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…“It’s about working with vendors who specialise in things like aggregation, analytics, smart execution, and that has to be part of the evolution because it’s impossible to do everything in-house,” said Danielle Caravetta, director of global sales at Pragma Securities.

…Curtis Pfeiffer, chief business officer at Pragma Securities, a multi-asset quantitative trading technology provider, said in an email: “The internationalization of the Chinese currency continues…”

Algorithmic trading is set to flourish in 2019, as many market participants, particularly banks, focus their attention on recalibrating their technology stacks to compete more effectively in an environment where automation, efficiency and transparency have become the norm, says David Mechner, co-founder and chief executive of algo technology provider Pragma Securities.