Last year, Tabb Group famously researched the value of a millisecond in an automated trading environment. I wonder what the value of the secret trading strategies from one of the industry’s benchmark leaders is?

A Reuters blogger is reporting that a disgruntled former employee (Sergey Aleynikov) appears to have stolen Goldman’s program trading source code and uploaded it to a server somewhere in Germany. He was arrested June 4th and is being held on charges of “theft of trade secrets”. It’s a scene more out of James Bond than Jersey City, but it appears to be for real.

Goldman’s program trading platform is a crown jewel within the massively profitable firm. It will be interesting to see if any more information is made public, if there is fallout from their trade secrets possibly being for sale, and whether they will change their trading strategies.

Larry Neumann

From 2005 to 2017, Mr. Neumann was responsible for all aspects of strategic, corporate, product and vertical marketing. Before Solace, he held executive marketing positions with TIBCO and Oracle, and co-founded an internet software company called inCommon which was acquired by TIBCO. During his tenure at TIBCO, Mr. Neumann played a key role in planning company strategic direction relating to target markets and candidate acquisitions.

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