Clear Street
Clear Street is a technology-led capital-markets platform providing clearing, custody, financing, securities lending, execution, and reporting to hedge funds, active traders, market makers, broker-dealers, and other sophisticated investors.
Website or institutional source
- Prime brokerage and capital-services platform
- Prime Brokerage & Capital Services
- Tier II
Overview
Clear Street is a technology-led capital-markets platform providing clearing, custody, financing, securities lending, execution, and reporting to hedge funds, active traders, market makers, broker-dealers, and other sophisticated investors.
The firm’s principal differentiator is its cloud-native infrastructure. It seeks to provide real-time data, integrated multi-asset workflows, transparent reporting, and a more modern operating architecture than systems assembled through decades of legacy development. Within The Economy Wiki, the institution is connected to the Prime Brokerage & Capital Services category.
Firm facts
| Institution | Clear Street |
| Type | Prime brokerage and capital-services platform |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Primary ranking focus | Prime Brokerage & Capital Services |
| Highest 2026 tier | Tier II |
Activities and investment capabilities
Clear Street is also expanding geographically and by product, including through acquisition-led access to Asia-Pacific markets. Its growth illustrates the demand for institutional prime services that combine flexible client coverage with modern technology.
Core capability
financing, securities lending, clearing, custody and institutional hedge-fund support
Institutional relevance
Capabilities are assessed for professional investors, investment organizations, counterparties or hedge-fund operating teams.
Risk and execution
The profile considers research quality, implementation, governance, resilience and category-specific operating requirements.
Strategy and market coverage
Strategy and workflow coverage
financing, securities lending, clearing, custody and institutional hedge-fund support
Institutional context
Coverage reflects the institution’s role in hedge-fund investment, data, trading, financing, risk or operational workflows.
Market position
Clear Street fits Tier II because it has become the most visible technology-centered challenger to conventional prime brokerage. Its institutional history is shorter than that of the banks, but its client growth, product development, and strategic ambition justify established-tier placement.
Clear Street is assessed within the Prime Brokerage & Capital Services framework. For wider market context, see Private Credit Lending Models as Banks Retreat.
Competitive context
Clear Street is recognized Tier II in Top 30 Prime Brokerage & Capital Services 2026. The rankings compare institutions by category relevance, investment or operating capability, research depth, risk and execution quality, institutional credibility and current activity. Comparable links support navigation and do not imply identical mandates, products or counterparties.
Leadership and governance
Leadership, investment-committee composition, product ownership and operating resources may change over time. Current information should be confirmed through the institution’s website or public institutional source.
| Leadership area | Current source |
|---|---|
| Leadership and governance | Current institutional information |
Corporate and public information
This profile refers to Clear Street as the public-facing institution or platform. Individual funds, advisers, broker-dealers, banks, administrators, data businesses and regulated affiliates may use separate legal names across jurisdictions.
Corporate and disclosure information
| Organization | Clear Street |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
| Public source | www.clearstreet.com |
| Profile basis | Public institutional information and Capital Ranking editorial research |
Ranking recognition
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