As the equity trading industry gathered at TradeTech in Paris this week to discuss the latest developments in terms of liquidity pools, new trading venues, smart order routing or low latency, it is interesting to note comments made about financial markets by European political and business leaders in recent weeks.
The departing chairman of insurance giant […]

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IT professionals will be happy to learn they can now count star (or is it “rogue”?) trader Jerôme Kerviel as one of their colleagues.
The French media revealed yesterday that Kerviel had been hired a couple of weeks ago by an IT consulting firm, LCA. The company’s owner, Jean-Raymond Lemaire, told Agence France Presse Kerviel has […]

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