CUATS

Cambridge University
Algorithmic Trading Society

 

 

 

CUATS Gala

14 June 2024

 

 Welcome to the CUATS Gala 2024 - our flagship event of the year!  Join us in this unique networking and career event focused on quant finance.

 

CUATS is excited to be organising its third annual Gala!

 

This formal, black-tie evening event is an unique opportunity for students who are seriously considering a career in quant finance to meet experienced quant researchers, traders, developers, and hiring managers from leading hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, and asset managers.  

 

It will take place in the Cambridge Union Society at 9A Bridge Street, Cambridge  CB2 1UB.

 

The agenda of the Gala will be:

 

5:00 pm - 7:30 pm  Wine and canapes networking reception in the Keynes Library and Fairfax/Rhodes Room

 

7:30 pm - 10:00 pm  Three-course menu dinner with paired company executives and quant researchers/traders in the Debating Chamber

 

10:00 pm onwards  Follow-on drinks and conversation in the Orator Bar

 

You will have the opportunity to indicate your interests and preferences which will help to pair you with the most appropriate company for dinner.

 

Sponsor companies include: Five Rings, SIG, FlowTraders, Squarepoint, Optiver, Da Vinci Trading, Marshall Wace, and others.  Please see below for a summary description of each CUATS Gala 2024 sponsor company.

 

Ticket bookings may be made here:

 

https://cuats_gala2024.eventbrite.co.uk

 

Spaces are limited.  Book your place early to avoid disappointment.

 

Note: registration is not a guarantee of attending the dinner.  You will be contacted after registration to fill in a questionnaire and to optionally submit a CV for consideration.  Should spaces for dinner be filled, a partial refund will be processed for applicants to attend the networking reception only. 

 

We look forward to seeing you at the CUATS Gala 2024 on Friday, 14 June, 2024 - a truly unique networking and career opportunity that we hope you fully harness!

CUATS Gala 2024

Sponsors

 

SummaryFive Rings is a proprietary trading firm with offices in New York and London. We trade in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team of Quantitative Traders , Software Developers , and Quantitative Researchers work together to profit from opportunities in the global markets. We have an open and inclusive culture, and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm. Our firm is a true meritocracy, where growth in responsibility and compensation is earned equitably and rapidly.

Five Rings offers an intensive summer internship program, including immersion in hands-on projects, classroom instruction and mock trading. Trading Interns have exceptional quantitative skills and a quantitative major. They will work closely with the trading team on research and development projects. Interns must have basic software development skills. There are also roles as Trading Operations Engineer in London.  For a full list of currently open positions, please visit https://fiverings.avature.net/careers

 

We know first-hand that earning a doctorate degree requires a relentless pursuit of understanding and extraordinary attention to detail. You dive deep, discover hidden truths, and leave your mark by adding new knowledge. The same is true for our PhD-level Quant Research roles at SIG.

Quantitative Researchers are dedicated to the improvement of our trading. This can take many forms, like improving our market models, furnishing traders with smartly chosen stats to help them make decisions throughout the day or developing new trading strategies altogether. Our Quantitative Research team is a diverse group of 25+ PhDs with various math-heavy backgrounds,  from electrical engineering, through string theory, to number theory. We enjoy applying our skills and rigorous analytical thinking to hard problems in the adversarial environment of the financial markets.

We offer a comprehensive internship and graduate programme tailored specifically for accomplished PhD students and graduates, where you’ll learn about financial market microstructure, pricing models, our trading strategies and get to tap into the decades of accumulated experience of our prop trading professionals.

We feel strongly that investing in education and development helps our employees think autonomously. The dynamic nature of the market requires ever-changing approaches and innovation. Continuous learning and improvement are deep in SIG’s heritage and are key for retaining our edge over the competition.

Please visit our website to learn more about our Quantitative Research team. If you’re excited by the prospect of an impactful career at SIG then we’d be keen to talk to you about our upcoming 2024 opportunities!

 

Flow Traders is a leading global financial technology-enabled liquidity provider in financial products, historically specialized in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). We now have commenced the diversification of our market making activities into other asset classes, such as Foreign Exchange (FX), commodities, cryptocurrencies and fixed income.Flow Traders ensures the provision of liquidity to support the uninterrupted functioning of financial markets. This allows investors to continue to buy or sell ETPs or other financial instruments under all market circumstances. Our work continues to make investing cheaper and more accessible for investors across the globe. We continuously grow our organization, ensuring that our trading desks in Europe, the Americas and Asia can provide liquidity across all major exchanges, globally, 24 hours a day. Founded in 2004, we continue to cultivate the entrepreneurial, innovative and team-oriented culture that has been with us since the beginning.

Flow Traders is looking for Graduate Traders and Graduate Digital Assets Traders to join our growing Trading team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate is competitive, driven and passionate about the financial markets or digital assets markets. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!

 

 

Summary

Over thirty years ago, Optiver started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange. Today, we are a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Our independence allows us to objectively improve the markets and provide efficiencies for end investors.

With over one thousand Optiverians globally, our mission to improve the market unites us. Thriving in a high performance environment, we pioneer our own trading strategies and systems using clean code and sophisticated technology. We achieve this by attracting, developing and empowering top talent, in order to sustain our future.

