Entries by empirica

A brief guide to Litecoin

What is Litecoin and how does this differ from Bitcoin? Since Bitcoin was established in 2009, many other blockchain assets have been released with modified versions of Bitcoin’s code, with varying levels of success. Litecoin is one such altered variant and was launched in 2011 with the essential aim of earning transactions faster. This is […]

The biggest market maker in Poland uses Empirica Platform

It’s been two years since Empirica has successfully deployed the full version of Algorithmic Trading Platform for Dom Maklerski Banku Ochrony Środowiska (DM BOS Brokerage House). Since then DM BOS has become the most active market maker on Polish capital market, running its market making and algorithmic trading operations through Empirica’s platform. With a great pleasure […]

A brief guide to cryptocurrency exchanges

With a rapidly growing interest among technologist as well as trader towards cryptocurrencies, we have been writing a series of posts about them. In this post we will be covering cryptocurrency exchanges and point out their characteristics, and hopefully at the end of this post you may get an idea on which crypotocurrency exchange to […]

Introduction to Liquidity Metrics

This paper offers a summary of indicators which may be used to demonstrate and examine liquidity developments in financial markets. These measures are employed in foreign markets, currency, and capital markets to exemplify their usefulness. Lots of measures have to be considered since there isn’t any single theoretically appropriate and approved measure to ascertain a […]

Who is moving FinTech forward in continental Europe? Thoughts after FinTech Forum on Tour.

By Michal Rozanski, CEO at Empirica. In the very centre of Canary Wharf, London’s financial district, in a brand new EY building, a very interesting FinTech conference took place – FinTech Forum on Tour. The invitation-only conference targeted the most interesting startups from the investment area (InvestTech) from mainland Europe. The event had representative stakeholders […]

Empirica has been nominated for Best Fintech Startup at CESA 2015

Empirica has been nominated for the Best Fintech Startup in Poland at the CESA festival. CESA (Central European Startup Award) is the biggest no-pitch, no-conference start-up festival in the Central-Eastern European region. The festival brings together nearly 4.000 start-ups from 10 countries and it will be held in Vienna this year. We are in good company, as other companies […]

Empirica joins advisory board of London’s FinTech Connect

Michal Rozanski, CEO of Empirica, was invited to join advisory board of FinTech Connect. The main purpose of the board would be to share knowledge and experiences with new fintech ventures looking for support. FinTech Connect is a new initiative for the global community of financial technology stakeholders – investors, financial institutions, fintech startups and […]

Our platform implemented by large brokerage house!

Empirica has successfully finished the implementation of its Algorithmic Trading Platform in one of the largest brokerage houses in Poland. Brokerage house will use our software to: aid its internal trading operations, like market making of derivatives on Warsaw Stock Exchange offer functionalities of our platform to its institutional clients, which will be able to […]

Next release of our algorithmic platform. Version 1.3.4 – has code name “The Firebolt”.

Next implementations of our Algorithmic Trading Platform by customers don’t stop us from developing the platform itself. Working agile requires us to keep the pace in short and frequent iterations, which in case of product means frequent releases, keeping the whole product line stable. A few iterations that we planned in our 1.3.4 release, code named […]