Why Canada’s Trading Market is Ready for Disruption with Michael Arbus of moomoo Canada
About this episode
Matt Cohen interviews Michael Arbus about the disruption of Canada's trading market and the future of fintech.
In this episode of Tank Talks, Matt Cohen sits down with Michael Arbus, CEO of moomoo Canada, for a wide-ranging conversation on Wall Street trading floors, Canadian fintech, crypto regulation, AI-powered investing, and what it really takes to build and scale financial technology companies. Michael’s career has taken him from the chaos of Bay Street and Wall Street desks at firms like RBC Capital Markets, TD, UBS, and Merrill Lynch to operating industrial businesses, helping scale Bitbuy into a regulated Canadian crypto marketplace, and now leading moomoo Canada as it pushes into self-directed retail trading, AI tools, options education, and investor communities. Michael shares the lessons he learned from covering major hedge funds, why one trade during the financial crisis made him rethink his role as an advisor, how spreadsheet-driven decision-making helped him turn around operating businesses, and why retail investors in Canada are ready for better tools than the legacy banking platforms have historically offered. They also dive into moomoo’s AI-native product strategy, agentic investing, algorithmic trading in natural language, Canada’s loyalty to big banks, the rise of…
Topics covered
- Canadian fintech
- trading market disruption
- AI-powered investing
- retail trading
- crypto regulation
- financial technology
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