Lunchlezing Optiver

On Tuesday March 19th, the next GEWIS lunch lecture is coming! This time, Optiver is visiting us to give the lecture.

"Optiver is an international and innovative proprietary trading firm. We deal with highly-automated electronic market making activities in wide variety of financial products such as derivatives, stocks and fixed income. With offices in Amsterdam, Chicago and Sydney, employing around 600 talented individuals from over 30 nationalities, we trade in more than 20 countries, across 5 continents, 24 hours a day. Although market making is our core activity, we rely heavily on our IT expertise. We recognise that only the very latest hardware and software will ensure fast and reliable connections with option exchanges worldwide. Our success is the result of our continuous attention to innovation, and we aim to always stay ahead of the technology curve.

During the guestlecture of GEWIS we will elaborate further on how we apply IT in the fast-paced environment of Trading. How do we develop our Trading software in-house and how can we make sure we have fast, reliable and accurate connections to all exchanges worldwide? What is the role of latency within our company? These and many other related topics will be addressed during this lecture."

Sounds interesting? Subscribe before Tuesday 9:00h if you want free lunch!