Morphisec’s customer is a leading US-based hedge fund with a portfolio of approximately $5B in assets under management. As a quantitative fund (“quant shop”), workstations outnumber employees 10:1. The firm’s team relies on complex systems to drive statistical techniques, mathematical modeling, and automated algorithms. Global operations run 24/7, leveraging worldwide data lines and source providers across domestic servers and three US-based data centers. Financial services platforms (multiple versions of Bloomberg Terminals) support the firm’s critical stock and option trades and provides access to an email client, real-time market data, newsfeeds, and messaging and collaboration services.
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