Recruitment Talk by Squarepoint Capital

About the Speaker

Jean-Damien Artarit is currently CEO of Squarepoint Capital for Asia region. After gradudating in 2006 from Ecole Polytechnique in France and Columbia University from which he holds a Master of Financial Engineering, he joined Lehman Brothers in systematic trading, in the group that was to evolve into Squarepoint Capital today. The group transferred to Barclays in 2008. Mr Artarit then moved to Tokyo in 2010, then Singapore in 2011, where he is still based today.

About Squarepoint Capital

Squarepoint Capital is an investment manager firm that helps its clients achieve consistent high quality, uncorrelated returns using scientific, data driven research across global financial markets and asset classes resulting in a portfolio of rigorously tested systematic and quantitative trading strategies.

The firm builds automated trading strategies aimed at capturing market inefficiencies across various markets and asset classes. These trading opportunities might be very short-lived (a few milliseconds) or longer term; they might be pure arbitrage or statistical in nature. For this, Squarepoint relies on state-of-the-art infrastructure to handle its large trading volumes.

Squarepoint operate at the intersection of trading, quantitative modeling, and technology, and roles are therefore highly interdisciplinary.