We are currently looking for Quantitative TradersData Scientists and Quantitative Researchers to join us in our team in Amsterdam.

 

Summary

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

We believe that agile, curious minds and a willingness to learn are as important as qualifications and experience and we want to help shape your career. If you are collaborative, practical and innovative, intellectually curious, passionate about detail and driven to succeed, we will provide you an exciting and rewarding career at Squarepoint.

We offer graduate and intern opportunities:

Junior Quant Researcher

Intern Quant Researcher

Quant Researcher – Data Science

Graduate Quant Developer

 

In 2015, Da Vinci was founded by a group of friends with great passion for trading and a desire to do things differently. Since then, we have been growing successfully and become an established name in the industry. As part of our team, you will build trading algorithms for derivatives, implement new strategies in the market, analyze trades, continuously improve how we do things and come up with new innovative ideas.

By joining our growing company as a young professional, you have the opportunity to play a key role in making Da Vinci one of the leading trading companies in the world. Every member of our team stands out for their sharp mind and strong drive, but we do our best work together complementing each other’s strengths. We support everyone in exploring their interests and developing their skills, placing no limit on personal growth. We are non-hierarchical and encourage our people to speak up, providing everyone with the opportunity to shape the firm's future.

To reach that goal we are looking for competitive students that enjoy continuously challenging themselves and others. If you have a background in mathematics, physics, engineering or similar and you are looking to share your enthusiasm with like-minded people, we encourage you to check out our graduate positions:

Quant Researcher

Graduate Trader

Trading Analyst

Graduate Software Engineer

 

Founded in 1997, Marshall Wace is one of Europe’s leading Hedge Fund Managers with over $60billion of assets under management. It enjoys a strong reputation in the industry for its success, influence and innovation, built by a dedicated team of people working in a dynamic and entrepreneurial culture. Our firm is made up of nearly 500 professionals operating from established offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.

The Quantitative Research and Implementation teams form the heart of our systematic investment business. The research you do will be directly relevant to the business critical functions of the firm, and will form the spearhead of Marshall Wace’s trading activities. Our collaborative team-based structure is rare in the industry - Marshall Wace’s quant research philosophy is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This stands Marshall Wace out from the crowd, and is an ideal environment in which to learn when at the start of your career. Our research directly impacts the trades that we make, and you will be given these projects and responsibilities from day 1. You will be supervised of course, but you will have the opportunity to have a direct impact on the long-term success of the company.

Marshall Wace is dynamic, nimble and entrepreneurial. New ideas are actively encouraged, and the only thing that will limit your success, is you.

We welcome applications from masters and PhD students in a highly quantitative discipline. Our programme is also open to candidates with up to 2 years of relevant post-graduate experience. Experience is not necessary however, but you are likely to be someone with a demonstrable interest in investing that is looking for an opportunity to apply your problem solving skills to real-world financial data.

We are looking for:

self-starters

lateral, independent thinkers

challengers of the status-quo

driven individuals who are excited about their next big challenge

who can also work effectively in a team

with an exceptional academic background

… and above all, outstanding researchers

 

Bank of America Securities' Quantitative Strategies Group (QSG) is a quantitative team integrated within the Sales and Trading businesses of Global Markets that has been formed to create a sustainable commercial advantage for BofAML by reshaping its business around the concepts of innovation, data and models. The team is made up of business embedded desk strategists and quantitative modelers who contribute directly to the revenue generating activities of the firm helping us serve our clients and manage risk.

Quantitative Modelers research, design and implement the mathematical market models that are cornerstone of our execution platform and risk framework, driving the trading strategy of the firm. Our core modelling teams utilize large data sets performing research on market dynamics and client behavior to ensure a theoretically sound and computationally efficient approach is taken across global markets. The results of this research help us to price and manage the risk of large portfolios of correlated financial assets.
The off cycle program provides participants direct experience of working within the dynamic QSG team. As part of the internship you will be working within one of our trading businesses on active projects in the fast paced environment of the trading floor. Your training and development will be a priority and you will be provided with formal training, on the job support and opportunities to participate in educational speaker events. As part of your placement you will be provided a mentor and given the opportunities to network across the diverse team.

 

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The Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society (CUATS) is the first student society in Cambridge to promote the understanding of algorithms and their applications in financial trading. CUATS aims to provide interdisciplinary education of algorithm development and the basics of financial investment strategies. In the forms of workshops, networking sessions and tutorials (code writing of your own investment strategies), we wish to provide our members the necessary skills and the many opportunities to pursue a career in the financial industry as well as in the big data industry.

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The Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society  is the first student society in Cambridge to promote the understanding of algorithms and their applications in financial trading. CUATS aims to provide interdisciplinary education of algorithm development and the basics of financial investment strategies. In the forms of workshops, networking sessions and tutorials (code writing of your own investment strategies), we wish to provide our members the necessary skills and the many opportunities to pursue a career in the financial industry as well as in the big data industry.

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The Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society (CUATS) is the first student society in Cambridge to promote the understanding of algorithms and their applications in financial trading. CUATS aims to provide interdisciplinary education of algorithm development and the basics of financial investment strategies. In the forms of workshops, networking sessions and tutorials (code writing of your own investment strategies), we wish to provide our members the necessary skills and the many opportunities to pursue a career in the financial industry as well as in the big data industry.