The ‘Fintech age’ took off in earnest in the mid to late 1980s with the advent of the first automated tools to support financial markets trading. In short order, these products and services evolved from basic, screen-based communications solutions facilitating instant access – initially to interbank counterparties – to more sophisticated price distribution, conversational trading, and price matching systems that revolutionized the way traditional markets were traded.
Learn more about why financial markets aren’t 100% electronic in a new article from our Director of Consumer Solutions, Richard Hunter, featured on Markets Media.