Working from home could lead to more diversity in trading and market infrastructure, with staff located around the world, according to exchange veteran Mark Hemsley.

"Is diversity, or the negative part of that whether it might be gender bias or racial bias, are those products of a workplace where people are forced together and are they less like to happen when you are in a distributed environment because you are somewhat more detached from each other?" the former head of Cboe Europe said during a Financial News panel discussion on 30 September.