For their grad project, Caplin's 2021 intake of grads (Fabio, Dan H, Jiaxuan and Jonathan) decided to create a system that would allow everyone in the company to know who would be in the office each day. This was especially important at the ...Read More
SEACON: 2023
SEACON at The Oval. Using your curiosity to innovate through experimentation is something we value at Caplin, and something we do during our dev days and hack days. This year’s SEACON often focused on ...Read More
WeatherVanes hack day
The theme for Caplin’s Winter Hackday 2022 was ‘Bringing it all together’, meaning to take any of our existing stack, products, and tools, and see what synergies we could produce. The WeatherVanes team (Mike and Marcus) ...Read More
Summer internship 2023
Together with John Wall and Mansi Manoj, I spent this summer on Caplin's internship programme, and I can say that ten weeks of the summer spent working for Caplin in London is the experience that every second year Computer Science student ...Read More
QA Financial Forum 2023
It was good to meet up with old friends and make some new ones at the QA Financial Forum 2023. There were a number of talks and panel discussions to listen to and learn from this year, ranging from European regulations ...Read More
Building a Data-Driven Sales Analysis Dashboard with Dash, Plotly, and Logistic Regression
In today's dynamic financial landscape, data-driven decisions are pivotal for successful sales strategies. The ability to visualise and analyse data before or during a sale can significantly impact outcomes. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll explore how ...Read More
SalesIQ: Empowering FX Sales Dealers with Predictive Insights
Caplin hackdays happen twice a year and are a perfect opportunity to try new things, many of which end up in our products. The theme for our July hackday was ‘Smart Caplin’, and our team SalesIQ wanted to investigate whether we ...Read More
URElf: Chrome extension to swiftly modify URL params
At Caplin, dev days offer an opportunity for engineers to take a break from their routine tasks, to delve into a side project or experiment with a new technology. During my recent dev day, ...Read More
Hack Day XVII – It’s My Bank In A Box!
Caplin runs a biannual internal hack day competition for employees to work on fun projects and spike new ideas for future products. For this hack day our team comprised Lukmann Butt, Ed Pratt and myself. ...Read More
Smarter – Hackday 17
In engineering circles, you’ll sometimes hear stories of 10x or 100x developers who are incredibly more productive than average. This doesn’t mesh well with my own experience. There certainly can be significant differences in productivity between developers, but the biggest differences ...Read More