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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 […]

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 […]

HFT – the good, the bad and the ugly

High Frequency Trading, known also as HFT, is a technology of market strategies execution. HFT is defined by technically simple and time costless algorithms that run on appropriate software optimized for data structures, level of memory usage and processor use, as well as suitable hardware, co-location and ultra low-latency data feeds.   Although HFT exists […]

Warsaw Stock Exchange certifies our Trading Platform

  Empirica’s Algorithmic Trading Platform has successfully passed the XDP protocol communication certification, issued by the Warsaw Stock Exchange. From now on Empirica is officially listed as the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) for the Warsaw Stock Exchange. WSE uses the Universal Trading Platform delivered by NYSE Technologies. The same system is used by many other […]

Empirica in the press – ‘The age of robots … ‘

On the first of July 2014 large polish economic magazine Puls Biznesu published an article “The age of robots comes to Warsaw Stock Exchange’. Article is quoting, among others, Empirica’s representatives speaking on the topic of the growth of algorithmic trading in Poland. Excerpts below. ‘Popularization of algorithmic trading on conferences like this one is step in […]

Empirica holds workshop on Warsaw Stock Exchange

Algorithmic trading workshop took place on 27th of July 2013 as a part of the second conference held by economic magazine ‘Puls Biznesu’ and Warsaw Stock  Exchange. Michał Różański, representing Empirica, held workshop on the practical aspects of selecting tools for algorithmic trading by financial institutions. He stressed and covered in detail, especially one aspect of […]