Tower Research Capital LLC

Tower Research Capital LLC is a quantitative trading firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, with a presence in key market centers worldwide. It operates a high-performance technology platform that enables independent quantitative trading and systematic portfolio management teams to work within a global organization. The firm describes itself as having been at the forefront of electronic trading innovation for more than 25 years.

Technical work spans quantitative and electronic trading, low-latency programming, FPGA technology and hardware acceleration, machine learning, high-performance computing, and market access infrastructure. Engineering teams work on problems at the cutting edge of trading technology, supported by ongoing investment in market access, data, research, compute infrastructure, risk management, compliance, and business support.

The firm's structure combines autonomous trading teams with the economies of scale of a large global organization. It states that it is home to quantitative traders and systematic portfolio managers, and that it values innovators, entrepreneurs, and self-starters in a results-oriented culture.