SquarePoint Capital

Topic: Building an analytics service for live trading

In this talk we will talk about the technical and functional challenges of building a centralised analytics service across various asset classes for live trading and back testing

Speakers:

Lionel Fafchamps, Software Developer
Lionel is a software developer working on trading frameworks at Squarepoint, focusing particularly on backtesting frameworks and service integration. Prior to this he worked in computer vision and research.  In a previous life he was a physicist at Imperial, where he completed his PhD in 2015.

Mayghal Vijapura, Quantitative Developer 
Mayghal is a quantitative developer at Squarepoint working on real time risk systems for volatility strategies. Previously Mayghal has worked at a number of financial firms including JP Morgan and completed his BSc and MSc at Imperial in Maths. When he's not at work he can be found kicking away in the Tae Kwon Do dojo