Goldman To Reveal Code Secrets
April 03 2019 - 8:23AM
Dow Jones News
By WSJ City
Goldman Sachs plans to release some of the code that its own
traders and engineers use to price securities and analyse and
manage risk. A few lines of code can spit out an analysis that once
would have meant a chain of phone calls, emails and
spreadsheets.
KEY FACTS
-- Code will be released on GitHub a popular developer-collaboration site.
-- The bank is also offering $100,000 in annual funding for engineers to
build new applications using the code.
-- Recipients of the grants, whose applications open this week, will own
whatever they come up with.
-- Goldman will get an early look at promising technology.
WHY THIS MATTERS
This is Goldman's latest move to shed some of its trademark
secrecy and share its once closely guarded technology. It is part
of a broader shift at Wall Street firms to emulate Silicon Valley
giants like Google and Facebook which have opened up their
technology to a community of enthusiastic developers.
By letting outsiders tinker with its code, Goldman hopes to
crowdsource new uses for it and earn the loyalty of computer-driven
"quant" traders who have taken the investing world by storm.
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April 03, 2019 08:08 ET (12:08 GMT)
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