The Financial Times report on something that is not surprising in the least, as long as you are not living under a rock
- All 300 analysts joining JPMorgan's asset management division this year have been through mandatory coding training under a new pilot scheme
- About a third of the analysts and associates at JPMorgan's corporate and investment bank were also put through the programme
Link for more (FT is gated, though if you know some computer stuff I am sure you can by pass that right?)
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Reminds me of the question I was asked recently in comments, some chap wanted to join a hedge fund/investment bank/something like that as a trader and asked me how he should go about doing so. I said learn to code.
I didn't get a reply. Tumbleweeds it was.
Yeah, drawing moving averages on charts ain't gonna cut it any more.
