About Us

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Brad J. Bailey is a Capital Markets FinTech Consultant. He is an expert SME in electronic trading and is a recognized thought leader in emerging front-office technology, data analytics, and capital markets fintech. He is Managing Director for Data Bourse LLC, based in Princeton, NJ. 

Brad’s capital markets strategy and technology consulting work centers on digital transformation in the capital markets, cloud transformation, outsourcing, and fintech business models in the front office for clients from the buy and sell side, market infrastructure, and technology vendors. He also advises and performs due diligence for venture, strategic, and private equity investors.

Brad has 20+ years in the capital markets in trading, technology systems, product, strategy, market structure, and institutional sales. He was the research director for Celent, a senior consultant at Oliver Wyman, and head of market intelligence for fintech Clear Street. He also had analyst, trading, business development, and strategy roles at investment banks and broker-dealers, including the predecessor of Virtu Financial and RBC Carlin. He served on the boards of markets technology start-ups and an exchange. He began his career as a software engineer.

An authority on capital market fintech, Brad has been widely quoted in the press, including the Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Forbes, USA Today, Traders, and the New York Post, as well as appearing on Bloomberg TV, BBC News, Sirius Radio, NPR and a variety of podcasts. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and client gatherings globally.

Brad holds an MSc from the University of Colorado in Boulder and a BS in engineering from Rutgers University.