The firm is about to raise funds via an ICO to hire teams in London, Singapore and New York.
BNP Paribas's Pierre Rousseau says banks struggle to take advantage of data because it's fragmented throughout an institution.
A new initiative, openANX, aims to make blockchain and crypto-currency trading more institutionalized.
In Hong Kong, a foreign telco, Superloop, has gotten the jump on rivals by laying fiber to connect data centers more efficiently.
Equities trading and execution experienced digital-technological disruption more than a decade ago, but it needs reinventing.
Block Event, an Australian startup marrying electronic and sales trading for equity blocks, puts the human touch back into disruption.
