Senior-level consulting for global financial institutions navigating the complexity of clearing, settlement, post-trade infrastructure, and enterprise platform modernization.
Valyrian Consulting LLC is a boutique advisory firm founded by Levan Petrosyan, a capital markets veteran with over two decades of experience building and scaling the platforms that underpin global financial markets.
From leading post-trade modernization at DTCC to architecting enterprise connectivity platforms at fintech firms like Access Fintech and Traiana, Levan has operated at the intersection of technology, product strategy, and market infrastructure — not as a consultant looking in, but as an executive driving change from within.
Valyrian brings that practitioner's perspective directly to your challenges: a rare combination of institutional credibility, technical depth, and product leadership that moves beyond recommendations to real, executable outcomes.
Based in the New York Metropolitan Area. Serving clients globally.
Engagements are tailored, senior-level, and outcome-driven. We work on retainer, project, and advisory board arrangements.
Advisory on clearing, settlement, and institutional trade processing platforms. From workflow redesign to infrastructure modernization, with a practitioner's understanding of how DTCC, custodians, and prime brokers actually operate.
Design and delivery of scalable B2B integration platforms. Expert guidance on FIX protocol connectivity, API architecture, and onboarding infrastructure that enables financial institutions to connect to market infrastructure with minimal friction.
Fractional or advisory CPO/VP Product support for fintech firms building capital markets infrastructure. Roadmap development, team structuring, and stakeholder alignment from a leader who has scaled products in both startup and large-FMI environments.
Deep experience in regulatory reporting platforms including Dodd-Frank and EMIR compliance. Advisory on GTR design, CFTC/ESMA alignment, and building systems that satisfy evolving global regulatory requirements.
Guidance on transforming legacy systems into modern, shared-services architectures. Including identity and access management, client onboarding platforms, and UI/UX infrastructure serving institutional users at scale.
Operational and technical design for scalable client onboarding. Drawing on direct experience building low-touch, no-code integration frameworks that dramatically reduce implementation complexity for broker-dealers and asset managers.
Led product strategy and platform services across DTCC's Institutional Trade Processing ecosystem, rising to Executive Director overseeing shared enterprise services for connectivity, onboarding, and operational workflows used by global financial institutions. Established the ITP UI organization and drove adoption of enterprise shared services across core infrastructure including DTC. Earlier, contributed to the design and implementation of the Global Trade Repository (GTR) under Dodd-Frank, working directly with CFTC regulatory guidance and facilitating industry working groups with market participants.
Built and scaled the firm's product and delivery organizations from early-stage startup through growth. As Head of Product, led enterprise client connectivity platform strategy enabling integration across trading, operations, and data services for institutional participants. As Head of Delivery, established professional services operations, managed global client implementations, and developed tools to operationalize scalable onboarding processes.
Served across multiple roles spanning program management, product, and integration engineering. Led the migration of State Street's GTSS platform onto the Traiana Harmony network, managed the Cash Equity and Fixed Income post-trade platform with a globally distributed team across broker-dealers and financial institutions, and built the integration services team responsible for low-touch, no-code B2B onboarding tools that significantly reduced client implementation complexity.
Roles in application and global support at Omgeo (CTM, Alert, Oasis) and Thomson Reuters (Thomson One, ILX), building foundational knowledge of institutional financial data and post-trade systems.
Every engagement is led by someone who has held operational accountability for the outcomes being sought. No junior staff, no templated frameworks — just direct senior expertise applied to your specific challenge.
We understand how clearing, settlement, and post-trade workflows actually function — not at a conceptual level, but with the granular technical and operational fluency built from years inside DTCC, Traiana, and the firms that interface with them.
Recommendations without delivery plans are incomplete. We bridge strategy and execution — providing frameworks that engineering teams can act on, and guidance that survives contact with organizational reality.
Two decades in capital markets infrastructure means a network built on genuine professional respect. We can open conversations, facilitate introductions, and navigate the institutional dynamics that determine whether initiatives succeed.
Valyrian Consulting works with organizations operating in or building for regulated capital markets — from the largest FMIs to emerging fintech challengers.
CCPs, CSDs, trade repositories, and settlement systems navigating modernization and regulatory change.
Global and regional firms optimizing post-trade operations, connectivity, and platform integration.
Buy-side institutions seeking operational efficiency across trading, settlement, and counterparty connectivity.
Technology firms building products for institutional capital markets requiring product and go-to-market expertise.
Investment firms requiring technical due diligence on fintech and market infrastructure acquisitions.
Whether you have a specific project in mind or are exploring how advisory support might benefit your organization, reach out directly. Responses within 24 hours.
Engagements structured as retainer, project-based, or advisory board participation. Available for speaking, conference panels, and industry working groups.