Maren Holst

Maren leads FintechPays' programs desk, covering prop firms, brokers, and trader-infrastructure affiliate economics. Eight years on the trader-platforms beat — first as a buy-side derivatives analyst, then as the senior reviewer who built two prior comparison sites' scoring rubrics from scratch. She owns EPC v1 and signs every program review before it ships.

Credentials

• CFA
• Series 3 (US futures)

Editorial accountability

FintechPays publishes program reviews under two desk bylines — a programs desk that authors recommendations and an independent standards desk that fact-checks them — so authorship and verification stay separate. Maren leads the programs desk and signs every program review before it ships.

Final accountability for the methodology and every published ranking sits with the Editor-in-Chief, Stephan Kulik. The standards both desks work to are documented in the editorial standards.