Steven Hatzakis

Steven is CEO if his New York-based consultancy, Steven Hatzakis Inc., which provides financial technology (fintech) advisory solutions including content strategies and research covering established financial markets, complex derivatives, and emerging alternative assets.
Steven Hatzakis leads the research at ForexBrokers.com (A Reink Media Group company) since 2016, bringing over 20 years’ experience from the online brokerage industry. Passionate about helping consumers, Steven has spoken and moderated numerous forex and finance industry panels across the globe. Prior to joining ForexBrokers.com, Steven was an Editor at Finance Magnates. Steven has served as a registered commodity futures representative for domestic and internationally-regulated brokerages and holds a Series III license in the US as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). In addition to forex, Steven is an avid cryptocurrency researcher, advisor, investor, and trader, with nearly 500 crypto trades in 2018 alone. He is a contributor to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Cryptography API on Github, and to several other open-source repositories, and is the inventor of palindromic mnemonics (checksum-compliant reversible recovery phrases). Steven first wrote about Bitcoin market inefficiencies in 2013 and continues to contribute to open-source technology, consumer education, and self-regulatory initiatives.