The Long Pursuit of Speed in Finance How traders from the 18th century to today raced to get the edge In 1790, barely a year after the United States Constitution took effect, Representative James Jackson of Georgia rose in Congress to denounce a new breed of...

On 14 January 2025, Paul Alexander Bilokon interviewed Daniel J. Duffy, the founder and owner of Datasim Education BV (founded 1989), which was one of the first pioneering companies to promote C++, object-oriented programming, system...

The Long Pursuit of Speed in Finance How traders from the 18th century to today raced to get the edge In 1790, barely a year after the United States Constitution took effect, Representative James Jackson of Georgia rose in Congress to denounce a new breed of speculators. These men, he claimed, had chartered swift vessels to outrun official couriers, buying up government debt at a fraction of its value in anticipation of Alexander Hamilton’s plan to assume Revolutionary War obligations. Jackson thundered that ordinary citizens were being “plundered by harpies.” That colorful phrase, which gives Bob Pisani’s article its title (Financial History, Museum of American Finance, Fall 2014), captures a recurring anxiety...

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Managing Director Oleksandr Bilokon (Thalesians Ltd and Thalesians Marine...

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