Why the London Metal Exchange is investing £1m in new technology for old-style 'pit trading'

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LME chief technology officer Robin Paine talks to Computing about the Exchange's plans to upgrade its face-to-face trading technology

The trading floors of stock exchanges used to be legendary: noisy, crowded, sweaty and very physical: any trade for stocks, shares, commodities or whatever it was that the exchange specialised in t...

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