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Genesis Global
Stephen Murphy and James Harrison launched Genesis Global in London in 2015, drawing on senior engineering roles at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and...
Genesis Global
Stephen Murphy and James Harrison launched Genesis Global in London in 2015, drawing on senior engineering roles at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and HSBC. The founding thesis was simple: capital-markets software remained hand-coded, brittle, and absurdly expensive decades into the electronic-trading era. Their answer is a modular development platform that abstracts asset-class logic into reusable components — a build-once, deploy-anywhere architecture sold to banks and asset managers. Strategy is a pure-play enterprise software model targeting trading, risk, and post-trade operations. The Genesis Application Platform covers fixed income, equities, FX, and structured products, with clients building tools that range from electronic trade matching to primary-bond-market investment workflows. Confirmed deployments include a rebuild of Neptune Networks’ fixed-income axe-data hub — processing over one billion FIX messages per day across 120 dealers — and T. Rowe Price’s new-issue application for a $208 billion fixed-income business spanning its global trading hubs. ING’s managing director publicly credited the platform with reducing operational risk tied to spreadsheets, which ING estimated contained errors in 88 percent of cases. The firm employs teams in London, New York, Dublin, and Bangalore, with additional hubs across the US and Brazil. It has raised $246.8 million across three rounds since 2019, most recently a $200 million Series C in 2022. That same year Tej Sidhu joined as CTO and was later named President and Chief Product Officer. Genesis has not disclosed an AUM — it sells software, not managed capital — but its revenue base is visible through marquee references including ING, T. Rowe Price, and Neptune Networks. Genesis sits at the intersection of two structural shifts: the ongoing migration of bank technology stacks toward component-based architectures, and regulatory pressure to replace error-prone manual processes in middle-office and post-trade workflows. Unlike horizontal low-code vendors, Genesis ships with capital-markets asset-class logic built in — a domain-specific approach that derived directly from its founders’ prior careers delivering proprietary systems inside large investment banks.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2015
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
Corporate office
London, United Kingdom
Additional offices
New York, NY · Dublin, Ireland · Bangalore, India
Principals
Stephen Murphy
Co-Founder
James Harrison
Chief Executive Officer
Tej Sidhu
President & Chief Product Officer
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Genesis Global?
Genesis is not an investment firm — it is an enterprise software company selling a development platform to banks and asset managers. Strategic and capital-allocation decisions rest with CEO James Harrison and the leadership team, which includes President & CPO Tej Sidhu. The firm has raised venture funding rather than deploying investor capital into markets.
How does Genesis Global source its clients?
Genesis sells directly to financial institutions through its commercial team and industry partnerships, with a heavy presence at trade-technology conferences such as TradeTech Europe. Its pipeline leans on founder relationships from prior careers at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns. Named clients include ING, T. Rowe Price, and Neptune Networks, each cited in case studies on the firm’s website.
Does Genesis Global operate as a fund or a technology platform?
Genesis operates exclusively as a technology platform. It is not a family office, asset manager, or trading firm. The company provides low-code tooling and pre-built agentic components that financial institutions use to build trading, risk, and post-trade applications. It generates revenue through software licensing and professional services rather than through managed capital.
What funding has Genesis Global raised, and from whom?
Genesis has raised $246.8 million across three rounds since 2019: a £3 million Series A in 2019, a $1.8 million extension in 2020, a $45 million Series B in 2021, and a $200 million Series C in 2022 (per the firm’s timeline). The firm has not publicly named its investors.
Which asset classes does the Genesis platform support?
The platform targets multi-asset coverage across fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, and structured products. Use cases published on the firm’s site include a primary bond market new-issue workflow at T. Rowe Price and a fixed-income market data hub at Neptune Networks. ING deployed the platform to reduce operational risk in cross-asset workflows.
How is Genesis Global different from horizontal low-code platforms?
Genesis ships with capital-markets domain logic, compliance frameworks, and asset-class templates pre-engineered into its components. The founders spent their prior careers building proprietary trading systems at tier-one investment banks, and that domain specificity — FIX protocol handling, real-time order-book performance, post-trade matching — is embedded in the platform rather than left for clients to assemble.
Where does Genesis Global maintain offices?
Headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Dublin, and Bangalore, and additional hubs across the US and Brazil (per the firm’s website). The geographic spread reflects the firm’s push into both established financial centers and lower-cost developer markets.
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