Buy-Side Firms Fund Lab to Promote Supercomputing for Market Regulation

Infinium Capital Managment, Tudor Investment Corp., and AJO Partners are helping fund research aimed at stabilizing and enforcing an increasingly complex marketplace.

The Center for Innovative Financial Technology (CIFT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has received $100,000 in research donations to study the use of supercomputing and data intensive science to improve stability, regulation and enforcement in U.S. markets.

The funds were contributed by Tudor Investment Corporation of Greenwich CT, AJO Partners of Philadelphia, Infinium Capital Management of Chicago, and the NASDAQ/OMX Foundation, which is supporting both CIFT and an affiliated UC Berkeley computer scientist.

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