Hot Topics in Tech: Top Tech Trends and Developments of 2015

• Blockchain revolutionizing the back office
• HFT is evil again
• HFT not as profitable as originally thought
• Exchanges spending money on tech startups
• Regulators are changing the technology landscape
• The auction tech impact
• Favorite/Craziest Stories of 2015
• Russian hackers stealing press releases from wire services
• The August flash crash
• Russia threatening to use HFT to crash the markets
• NYSE outage
• The leap second
• Twitter trading algos/bots

Things We Do NOT Want to Talk About in 2016

• Spoofing
• HFT is evil
• Dark pool tech
• More possible options exchanges