About Castine LLC

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 (formerly known as Cogent), works with over 2,000 firms to provide the highest-level of service with its 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 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 New Jersey, London, and Buenos Aires.

We can be reached at sales@CastineLLC.com or at +1 347-4-CASTINE.

MANAGEMENT

President

Robin Hodgkins

Robin has been involved in the “C3” space – commission management, compliance, and compensation and client profitability – for over two decades. As the primary product strategist for Castine, he has overseen the development of solutions that have become industry leaders in every market sector they support.

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Executive Vice President of Sales

Tom Smith

Tom is a highly regarded Wall Street sales and marketing professional. Prior to joining Castine, he was Director of Sales at Cogent Consulting, helping to develop it into the largest provider of commission management systems worldwide.

News And podcast

Read Integrity Research's Post on Evaluation Transparency

(7/1/25) Robin Hodgkins’ article on where the feedback loop can be improved

Latest Podcast: Castine Conversations

Bob Nowicki on the Lost Art of Commission Management

Castine Conversation with John McGough

John McGough – The Latest UK News Regarding the Return of Commission Management

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.

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.

Reporting Kiosk

Report across all your data with curated and user-managed reports

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