Maven Securities had a weird year, but people got paid well. Better, even
Maven Securities, the trading firm and market maker known for hiring niche traders, also pays them pretty well – if its latest accounts, published this week and covering the period ending June 2025, are anything to go by.
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Headline figures seemed good on the face of it. Revenue at Maven Securities Holding Limited, the main London-based subsidiary, was up from £84m in 2024 to £101m in 2025, an increase of 20%. But profit was down by 36%, from £12m to £7.7m. That was mostly on account of a huge increase in administrative expenses, the biggest part of which was salaries.
Maven’s total wage bill went up, from £50m to £66m. But headcount declined from 260 heads to 236, a decline of around 10%. Total pay per head, therefore, went from £194k ($257k) to £281k ($372k), a chunky increase of 45%. Good times, then – if you were there to enjoy them.
Pay for Maven’s portfolio managers is less clear. Aside from the firm’s main entity, it has a wide range of other subsidiaries registered with Companies House. Not all of them have released accounts for the period ending 30 June 2025 yet. We’ll get back to you later.
Back in January, Maven released its US accounts via the entity known as Maven Securities US Limited, also through companies house, and also for the period ending June 2025. This particular iteration of Maven is responsible for operations in New York and Chicago, where the firm earns about half its revenue.
Maven’s US employees, of which there were 72 at the end of the June 2025 period, earned substantially more than their UK colleagues – £363k ($481k) per head, an increase of 6.4% on the £341k ($452k) earned the period before.
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