The new boss of one of London’s most feted financial technology companies said he left the investment banking world because, as computers began taking over markets, there was less and less for traders like him to do.

A lack of work is no longer a problem for Scott Eaton. As chief executive of Algomi, a firm at the forefront of the emerging revolution in electronic bond trading, Eaton has to convince stubborn bond market participants to put down their phones, hurry up and embrace the growing (some would say inevitable) ‘electronification’ of the market.