Market players believe Bank of America has pulled off a shrewd move with its takeover of Financial Labs, a specialist in algorithmic-driven pricing and trading.
FinLabs is a trading firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staffed by a team of mathematicians and astrophysicists. One market participant says that FinLabs has a market-making program that sends many bids and offers into the various liquidity platforms that make up the FX market. When it trades, it immediately switches to the other side of the deal and it is said to capture the bid-offer spread repeatedly throughout the day.
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