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SUMMARY:London Seminar: Paul Bilokon: The Secrets of HFT
LOCATION:The Blackett Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 34% · why: lots of
  people going · starting soon\n\nPlease note that this event will take pla
 ce IN PERSON on Friday\, 31 July\, 2026 in London at 6pm London time (1pm 
 New York time).\n\nIn collaboration with Imperial College London.\n\nFull 
 title: The Secrets of HFT\n\nSpeaker: Paul Bilokon\n\nAbstract: High-frequ
 ency trading is often portrayed as a mysterious contest fought at impossib
 le speeds by secretive firms and powerful machines. But what actually happ
 ens inside an HFT system - and how did financial markets evolve into envir
 onments where nanoseconds\, network routes\, processor architecture\, and 
 queue position can determine success?\n\nThe Secrets of HFT takes the audi
 ence behind the screens to explore the history\, technology\, and strategy
  of high-frequency trading. We will trace the development of electronic ma
 rkets\, examine the networks and specialised hardware that move informatio
 n at extraordinary speeds\, and uncover the software architectures require
 d to make decisions reliably under extreme latency constraints. We will th
 en turn to the strategic layer: order-book dynamics\, execution\, adverse 
 selection\, competition\, and risk.\n\nRather than treating HFT as either 
 magic or menace\, this talk presents it as a remarkable meeting point of f
 inance\, mathematics\, computer science\, engineering\, and game theory. D
 esigned for students\, practitioners\, and academics alike\, it reveals ho
 w modern markets really work - and why the fastest decision is not always 
 the smartest one.\n\nVenue: Blackett LT2\, Blackett Laboratory\, Imperial 
 College London\, 180 Queen's Gate\, South Kensington\, London SW7 2BW\n\nB
 iography: Paul Bilokon is Head of Market Making at MFT Energy\, CEO at Tha
 lesians Ltd\, and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He is als
 o a board member at Thalesians Marine and Turnleaf Analytics.\n\nHe has wo
 rked at major financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley\, Lehman Broth
 ers\, Nomura\, Citigroup\, Deutsche Bank\, BNP Paribas\, qSpark and many o
 thers\, focusing on electronic trading\, market making\, and high-frequenc
 y trading. In particular\, he was a pioneer of electronic trading in fixed
  income and credit.\n\nPaul has co-authored (with Matthew Dixon and Igor H
 alperin) Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice (2020\, Spri
 nger)\, and (with Jack Jacquier\, Ewan Mackie\, and Aitor Muguruza) An Int
 roduction to Python for Quantitative Finance: From Scratch to Productivity
  (2026\, World Scientific).\n\nHe holds MSci and PhD degrees from Imperial
  College and MSc from the University of Oxford\, where he came top of his 
 class. His papers have been published in Journal of Applied Probability\, 
 Journal of Financial Data Science\, Journal of FinTech\, Journal of Parall
 el and Distributed Computing\, Logic in Computer Science\, Theoretical Com
 puter Science\, and Wilmott.\n\nPaul is an expert developer in kdb+/q\, SQ
 L\, C++\, C\, Java\, Python\, and is now learning Rust.\n\nLinks:\n\nPaul'
 s academic page: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/paul.bilokon01
URL:https://www.meetup.com/thalesians/events/315719564/
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