ABEX

ABEX is a London-based fintech company that provides institutional-grade algorithmic execution solutions for the digital asset markets. Founded in 2022 by Erkan Kaya and co-founded alongside Christian Gressel, ABEX is building the infrastructure for the next generation of crypto trading by bringing the same quant-driven, ultra-low-latency execution standards that underpin traditional finance to the fragmented and rapidly maturing digital asset landscape.

Institutional participants in digital asset markets — hedge funds, OTC desks, prime brokers, and asset managers — face a persistent challenge: liquidity is scattered across centralised exchanges, DeFi protocols, and market makers, making it nearly impossible to achieve best execution at scale. In traditional finance, algorithmic agency trading is standard practice; in crypto, it remains largely absent, exposing institutions to regulatory risk and suboptimal outcomes.

ABEX's trading engine, built in C++ for ultra-low latency, matches the performance of leading market makers and applies machine learning-driven strategies for trade planning, short-term price forecasting, and order routing. A continuous feedback loop trained on proprietary anonymised execution data allows the platform to adapt to evolving market structure in real time, while its Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) tooling brings a level of transparency to crypto execution that has been unavailable until now.

ABEX is registered with the FCA for cryptoasset activities and raised $6M (approximately £5M) from MMC Ventures in March 2025 to scale its engineering and research teams. The company plans to expand into matched principal trading and derivatives, and has identified the EU and APAC regions as key expansion targets.