Tower Research Capital is a proprietary trading firm founded in 1998 that operates as a collection of independent quantitative trading and research teams. The firm provides infrastructure, technology platforms, market access, data, and computational resources that enable its trading pods to develop and execute systematic trading strategies across any time horizon, market, and asset class.
The company structures itself as a platform for performance, where systematic portfolio managers and engineers build strategies independently while benefiting from Tower's economies of scale. Tower invests continuously in market access infrastructure, low-latency trading systems, machine learning capabilities, data platforms, and risk management systems to support its trading operations.
Tower maintains offices globally and recruits quantitative traders, software engineers, and research professionals. The firm's business model centers on proprietary capital deployment through its network of internal trading teams that trade across equities, derivatives, fixed income, foreign exchange, and commodities.