Katia Babbar

Katia Babbar is CEO and Co-Founder of Immersive Finance, an institutional execution, risk management, and quantitative trading platform serving hedge funds, asset managers, market makers, and banks across digital assets and traditional markets. She has more than 25 years of experience building quantitative analytics, derivatives technology, and electronic trading platforms. Before founding Immersive Finance, Katia held senior leadership roles at Lloyds Banking Group, UBS, and Citigroup, where she led teams spanning quantitative research, derivatives analytics, electronic trading, and FX market making. Throughout her career, she has focused on translating complex quantitative models into scalable, production-grade trading and risk systems. She has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford and has advised projects at the intersection of DeFi and institutional finance. Katia holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Imperial College London and a BSc in Mathematics from