BNP Paribas's Pierre Rousseau says banks struggle to take advantage of data because it's fragmented throughout an institution.
A new initiative, openANX, aims to make blockchain and crypto-currency trading more institutionalized.
In Hong Kong, a foreign telco, Superloop, has gotten the jump on rivals by laying fiber to connect data centers more efficiently.
Equities trading and execution experienced digital-technological disruption more than a decade ago, but it needs reinventing.
Block Event, an Australian startup marrying electronic and sales trading for equity blocks, puts the human touch back into disruption.