20th May 2013 - In this interview, we talk to John Lowrey, Global Head of Electronic Trading and DMA Services at Marex Spectron who, during a long and illustrious career in the City, has held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, Knight Securities, Lehman Brothers, Nomura and Chi-X. A true pioneer of electronic trading infrastructure and services, John shares his thoughts on a wide range of topics, including:

- How and why markets are becoming more correlated
- The true cost of some of the regulatory proposals that are on the table
- The relationship between HFT and the retail investor
- The growth of algorithmic trading in the commodities sector.

17th April 2013 - In this interview, we talk to Remco Lenterman, Managing Director of IMC Financial Markets and Chairman of the FIA European Principal Traders Association (EPTA). Remco discusses how and why attitudes to HFT are changing, particularly amongst the buy-side, and addresses some common criticisms and myths around HFT, including:

- Feedback loops, mini-flash crashes and their causes: HFT or institutional algos?
- What would the market look like if all HFT activity were to cease?
- The economics of maker-taker pricing, rebate capture and spread capture
- What is rebate arbitrage, latency arbitrage and regulatory arbitrage?

2nd April 2013 - In this interview, Scott Sellers, President, CEO & Co-Founder of Azul Systems, discusses how application performance in a Java trading environment can be massively improved by using the right Java Virtual Machine (JVM):

- What are the shortcomings with traditional JVMs?
- Why the garbage collection process can have such a significant impact on performance
- How to use more memory without increasing worst-case pauses
- How much JVM tuning is required in order to achieve optimum performance?
- Open source free tools for identifying bottlenecks

11th Feb 2013 - In this interview, Arnaud Derasse, CEO & Laurent de Barry, Head of Customer Support at Enyx, discuss how firms are increasingly implementing FPGA-based solutions to run applications at “wire level” to reduce latency:

- How can FPGAs help with wireless/microwave links?
- How do FPGAs benefit exchanges, data vendors and end-user trading & investment firms?
- Different approaches to implementation: what is right for your firm?
- The importance of taking a step-by-step, iterative approach
- What does the future hold?

24th Jan 2013 - In this interview, we talk to Alex Preda, Professor of Finance at King’s College London, about the "rise of the machine" in financial trading, and how the human trader is developing new resoures to fight back and in some cases beat the robots:

- How is the role of retail traders changing in the new electronic landscape?
- What are the new opportunities that computerised trading has created?
- How are individual traders in different locations using technology to work in groups?
- What methods are human traders using to identify & capitalise on robot activity?
- How are algorithm developers finding ways to hide their algos' patterns?
- Can abuse by robots only be detected by other robots?

31st Oct 2012 - In this interview, Stephane Hauradou, Vice President of ACCELIZE, talks about some of the choice firms have to make when implementing FPGA-enabled technology in their trading architectures, and discusses:

- Where growth is most evident in the adoption of FPGAs for financial trading
- Working with FPGA-enabled appliances versus working right down at the chip level
- Performance versus ease-of-use
- Challenges that firms face when moving from a software to a hardware-based environment
- C-to-gate compilers