Tag: Hackday

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

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

For this season's hack day our team, Jack Cusack, Harry Hornby and myself, decided to focus on reducing the complexity and improving the transparency of price administration of an FX trading system without reducing or restricting the functionality, and having any ...Read More

... it’s the exciting comradery that makes this a great initiative for all involved. It’s really motivating and great for team morale. ...Mncedi Maila, Channels & Platforms Lead at Standard Bank Picture this: a day of getting ...Read More

This month, Caplin held its biannual hackday event. Developers got into teams of up to 3 and had 24 hours to produce something befitting this year's theme: Speed. Along with my colleague Andrew Voneshen we formed the team “Driving Miss ...Read More

Our streaming server Liberator serves financial data to browsers with low latency and high resilience.  We’ve used it for trading and pricing all kinds of assets in web based trading systems, and particularly for FX. However, this genericity means ...Read More

If you didn’t already know, Hackday is Caplin’s version of a Hackathon. Yes, a gathering of highly gifted software engineers, UX designers and Sales Consultants who break up into teams (or go lone warrior) and code for ...Read More