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I wonder if the openness of cryptocurrency and blockchain tech prompted this in any way. edit: can someone explain why I'm getting downvoted?
by subroutine 9y ago
I wonder if the openness of cryptocurrency and blockchain tech prompted this in any way.
edit: can someone explain why I'm getting downvoted?
- icahnvalyou 9y agoThat + bloomberg hate + symphony's ridiculously good reception in the markets. Symphony's starting look like it could be finance's heroku/slack.
- jgalt212 9y agoBloomberg hate is really only the management level. At the user level, it's mostly love. Of course, by and large, the user does not directly foot the $20K/year bill.
- icahnvalyou 9y agotruth (and Stockholm syndrome).
- infinii 9y agoBecause the reason is plainly stated in the article if you bothered to read it. Also, OSS existed for decades before the blockchain came along so to question any correlation between this and that would be absurd.
- subroutine 9y agoI did bother to read the 7 paragraphs. My question is basically that - OSS existed for decades; why only now in big finance? That their clients wanted such a trading platform... is that the reason you are saying was plainly stated?