Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Bradley 'Brad' Katsuyama is an executive, and the President, CEO, and co-founder of the IEX exchange. Katsuyama is also the focus of Flash Boys a book by Michael Lewis about high frequency trading (HFT) in financial markets.Before founding IEX, Katsuyama worked for many years at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) where he noticed that placing a single large order that can be fulfilled only through many different stock exchanges was being taken as an advantage by stock scalpers. Scalpers, noticing the order would not be able to be fulfilled by one single exchange, would instead buy the securities in the other exchanges, so that by the time the rest of the large order arrived to those exchanges the scalpers could sell the securities at a higher price. All these events would happen in milliseconds not perceivable to humans but perceivable to supercomputers capable of noticing such events in microcosmic timeframes. He instead led a team that implemented THOR, a securities' order-management system where large orders are split into many different sub-orders with each sub-order arriving at the same time to all the exchanges through the use of intentional delays.. }
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- Brad_Katsuyama abstract "Bradley 'Brad' Katsuyama is an executive, and the President, CEO, and co-founder of the IEX exchange. Katsuyama is also the focus of Flash Boys a book by Michael Lewis about high frequency trading (HFT) in financial markets.Before founding IEX, Katsuyama worked for many years at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) where he noticed that placing a single large order that can be fulfilled only through many different stock exchanges was being taken as an advantage by stock scalpers. Scalpers, noticing the order would not be able to be fulfilled by one single exchange, would instead buy the securities in the other exchanges, so that by the time the rest of the large order arrived to those exchanges the scalpers could sell the securities at a higher price. All these events would happen in milliseconds not perceivable to humans but perceivable to supercomputers capable of noticing such events in microcosmic timeframes. He instead led a team that implemented THOR, a securities' order-management system where large orders are split into many different sub-orders with each sub-order arriving at the same time to all the exchanges through the use of intentional delays.".