The foreign exchange market was not the first to embrace electronic trading but it was among the earliest. The migration to dealing on screen, certainly in spot, has resulted in many benefits – the transparency it introduced has encouraged the entrance of a vast new range of market participants – but it also led to a significant decrease, ironically, in networking. The days when dealers from rival banks met up after work, often sponsored by their brokers, have long past.
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