About Tower Research Capital
Tower Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm founded in 1998 by Mark Gorton. It builds technology and deploys automated trading strategies across a broad range of asset classes in global markets, around the clock, and describes itself simply as “Leaders in Quantitative Trading. And Beyond.”
Over more than 25 years the firm has grown to over 1,100 people worldwide, operating from New York alongside offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Tower is organised around four business lines: Quantitative Trading, Engineering, Liquidity Provision and Ventures.
Tower attracts quantitative talent by offering “a high-performance trading and research platform, a team-based organizational structure, and a stimulating, results-oriented work environment”. Its stated values are excellence, respect, innovation, integrity and teamwork, and it positions itself as a place where researchers and engineers get access to institutional-scale platform capabilities from day one.