Financial News unveiled its inaugural Twenty Most Influential in Trading and Technology list on 6 November.
The sector is facing a host of opportunities and challenges, ranging from Brexit and blockchain to regulation and the state of capital markets.
Many of our trading titans have reflected on these in recent months as part of our profile series, An Audience With.
Read on for what they had to say.
The UK wants to compete on openness. That’s quite refreshing
We went from post-trade backwater to front page news
Our job is to help the market evolve, help clients evolve
It’s foolhardy for crypto to take on the regulators
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Julia Hoggett, London Stock Exchange
Rolling me out as an example of diversity is evidence we haven’t fixed it yet
Matthew Chamberlain, London Metal Exchange
LME boss says he has a plan to win back trust after wiping $4bn in nickel trades
SIX Group boss on the City post Brexit, and why Swiss neutrality is ‘not viable’ in wake of Russia
Exchange boss says post-Brexit London hasn’t lost its finance crown — yet
Christophe Roupie, MarketAxess
Brexit does make life a bit more difficult
What Facebook did was ridiculously stupid
Deutsche Börse-LSE failure was ‘not a matter of luck’
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