Bank of America Trading Application Hackathon

UCLFINDS, Le Wagon & DataSpartan are proud to partner up with Bank of America Merril Lynch to deliver a 2 day Coding Challenge Hackathon Event to provide you with an insight into the world of financial markets software development.

The challenge will focus on creating a web trading application that BAML traders could use to help them find and uncover new market opportunities. This app could stream real time price feed information or leverage multiple sources of data combining it into a streamlined user interface. It could also incorporate elements of machine learning to simplify the decision making process for traders. You will be free to use any programming language, any UI technology and any open-source libraries. The exact details of the challenge won’t be released until the day. Teams of up to 4 are allowed. You can come as a team or a singleton – we’ll form teams on the day. Refreshment and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided throughout the day.

Agenda:

• November 18th
• 9:00AM - 10:00AM - Breakfast & Introduction
• 10:00AM - 12:00AM - Teams form and hacking begins
• 12:00AM - 12:30PM - Lunch break
• 12:30PM - 7:00 PM - Hacking
• 7:00PM - 8:00PM - Dinner
• 8:00PM - 10:00PM - More hacking
• November 19th
• 9:00AM - 10:00AM - Breakfast
• 10:00AM - 12:00AM - Hacking
• 12:00AM - 12:30PM - Lunch break
• 12:30PM - 4:00 PM - Hacking
• 4:00PM - 5:00PM - Teams present to judges
• 5:00PM - 5:30PM - Judges announce winner and distribute prizes
• 5:30PM - 7:00PM - Networking reception

Prizes:

• 1ST PRIZE - Final Round Interview for BAML Technology Graduate Programme for all team members and £75 Amazon Vouchers for all team members.
• 2ND PRIZE - £50 Amazon Vouchers for all team members.
• 3RD PRIZE - £25 Amazon Vouchers for all team members.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is a multinational corporate and investment bank. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009.

DataSpartan specialises in consulting within the financial industry and has particular expertise in the areas of Big Data, Quantitative Research, High Performance Computing, Machine Learning and Risk Modelling. Their market advantage is the incorporation of recognised academic research with cost effective and highly productive human capital to produce the results our clients require. DS uses their academic networks and relationships with UCL and Imperial as well as their extensive internal database to source the best talent within the finance industry.

Le Wagon is a coding school which was created in 2013 by an ex-Google engineer and an ex-HSBC engineer. They designed a 9-week coding bootcamp during which students - who have no prior coding knowledge - learn how to code in Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML and CSS. By the end of the 9 weeks, students have developed a full-fledged web product, live and fully functional. We now have more than 2,000 alumni around the world, we're in 24 cities worldwide!