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About Castine

Focusing on Your Success Through Industry-Leading FinTech Solutions

One Company, Many Solutions, One Goal

Castine has a 30+ year history of delivering industry-leading solutions to broker dealers, research providers, asset managers, and hedge funds around the globe, all focused on giving our clients the answers they need to grow and prosper.

Castine works with over 2,000 firms to provide the highest-level of service with cloud-based and in-house hosted systems for commission management, research budgeting and payment, compensation, and compliance. Our solutions can be used to solve individual issues, such as tracking CSA balances with clients or brokers, or to solve multiple issues with an integrated portal.

Our clients represent a “Who’s Who” of the largest asset managers and brokers, as well as those firms that are rapidly growing to meet their client’s demands and who want to start off with solutions that can scale along with them.

Castine operates globally, with teams in the USA, the UK, Portugal, France, and Argentina.

We can  be reached at [email protected] or at +1 347-4-CASTINE.

CASTINE OVERVIEW

MANAGEMENT

  • President

    Robin Hodgkins

    Robin is the founder and President of Castine Consulting LLC, where he's been revolutionizing the commission management space for three decades. He directs a team that drives Castine's industry-leading products that power over 2,000 firms worldwide, including more than 500 top-tier asset managers and brokers. Robin recently spearheaded the acquisition of French RMS powerhouse ResearchPool, expanding Castine's global footprint and capabilities. Robin is a frequent panelist at institutional conferences in New York and London and combines deep industry and technical knowledge while maintaining an equally deep commitment to community service.

  • Executive Vice President of Sales

    Tom Smith

    Tom is a seasoned Wall Street sales and marketing leader with over 30 years of experience driving growth in financial services. As co-founder of Castine, he spearheads global sales, leveraging his strategic vision to expand market reach. Previously, as Director of Sales at Cogent Consulting, Tom played a pivotal role in transforming the firm into the world’s leading provider of commission management systems

  • Director, Account Management

    Bob Curtis

    Bob has had a long and successful career partnering with clients to define, deploy and support software for the brokerage industry. Prior to joining Castine, Bob spent the previous decade with S&P Global leading the Client Success organization for their Institutional Trading
    products. As Account Management Director at Castine, Bob is again leading a team of Client Success professionals supporting and partnering with clients to drive great outcomes.

  • Product Director

    Al Lalani

    Al has been working in the financial software industry for over 20 years, across various verticals from Software Development to Client Services/Implementations to Product Management. In his role, Al collaborates closely with Senior Management, Development and Client Services to deliver high-end software solutions through Implementations and Release / Upgrade processes.

  • Director of Software Engineering

    Matias Holc

    As Director of Software Engineering, Matias helps shape Castine’s product strategy and oversee the delivery of our core platforms. With a background in software architecture, data integration, and team leadership, he is passionate about building scalable solutions — and climbing a few rocks along the way.

  • Director, RMS Products

    Pedro Fernandes

    Pedro is an industry expert, product builder, and entrepreneur. Prior to joining Castine, he was the founder and CEO of ResearchPool, a research management platform recently acquired by Castine. Europe-based and Portuguese-born, Pedro speaks three languages fluently, which helps him navigate the European continent’s diverse business landscape.

  • Director, Infrastructure and Security

    Fernando Neto

    Fernando leads the company’s global cloud strategy and platform operations. He’s been involved in the development of Castine’s C3 platform since its inception, helping shape its architecture, scale, and secure integration with enterprise environments. When he’s not optimizing infrastructure, he’s tuning the system like it’s a performance engine. Because it is.

News And podcastS

Latest Podcast:
CSAs as a Growth Opportunity

Sept 3, 2025 – Robin Hodgkins and Hester White discuss how CSAs can be a growth opportunity for brokers

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Castine Conversation
with Mike Mayhew

July 30, 2025 – Conversation with Mike Mayhew, Founder and Chairman of Integrity Research on the history of CSAs

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CSA Webinar
Moving Forward with Payment Optionality in the UK

July 15, 2025 – Robin Hodgkins and Steve Stone join Alex Cardell on Panmure Liberum’s webinar

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Castine Unveils Transformative RMS Upgrade

July 24, 2025 – Redefines Research Management for Asset Managers

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Firm-Wide Trade Reporting

(6/19/25) Castine’s Aggregated Trade Reporting System allows firms to report on all trading activity across every OMS, asset type, venue.

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Castine Acquires ResearchPool

(12/3/24)  Castine announces the acquisition of Paris-based ResearchPool, an industry-leading provider of research management tools for asset managers worldwide.

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