April 2010
Foreign exchange: Google makes push into financial markets
by Trevor Carr, Silvia Antonioli
Google Finance has hired the former global head of FX for Bloomberg, Philip Brittan, to lead its attempt to break the stranglehold on financial information by Reuters and Bloomberg. Google wants to develop a more competitive financial data and analytics provision model, according to market participants.
A spokesperson for Google confirmed to Euromoney that "Philip Brittan started to work for Google Finance last March 15 as a product management director."
Brittan was previously global business manager for FX and economics at Bloomberg.
Fenics
A computer science graduate of Harvard, Brittan started his career in 1988 at Astrogamma as a programmer, rising to become the company’s...
