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Coding for High Frequency Trading
Financial Services run arguably the most complex applications, with major institutions each running thousands of different applications. The most challenging and performance critical are the High Frequency Trading systems used in the Equities markets. This session will describe the application environments, design patterns and programming languages commonly deployed across Financial Services including Investment Banks and Hedge Funds.
Speaker
Richard Croucher
VP of High Frequency Engineering @Barclays
Richard is a platform architect who specializes in high performance systems, including those used by financial institutions for high frequency trading and huge compute clusters with thousands of nodes used in the Cloud. He is a multi-disciplinarian with experience across hardware,...
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Windsor, 5th flr.
Track
Workhorse Languages, Not Called Java
Topics
LatencyHigh PerformanceShare
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