Intelligence: From the Wild, Wild West to the big five – a potted history of the broker software market

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From police raids to junkets to Iceland, across being chased out of broker offices, legal spats, team lifts and more, the history of the broking software sector is not short of incidents. Post met with a selection of the founders, movers and shakers to find out how the industry came about.

In the mid-70s, as any viewer of TV and films from the past will know, smoke filled offices were littered with paper, filing cabinets, typewriters and rotary dial phones. What they didn’t have were

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