Trends in Electronic Trading

In the past 20 years, electronic trading technology has opened up what was a largely interbank domain to a much broader financial community that includes investment managers, buy-side and retail firms and increasingly, non-traditional, technology-led firms. From the early days of order management systems and price-matching platforms, trading technologies have become increasingly sophisticated with rapid take-up of new algorithmic and automated trading strategies as well as increased interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technologies. Today, traditional exchanges and venues share the trading stage with multilateral trading facilities, alternative trading systems, electronic communication networks, dark pools and crossing networks, all of which require interconnectivity and interoperability.

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