Matthew Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Provable Markets, a New York-based SEC-registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) modernizing the multi-trillion-dollar securities lending market through its cloud-native Aurora platform.

Matthew earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and International Business from Villanova University and built over 15 years of trading experience at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jefferies, and Nomura, where he rose to Managing Director.

After a decade and a half watching information leakage erode efficiency in securities lending, Matthew co-founded Provable Markets to bring cryptographic technology and modern infrastructure to a market historically negotiated over instant message.

Prior to launching Provable Markets, Matthew served as Chief Commercial Officer at Provable Labs, the R&D arm that developed the underlying cryptographic matching technology powering the Aurora platform.

Provable Markets raised an $8M Series A led by Dialectic Capital Management in May 2024, executed the first-ever DTCC SFT-cleared securities lending trade in October 2022, and has grown to 18 employees while integrating S&P Global Market Intelligence data directly into its OMS.