[justinlardinois]

Is "quant" finance industry jargon? I picked up the meaning from reading the article but I'm not familiar with the term.

[alsocasey]

Quant-itative analyst. Yes, industry jargon.

[bboreham]

Even worse, some banks use the initials "QA" for the function, completely ignoring the idea that those initials already have a meaning in software development.

[justinlardinois]

Finance has existed longer than software development; I think you might be mixing up the chicken and the egg here.

[pavlov]

Surely quality assurance (QA) has been a concern in physical products since the Industrial Revolution started. It's not a software industry term.

[justinlardinois]

Finance precedes the Industrial Revolution as well. But I think the real question is when each of those terms came into being.