Platforms Vie to Become the Connective Tissue of Wall Street – FT

Data must move cleanly and seamlessly between different systems to avoid lags and errors. Hence the rising interest in special platforms that can combine systems across trading, portfolio management and investment banking, reducing the risk of glitches by allowing data based on one standard to be used across a range of applications. Helping the banks do that are providers such as OpenFin, Glue42 and ChartIQ, each hoping to become the connective tissue of Wall Street.