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Mayur Kapani
Senior Vice President, Technology
Intercontinental Exchange
PNR

If a career in trading technology is long enough, it likely bears witness to some early breakthroughs in market automation. For Mayur Kapani that happened at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in the mid-1990s: He wrote software that automated the printing of tickets directly from the trading floor, and he had a hand in migrating what is now the Nasdaq-owned PHLX options exchange to a hybrid electronic-human operation. After a decade in Philadelphia, where he rose to vice president of options development, Kapani moved in 2006 to Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange as a vice president of its futures exchange. Today, ICE owns seven futures exchanges, and Kapani, senior vice president of technology since 2013, has responsibility for all. Besides overseeing the global tech strategies of ICE and NYSE Group markets, the 47-year-old is involved in start-up businesses like the ICE Trade Vault data repositories and ICE Benchmark Administration, as well as the postmerger integrations of market data company Interactive Data Corp. and European energy-trading-systems provider Trayport. With IDC, which ICE bought for $5.2 billion in December, Kapani is working to accelerate the delivery of fixed-income prices via the Continuous Evaluated Pricing service. “Even for computation-heavy analytics and information [in fixed income], people want it in real time,” he notes. Kapani, who has a bachelor’s of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, says ICE is addressing blockchain in earnest this year. “Many other exchanges and financial institutions are hyped about the technology and looking at blockchain as a technology problem rather than a business problem first,” he says. “We’re looking at where the customer will see value and take that as a use case to implement, rather than the other way around.”

 
2016 Trading Technology 40

1. Raymond Tierney III Bloomberg 2. Richard Prager BlackRock Private Markets Investment Outlook Q2 2025: Opportunities Amid Uncertainty Sponsored by Schroders Capital May 1, 2025 3. Chris Isaacson BATS Global Markets 4. Jonathan Ross KCG Holdings 5. Bradley Peterson Nasdaq

6. Brad Levy Markit 7. Dan Keegan Citi 8. Ronald DePoalo Fidelity Institutional 9. Raj Mahajan Goldman Sachs Group 10. Ari Studnitzer CME Group

11. Mayur Kapani Intercontinental Exchange 12. Gerald O’Connell CBOE Holdings 13. Nicholas Themelis MarketAxess Holdings 14. Gil Mandelzis EBS BrokerTec (ICAP) 15. Bill Chow and Richard Leung Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

16. Rob Park IEX Group 17. Philip Weisberg Thomson Reuters 18. John Mackay (Mack) Gill MillenniumIT 19. Robert Cornish International Securities Exchange 20. Paul Hamill Citadel Securities

21. Eric Noll Convergex 22. Tyler Moeller and Joshua Walsky Broadway Technology 23. Rishi Nangalia REDI Holdings 24. Veronica Augustsson Cinnober Financial Technology 25. Alasdair Haynes Aquis Exchange

26. Manoj Narang Mana Partners 27. Gaurav Suri Arcesium 28. Robert Sloan S3 Partners 29. Anton Katz and Stephen Mock AQR Capital Mgmt 30. Stu Taylor Algomi

31. D. Keith Ross Jr. PDQ Enterprises 32. Donal Byrne Corvil 33. Alfred Eskandar Portware 34. R. Cromwell Coulson OTC Markets Group 35. Masayuki Hosaka Rakuten

36. Peter Maragos and David Karat Dash Financial 37. Amar Kuchinad Electronifie 38. Jennifer Nayar SR Labs 39. Dave Snowdon Metamako 40. Dan Raju Tradier