Wall Street's Most Powerful Quants

[Andy Nguyen]

Institutional Investor recently published the Tech 50 list of the players in financial tech that could potentially be the most "disruptive" to the industry at large.

On that list are many well-known "quants", practitioners. I personally know or met two of them, Dr. Peter Carr at #32 and Shawn Edwards, CTO of Bloomberg at #15.

BusinessInsider profiles 21 of them which they called "nerds" and Wall Street's Most Powerful Quants
The Most Powerful Nerds On Wall Street

 

[dstefan]

Reto Francioni, the Deutsche Borse/NYSE CEO, will speak at Baruch College on October 4 at the "Economic Function of a Stock Exchange" conference organized by Bob Schwartz
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/conference/financialmarkets/