Tower Research Capital LLC

Tower Research Capital LLC is a quantitative trading firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, with offices in key market centers worldwide. It operates a high-performance technology platform supporting independent trading teams engaged in systematic and electronic trading. The firm has been in operation for more than 25 years and describes itself as home to quantitative traders and systematic portfolio managers.

The firm's engineering work spans the infrastructure stack that electronic trading depends on: compute infrastructure, data infrastructure, market access systems, risk management systems, and compliance systems, alongside low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning. Tower Research Capital makes ongoing investments in infrastructure and business support, and its engineers work on problems at the cutting edge of trading technology.

Organisationally, the firm runs a team-based structure in which independent trading teams operate with the economies of scale of a large global organisation. It reports a results-oriented culture that values innovators, entrepreneurs, and self-starters, and describes a work environment in which highly motivated colleagues challenge one another. The industry verticals it operates in include quantitative trading, proprietary trading, financial markets, electronic trading, and systematic portfolio management.