Investment bank and brokerage with emerging crypto M&A and wealth management focus
Wedbush is a 70-year-old investment bank and securities brokerage with nearly 900 employees across 100 offices, operating a multi-line business spanning retail brokerage, wealth management, capital markets, and investment banking. The company is actively building a crypto M&A and investment banking franchise while managing complex regulatory obligations (AML, 15c3-3 compliance). Tech stack leans SQL, Tableau, AWS, and Salesforce, with recent Claude adoption—a pattern suggesting exploration of AI-assisted workflows in compliance and deal support.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Human Resources, Managing Director, Investment Banking Director
Wedbush Securities is the primary operating subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services, a privately held firm founded in 1955 and headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm serves both private and institutional clients across retail brokerage, wealth management, equity and fixed-income capital markets, investment banking, clearing and execution, equity research, and prime brokerage. Current hiring focus is heavily concentrated in finance (28 roles), research (8), and sales (7), with smaller compliance and engineering teams scaling infrastructure and regulatory applications. Active initiatives include originating crypto M&A and investment banking transactions, compliance application modernization, and HRIS consolidation across legal entities.
SQL, Tableau, Power BI, AWS (including RDS and Aurora), Azure SQL, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Python, and recently Claude. Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) are also in use.
The company is actively originating and closing crypto M&A transactions and building a crypto investment banking franchise as a core strategic initiative.
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