Squarepoint Capital

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Squarepoint Capital
Type Private
Industry Financial services
PredecessornQuant
FoundedDecember 16, 2014;8 years ago (2014-12-16)
Founders
  • Olivier Durantel
  • Gregoire Schneider
  • Antoine Fillet
  • Maxime Fortin
Headquarters250 West 55th Street, New York City, New York, U.S.
Products Investment Management
AUM US$ 75.7 billion (2022)
Number of employees
725 (2022)
Website www.squarepoint-capital.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Squarepoint Capital ("Squarepoint") is a global investment management firm headquartered in New York City with additional offices in Europe and Asia. The firm is known for its quantitative finance approach to investing.

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Background

The origins of Squarepoint can be traced to nQuant, a proprietary trading unit founded within Lehman Brothers in 2000. [2] [3] [4] [5] Its founders were Olivier Durantel and Gregoire Schneider. [2] [3] [4] [5] Antoine Fillet and Maxime Fortin joined the team in 2003 and 2004 respectively. [2] All four of them were alumni of École Polytechnique, a French engineering school. [3] nQuant was sold to Barclays in 2008 after it acquired Lehman Brothers North American operations. [2] [3] [4] [5]

In May 2014, Barclays announced it planned to cut jobs and businesses that were not considered part of its core business. [2] nQuant, was considered a non-core business and the Volcker Rule meant it could no longer perform proprietary trading activities under a commercial bank. [2] [5] In August 2014, it was reported that nQuant was going to be spun off as an independent firm with 60 employees leaving. [2] [3] [4] [5]

On December 15, 2014, nQuant was spun off as an independent firm and was renamed to Squarepoint. [3] [4] [5] [6] On January 2, 2015, Squarepoint received approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to manage investments on behalf of third parties. [4] [5] [6] Within two years of its launch, Squarepoint doubled its staff headcount. [4]

According the firm's filing in 2020, 80% of its investors are non-U.S. [3]

In October 2021, Squarepoint entered a strategic partnership with Arini Capital, a European hedge fund. [7] [8] Squarepoint would provide support to the fund. [7] [8]

In March 2022, it was reported Squarepoint has been trading bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange but has been hesitant on crypto trading. [9]

Lawsuits

Footnoted.com

Footnoted.com was a financial news and research website founded by Michelle Leder. [3] Leder launched a lawsuit against Squarepoint alleging it had stolen 16,000 pages worth of information without paying. [3]

Vojislav Sesum

In April 2018, Squarepoint launched a lawsuit against a former employee, Vojislav Sesum, who it claimed had developed a trading strategy while at Squarepoint and subsequently offered it to Millennium Management. [3] The arbitrator initially directed Sesum to pay Squarepoint $188,137 in damages plus $919,053 disgorged profits he received from Millennium although the final order issued in 2020 was partially reduced. [3]

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