About BRV Overview

“If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard beaten road to his house though it be in the woods.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson



Blaylock Robert Van, LLC, (”BRV”), is a minority-owned investment banking and financial services company. BRV provides a global electronic equity and fixed income trading platform with direct market access to over 40 worldwide exchanges, and a proprietary web-based research platform designed to specifically address the needs of fundamental portfolio managers and analysts.

BRV is the combination of Blaylock & Company, founded in 1993 by Ron Blaylock, and Robert Van Securities, founded by Eric Van Standifer in 1991 . Blaylock, an east coast based minority-owned investment banking boutique, joined with Robert Van Securities, a minority-owned west coast broker-dealer. The combined firm offers a suite of high-value services including capital markets strategies for a blue chip client roster consisting of America’s largest corporations, financial institutions, municipalities and high net worth clients.

Members of FINRA, MSRB & SIPC, BRV is one of the most recognizable and innovative financial services firms in the United States.
Blaylock Robert Van maintains its headquarters in New York City and offices in Oakland, CA., Chicago IL. and Cleveland, OH.


The Scope of Blaylock Robert Van

Our combined services platform now includes:

  • Capital Markets: Banking and new issue distribution capabilities excelling in lead-managed debt transactions
  • Fixed Income Trading: Trading team sold more than $44 billion of U.S. Treasury and Agency securities in 2008
  • Share Buyback: Structured buyback funding solutions and cash execution track record which rivals our bulge-bracket competitors
  • Equity Research: Innovative quantitative discipline (ELROI-The Electronic Analyst®) delivered electronically to the desktop
  • Electronic Equity Trading: Domestic and International execution and settlement
  • Municipal Bond origination, underwriting, trading and new-issue distribution
  • Asset Management: An affiliate, SPI Strategies, achieving stellar returns in both large and small cap portfolios using
    quantitative ELROI discipline

      “At Blaylock Robert Van, our mission hinges upon our single-minded focus on understanding and delivering financial services of the highest quality.
      We strive to strengthen our approach to meet each client’s needs by providing custom-tailored financial services adding value, focus and consistency resulting in measurable results.”
      – Eric V. Standifer, President

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