Emerging Frontiers on the Data Analytics Battlefield

Probably the biggest change in the FX market over the past 10 years has been the availability of data. This is not to say that we never had data before, most voice traders relied upon their brokers to tell them where the market was – and although it was (very!) unreconstructed, it was data.

In terms of hard numbers on a screen, the market was revolutionised by Reuters terminals in the 1970s, enhanced by the launch of rival offerings (nearly all borne out of a news service), and then again with the launch of electronic trading and mobile apps.