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Exchanges to Innovate for Increased Retail Flow

by Shanny Basar

Fergus Keenan, chief strategy officer at Adaptive Financial Consulting, the specialist global electronic trading consultancy, told Markets Media that the influx of sophisticated retail users has increased performance expectations for venues and accelerated the need to provide customized solutions.

“Equity brokers currently providing services for the retail market have vendor products that they put together, or maybe white label, and they are understanding that’s not cutting it,” said Keenan. “We have been helping firms to build resiliency, for uptime to be 100% and to architecture solutions that can scale.”

Keenan expects market structure to revolve to provide multi-asset access points including equities and digital assets.

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