Chicago Trading Company

09/15/2021

CTC is honored to participate in the Girls Who Code Hiring Summit. We can't wait to meet all the talented students at today's event!

New York, NY -- (September 14, 2021) -- Girls Who Code (GWC), an international nonprofit working to close the gender gap in technology, announced its second Hiring Summit – a one-day event designed to connect the Girls Who Code community with internship and job opportunities in the technical…

08/12/2021

CTC's 2021 Hackweek concluded a few weeks ago! Every year, employees can submit Hackweek shirt designs that are voted on by all employees and this year's winning design was created by Michael Schwager, he is pictured here with the winning design!

07/06/2021

We are excited to announce that we have joined the Pyth network.

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06/30/2021

CTC celebrated Pride Month with a new art installation in our Chicago office -- Happy Pride Month!

05/07/2021

CTC is honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by making a donation to One Book One World. We are excited to support their efforts to provide Chicago metropolitan area K-12 schools with a wider selection of books that promote awareness of Asian American History and their contributions to our communities and country.

As part of the AAPI Heritage Month (May 1-31), UCA IL, CAC and CNPCPS are raising money to support Chicago metropolitan area K-12 schools with a wider selection of books that promote awareness of Asian American History and their contributions to our communities and country. 

12/18/2020

CTC is proud to announce the addition of two new members to our Partnership, Natasha Pekelis and Alison Potish.

Natasha Pekelis joined CTC in March of this year as our Chief Information Officer, is a member of the firm’s Executive Management, and holds one of the most important strategic roles in the firm. She has extensive experience as a proven leader responsible for building, leading, and developing large global teams and delivering significant business value.

Alison Potish joined CTC in 2015 and is a highly-skilled and experienced Practice Leader on our Human Capital Management team, focused on bringing out the best in our teams. As the chief architect and key practitioner of CTC’s strategic people initiatives, she has successfully partnered with CTC leaders and impacted numerous teams across the firm, unlocking significant business value.

As a private company, CTC partners serve as stewards for the firm’s journey to endure as a top tier trading company, a phenomenal workplace, and a positive contributor to the markets and our community.

12/10/2020

Congratulations to Lana Gonzales & Rana Napoli for winning the Rising Star award at this year's Markets Media Women in Finance awards! Lana & Rana are valuable contributors and great teammates, and we are very grateful to have them both at CTC.

Our Rising Stars are so good they need their own event! These are remarkable women in areas such as buy-side and sell-side trading, exchange operations, financial…

10/08/2020

We are celebrating CTC's 25th anniversary this year! While we wish we could have celebrated in person, we enjoyed a virtual toast instead. Each employee received a 25th Anniversary at Home box and we were happy to partner with several local small businesses (Carol's Cookies Giant Cookie Club & Eris Brewery and Cider House) to help with our celebration!

10/05/2020

We are saddened by the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor and by the lack of accountability for her unnecessary death. In honor of Ms. Taylor, we are donating $26,000 to each of the following organizations, $1,000 for each year of Breonna’s all too short life.
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: which fights racial injustice through litigation, advocacy, and public education.
Black Girls Break Bread: their mission is to empower, uplift and inspire Black women and girls through the creation of safe spaces for intergenerational discourse and engagement.
Black Girls Code: BGC is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and do so much more.

09/10/2020

CTC is excited to be recruiting virtually this fall for our Software Engineer Intern and Quant Trading Analyst Intern positions! Check out our campus webpage to learn more about our program and our events page to sign up for our virtual events.
Program info: https://www.chicagotrading.com/campus
Virtual events: https://ctc.recsolu.com/external/events_central

09/04/2020

We are continuing to celebrate birthdays at home! We sent a box of fresh fruit from The FruitGuys to all employees to celebrate August birthdays and we enjoyed seeing the creative recipes our employees came up with to use their fruit!

07/13/2020

CTC's 2020 virtual Hackweek is kicking off this week! Every year, employees can submit Hackweek shirt designs that are voted on by all employees and this year's winning design was created by Caitlin Cleary, she is pictured here with the winning design!