The Terminalist
Deconstructing financial markets by looking at data, infrastructure & technology.
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The Distribution Fallacy — Moats, Mechanisms, and Misreads
Before the overflight
The Portuguese cartographers of the fifteenth century held the most valuable commercial intelligence in Europe — accurate maps of the West African coast, the Indian Ocean trade routes, and the spice islands of So...
Asymmetry is all you need
Reuters, Bloomberg, and AlphaSense built information markets worth billions. Each rode a wave of technological transformation—but technology alone doesn’t explain their rise. The real engine is older, simpler, and more durable: shaping mark...
Sink or Schwim - An LSEG saga
In July 2019, the London Stock Exchange Group announced a transformative acquisition of Refinitiv that would reshape global financial data markets. Four years later, that transformation stands complete, turning LSEG from the best to the wor...
The Innkeeper Of Bruges
Walk onto any modern trading floor, and you'll encounter faceless servers humming with algorithmic precision, machines and bots conversing in an electronic symphony of bewildering complexity. The mathematics and computer science behind it i...
Post-Terminalism: Why alpha will compete outside the Terminal
We saw in the last post that financial market data fuels a trillion-dollar industry peddling alpha. This ecosystem splits into two distinct camps: the buy-side hunters relentlessly pursuing alpha, and the sell-side enablers providing the to...
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