by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
For Charles Farra, there were many steps on the path to electronic trading that saw him start as a runner for Cargill Investor Services in 1981 and work his way up in the organization. He would serve the firm in Chicago, London and Tokyo during a time when new...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
THE TRIP FROM A SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE TO THE HEIGHTS OF WALL STREET Tim Brennan did not know what he wanted to do after graduating from a small liberal arts college with a degree in psychology. As with many other traders from this era, his mom had a friend who...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
Alex Lamb pursued one opportunity after another in the burgeoning financial futures markets in Europe starting in the mid-1970s, then later with technology providers to markets around the world that migrated to electronic formats. After he hired Gary Kemp as a...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
JLN INTERVIEWS VETERAN TRADING, TECHNOLOGY AND BROKERING EXECUTIVE FOR THE PATH TO ELECTRONIC TRADING SERIES Alex Lamb wanted to be a helicopter pilot in the U.K. Royal Airforce. He never had the chance, but he strategically landed opportunity after opportunity in the...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
ADMIS Executive, Engineer and Problem Solver Talks About Building OAK Trading System John Walls is an executive with ADM Investor Services, but he started in the industry like many others of his generation as a trading floor messenger or runner. As a runner on the...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
In Part Two of Robin Trott – The Path to Electronic Trading, Trott talked about how block trade and call-around markets developed in Europe. Platforms were rushing to write to all of the individual European markets. There were a large number of them back then. “From...
