Beacon is born from decades of collective experience
Mark Higgins and Kirat Singh started Beacon Platform to share their lessons learned from almost 20 years of experience developing trading and risk management systems for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs. Beacon Platform delivers the robustness and flexibility of these powerful tools in a next-generation, cloud-native platform, so that you can get more value out of your R&D.


The only platform you need
Make your firm more agile
End-to-end platform boosts developer productivity, enabling them to quickly build, test, and deploy models, analytics, and applications.
Increase ROI on R&D
Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, modern data science foundation, and comprehensive set of models and analytics provide core functionality to build on.
Build apps in days
Web application framework and rapid prototyping tools abstract browser stack and allow quant developers to focus on business value.
2.5x
Reduction in 5-year total cost of ownership versus building in-house
160x
Reduce calculation time from 8 hours to 3 minutes by spinning up thousands of processors
45
Minutes to run 30-year xVA simulation on 200,000 positions on 10,000 cores, which cost $72
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"Our portfolio managers around the world will have broad access to Beacon’s platform for faster and more efficient use of PIMCO's proprietary risk analytics and quantitative research, helping them implement investment strategies to deliver attractive returns for our clients.”
Emmanuel Roman, Chief Executive Officer, PIMCO