FAQs

General FAQ

What is TELK?
TELK is a global B2B financial technology (FinTech) company dedicated to bringing transparency in the traditional finance and digital assets markets. We help organizations with:

• (1) Building and managing electronic trading platforms and exchanges (Equities, Fixed Income, ETFs, Options, FX), Order & Execution Management platforms, Clearing, Custody and Settlement platforms, and Research Marketplaces.
• (2) Digital Assets/Web3/Crypto/DeFi: Building and managing institutional-grade trading platforms for spot and derivatives, CEXs, DEXs, RFQ platforms for OTC trading, Liquidity Aggregation, Custody platforms, RWAs, Asset Tokenization and Stablecoin products.

TELK started off with the goal to democratize access to financial independence and economic freedom around the world. Towards that end it is an early-stage TELK operated and innovative platform for financial learning and investment research. TELK brought the best investment ideas in traditional finance, through its network of research providers — coupled with learning and virtual analyst programs to provide research analysis and insights. We partnered with a diverse set of providers that included macroeconomics, fundamental, sector-specific, quantitative, special situations, micro-cap, and technical analysis research. The primary consumers of this research were Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), and similar leaders who were looking for non-Wall-Street independent and original ideas. We launched the web teaching and alpha share for the RIA and smaller leading fund community.

With the growing adoption of digital assets, and driven by our mission to accelerate this adoption among institutions while promoting greater economic freedom worldwide, we are now dedicated to helping institutions build the most innovative and trusted platforms globally—one that seamlessly supports the entire institutional trading lifecycle.

TELK employees have held prior roles of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Product Manager, VP of Product, Head of Engineering, VP of Operations at various startups to help their product buildout and go-to-market strategies.

What is TELK’s goal?
TELK’s goal is to help organizations be customer obsessed and help build the best possible solutions for their end customers — this could include building cutting edge trading platforms, or an AI-powered liquidity aggregation platform, or building a research marketplace or providing trading transparency through pre-trade or post-trade analytics.

How do you differentiate yourself from other firms?
TELK operates at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets. We leverage the collective experience of more than 100 years of our employees and advisors in the capital markets space, and the products and companies that our team has built and managed: electronic trading, liquidity aggregation, and trading analytics platforms that generated in excess of $100M ARR at leading financial institutions such as Optiver, Lehman Brothers, Thomson Reuters (Refinitiv), Bloomberg, Tower Research, Credit Suisse, Barclays, BAML, Standard Chartered, and SGX Group.

Who is your target audience?
Our target audience includes institutions using traditional finance/capital markets or digital assets/crypto from centralized/decentralized trading platforms. Our asset class expertise includes equities, ETFs, fixed income, FX, Futures and Options in traditional financial assets, and cryptocurrencies in digital assets.

Can I trade through TELK?
No, at the moment, TELK is a pure financial technology firm and not a broker/dealer.

Is TELK an Investment Advisor?
No, TELK is not an Investment Advisor. We are a pure financial technology firm.