothing less.
Execution
Electronic-first order execution across all asset classes.
We route orders through our proprietary execution stack with no voice desk latency, no manual intervention and no last look. Direct market access to major exchanges and OTC venues globally. Smart order routing, algorithmic execution and DMA — all through a single connection.
Capabilities
- Direct market access (DMA)
- Algorithmic execution
- Smart order routing (SOR)
- Low-latency co-location
- FIX API connectivity
Clearing
Straight-through clearing across listed and OTC markets.
We provide clearing services for exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, with full straight-through processing and real-time margin management. Our clearing infrastructure is built for speed and resilience — no manual reconciliation, no overnight surprises.
Capabilities
- Listed derivatives clearing
- OTC derivatives clearing
- Real-time margin management
- Straight-through processing (STP)
- Multi-currency collateral
Prime Brokerage
Capital efficiency for professional trading firms.
We offer prime brokerage services to hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and institutional clients who need consolidated execution, financing and reporting across multiple asset classes. One relationship, one margin pool, one view of risk.
Capabilities
- Consolidated execution and clearing
- Cross-asset margin netting
- Securities financing
- Portfolio reporting
- Risk analytics
Risk Solutions
Hedging and structured solutions for commercial clients.
We work with commodity producers, consumers and financial institutions to design and execute hedging programmes that reduce price risk without adding operational complexity. Our approach is systematic, transparent and built around your actual exposure — not a product catalogue.
Capabilities
- Commodity price hedging
- FX risk management
- Interest rate hedging
- Structured solutions
- Exposure analysis
Regulatory standing
Fully regulated. No exceptions.
Some brokerages are regulated in the jurisdictions that suit them. We are regulated in the jurisdictions where we operate. That is not the same thing. Roaches holds full authorisation from the FCA and operates under MiFID II, EMIR, and CFTC/NFA frameworks — not because we had to, but because our clients require counterparties who can demonstrate it.
Our compliance infrastructure is not a legal department bolted onto a trading business. It is built into the architecture of the firm from day one. Onboarding, KYC, transaction reporting, best execution obligations, capital adequacy — every client relationship is subject to the same standards regardless of size, asset class or geography.
We maintain capital buffers above regulatory minimums. We report to regulators on schedule. We respond to audits without delay. We do not operate through lighter-touch regimes, offshore structures, or regulatory arbitrage. If a client's compliance team needs to verify our standing, every authorisation is on the public register.
Financial Conduct Authority — UK authorised investment firm. Verifiable on the FCA register.
Full compliance including best execution obligations, transaction reporting, and systematic internaliser rules.
European Market Infrastructure Regulation — OTC derivatives reporting, clearing thresholds, and risk mitigation.
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and National Futures Association — registered and in good standing.
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book — market risk capital framework fully implemented ahead of deadline.
Full anti-money laundering and know-your-customer programme. No client onboarded without complete verification.
Regulatory authorisation details are verifiable through the FCA register, NFA BASIC, and the relevant EU national competent authority registers. Available on request.
Independence
A brokerage. Nothing else.
Some firms in this industry have become difficult to categorise. They started as brokerages. Then they became holding companies. Then they became political vehicles. Then they became something else entirely — and their clients were left wondering whether the firm's priorities still aligned with theirs.
Roaches is a brokerage. We execute trades, clear positions, manage risk, and custody assets. We do not have a government affairs division. We do not have a SPAC pipeline. We do not have a founder whose public profile has become larger than the firm's actual business. We have not pivoted. We have not diversified into adjacencies that have nothing to do with markets.
Our leadership's interests are aligned with client outcomes because that is the only business we are in. When you place an order with Roaches, the firm's entire attention is on executing it well. There is nothing else competing for that attention.
No political entanglements
We do not lobby. We do not cultivate government relationships as a business strategy. We do not benefit from regulatory outcomes we helped engineer.
No holding company structure
Roaches is the business. There is no parent entity with competing priorities, no subsidiary that benefits from your flow, no cross-subsidy arrangement obscuring where the money goes.
No founder distraction
Our leadership runs the brokerage. That is their full-time occupation. Client relationships are not a platform for anything other than executing trades and managing risk.
No undisclosed conflicts
Every conflict of interest is disclosed. Every related-party arrangement is documented. Our compliance team does not work for the business — they work for the client.
Speak to our team.
Tell us what you need. We'll tell you whether we can do it.