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  • Why the most expensive inefficiency on a City trading desk is the one nobody measures

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    At a time when geopolitics can be completely upended over the weekend, trades that have been agreed on a Friday but aren’t booked ’til Monday have become one of the biggest vulnerabilities in a desk’s profit and loss swing, says Oliver Blower Since the dawn of time, City trading desks have prided themselves on their [...]

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