Tower Research Capital

About Tower Research Capital

Tower Research Capital LLC is an American quantitative trading and technology firm headquartered in New York City. The firm runs proprietary, low-latency electronic trading strategies across futures, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and other asset classes on exchanges around the world, and operates as one of the more established systematic-trading firms in the global markets ecosystem. Tower Research Capital was founded in 1998 by Mark Gorton. Over the subsequent decades the firm has built and operated one of the fastest and most sophisticated electronic-trading platforms in the industry, investing heavily in low-latency network infrastructure, custom exchange connectivity, FPGA-accelerated systems, and high-throughput data analytics. Affiliated trading entities include Latour Trading, Lime Brokerage (since divested), and other regional units. The firm runs offices and trading desks across New York, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Gurugram, Singapore, and other financial centers, and is regulated as a proprietary trading firm in multiple jurisdictions. In India, Tower Research Capital operates a substantial technology and research center in Gurugram that contributes to the firm's global trading platform across software engineering, quantitative research, FPGA and hardware engineering, and trading operations. Indian fresher hiring at Tower Research Capital typically feeds into core-developer, quantitative-trader, quantitative-researcher, software-engineering, FPGA-engineering, and trading-operations roles, sourced primarily through campus placement at the IITs, BITS Pilani, ISI, and CMI. Compensation packages for graduate roles are widely cited as among the highest in the Indian campus-hiring market.

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