Bloomberg: Speed trader Hudson River chooses Dublin as post-Brexit home

14 October 2018

Hudson River Trading LLC, one of Europe’s biggest equity traders, picked Dublin to be its base in the European Union once the UK leaves the bloc next March.

According to its website, the speed trader is seeking to fill three jobs in Dublin: a compliance officer and two people in trading operations. The U.S.-headquartered firm ranks alongside Citadel Securities LLC, Jane Street Financial Ltd. and Tower Research Capital as one of the biggest algorithmic traders of European equities.

A Hudson River spokesman confirmed in an email that the firm has sought regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Ireland to operate in the Irish capital. The company plans to open a Dublin office with more than five employees before the end of this year. It intends to hire more people in 2019, the firm said, without elaborating further. [...]

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