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The company was founded by Morgan Tillbrook as a foreign exchange management business known as Alpha FX in 2009. It was the subject of an initial public offering on the Alternative Investment Market in 2017, [3] and acquired the multi-bank trading platform, Cobase, in September 2023.
The firm launched its Pure Alpha fund and began to market portable alpha investment strategies in 1991. [8] The Pure Alpha fund did well during the market's downturn of 2000 to 2003 and, as hedge funds became more popular, the company expanded its assets through its connections with various underfunded pension funds, some of which were already ...
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors (also known as Schonfeld and SSA) is an American hedge fund based in New York City.Formed in 2015, Schonfeld continues the business that Steve Schonfeld established in 1988 – a family office pioneering in short-term, systematic and algorithmic trading.
Trader Nick Leeson took down Barings Bank with unauthorized proprietary positions. UBS trader Kweku Adoboli lost $2.3 billion of the bank's money and was convicted for his actions. [6] [7] Armin S, a German private trader, sued BNP Paribas for 152m EUR because they sold to him structured products for 108 EUR each which were worth 54 00 EUR. [8]
An alpha generation platform is a technology used in algorithmic trading to develop quantitative financial models, or trading strategies, that generate consistent alpha, or absolute returns. The process of alpha generation refers to generating excess returns. [ 1 ]
Global Trading Systems, which uses the trade name GTS, is an American proprietary trading and market making firm headquartered in New York. The firm accounts for 3 to 5 percent of the daily turnover of US equities and has handled over 250 IPO listings since 2013. GTS has additional offices in Chicago, Florida, London, Paris, Warsaw, and Israel.
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Radix Trading was co-founded by Benjamin Blander and Michael Rauchman. Blander was previously head of the high-frequency trading group of Citadel LLC while Rauchman was the chief technology officer of GETCO. [1] [2] [3] In August 2017, Radix Trading opened an office in Amsterdam to expand its operations into Europe.