With a professional background encompassing New York and New Jersey, Rao Chalasani most recently engaged with Bank of America-Merrill Lynch in NY as chief technology officer and risk strategist. Rao Chalasani’s experience with Merrill Lynch extended to the late 1990s, when he helped guide a number of strategic e-initiatives, including the implementation of the Tradeweb platform.

1. Rao Chalasani

2.  With a professional background encompassing New York and
New Jersey, Rao Chalasani most recently engaged with Bank
of America-Merrill Lynch in NY as chief technology officer and
risk strategist. Rao Chalasani’s experience with Merrill Lynch
extended to the late 1990s, when he helped guide a number
of strategic e-initiatives, including the implementation of the
Tradeweb platform.
A pioneer in the financial connectivity sphere, Tradeweb was
an innovator in the now common utilization of competitive
request-for-quotes as a basis for trades. It also set in place a
diversity of protocols, from streaming quotes to inventory-
based trading.

3.  The system was designed as component-based from
the outset, which enabled complete flexibility in
creating products that supported a wide range of
structural market configurations.
Tradeweb has continued to stay at the industry
forefront over the past two decades and in 2013 added
floating rate note trading capacities to its platform. The
following year it added the corporate U.S. bond
marketplace and through Dealerweb enabled active
U.S. Treasury bond trading. It also undertook a
collaborative effort with BlackRock to provide fully
electronic rates trading capacities.