The system isn't well-designed. The actual mechanics of the stock trading process are jury-rigged to allow for the high volumes of trade we see. People have s

The system isn't well-designed. The actual mechanics of the stock trading process are jury-rigged to allow for the high volumes of trade we see. People have speculated that this is an area of application for distributed ledger technology, but the Australian Stock Exchange has been trying to roll out such a system and it has been slow: https://www.fintechfutures.com/2020/07/australian-securities-exchange-delays-blockchain-go-live-to-2022/ https://www.fintechfutures.com/2020/07/australian-securities...