Ex-HSBC Trader Scouts Financiers to Become Born-Again Coders
- Le Wagon sells a 9-week curriculum to students in 27 cities
- Candidates are changing careers and starting companies
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An ex-HSBC Holdings Plc trader who quit his job to learn code is persuading his former colleagues to follow in his footsteps.
Boris Paillard, who once developed equity and rates models at HSBC’s Paris office, is now co-founder of Le Wagon, a 9-week $8,000 boot camp that teaches computer code to a growing number of bankers, consultants and marketing types.