FRANKEL+

We are a quantitative finance and technology company grounded in cutting-edge research, powered by engineering and driven by curiosity. Not hierarchy.

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We aim to reshape systematic sports trading from first principles. Developing systems that learn fast, execute faster and adapt to live markets. We'll build together, move precisely and won't shy away from complexity.

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We are into tight feedback loops, high-performance systems and problems that push back.

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We believe in enabling, empowering and enriching people’s lives. We will develop highly accurate, continually improving and elegantly designed predictive models for financial sports markets, resulting in outstanding R.O.I. experiences.

 

Our vision:    

A great workplace with dream teams in pursuit of ambitious common goals, in which we invest heavily.

 

Our mission: 

To create environments that encourage, empower and enable the intrinsic motivation, curiosity, cooperation and joy in learning that we are all born with, resulting in everyone fully contributing to developing incredibly accurate Predictive Models for the markets we operate in.

 

Our Success:

We will consider ourselves successful when you love what you do, along with the people you do it with, through having the right relationship with others, with your work and with your life outside of work.

 

“We take care of people.

People take care of business.

Business takes care of profits.

Profits take care of people."

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FRANKELPLUS is a small, information-led start-up like no other you’ll come across. We are based half a dozen miles south of Leeds in the city of Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

 

We operate in a niche market within the fast-moving financial sports markets. The particular niche we currently operate in has a market turnover of £3bn a year in the UK alone.

 

• Our first goal is to build market share in this sector to 1% (you can do the maths). 

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• Our second is to develop this same market internationally.

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• Our third goal is a gradual move, over the next three to five years, into other related markets, firstly within the UK and then internationally. 

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We do the most unexpected things. Some would call it counter-intuitive; we call it superb business practice.

 

We are not about the big and the brash, fighting for survival in the corporate shark tank. We are about the calm and collected: identifying, gathering and interpreting the silent clues, hidden in plain sight and delivering them - beautifully packaged.

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We believe the best solutions (products) emerge from highly collaborative cross-functional teams, where everyone has a stake in what is being built and a clear understanding of why, rather than just concerning themselves with how to deliver it.

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We expect to remain small(ish). We may grow in numbers over time; however, we expect that the combined expertise and skills, the leverage of the best available technology and software will significantly improve our productivity and profitability year-on-year. Whoever said “Good things come in small packages” was on the right track in our opinion.

  

We are not into the latest trends or fads. And “hype” is a foreign concept to us. We happily admit that the ‘tried and tested' ways are the best. That which has proven to work over time is what we embrace: Honesty; transparency; loyalty; empathy; equality; inclusivity; fairness; helpfulness; diversity; authenticity; reliability; responsibility; commitment and perseverance - and let's never forget laughter!

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These are some of the qualities we individually and collectively live and promote. We don’t just think they make for a better quality of life – we know that they are keys to a good life. It’s like breathing - which is certainly traditional and undoubtedly old-fashioned - but essential to living life to the full.

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We strive to blend an old-world charm with state-of-the-art technology and an obsessive focus on both the individual and corporate objective performance.

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Should you ask us to summarise ourselves in a phrase we would probably say: “We are a collection of contradictions”, possibly a bit like yourself?

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