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Podcast: Wharton FinTech Podcast
Episode: Mark Higgins, Co-Founder & Chief Analytics Officer of Beacon - A next generation platform for quants
Description: Andrew Janssens hosts Mark Higgins, Co-Founder and Chief Analytics Officer of Beacon, an end-to-end development platform for financial markets that allows traders and quants to build and share code and applications across the front and back office.
In this episode you will hear about:
- How Mark went from his PhD in physics to the world of finance
- How Goldman's Sec DB contributed to their trading edge
- Whether finance and FinTech are still appealing for today's PhDs
- Some of the latest applications of AI and machine learning in modern trading
About Mark Higgins
Mark Higgins (PhD) is...