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London, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Founder & Architect at London Mercantile Exchange Ltd

Finance / Banking / Insurance

Peter is the architect and led the development of the innovative distributed information system called TOPIC that underpinned the London Stock Exchange’s move from floor to screen trading at the time of Big Bang in 1986. Unlike the proprietary green screens that were then the norm, TOPIC used open standards, and featured colour screens to indicate price trends, blue for up and red for down, a convention has been widely adopted. Designed in the pre-internet age, TOPIC featured a standardised mark-up language, page to page hyper-links and an easy to use API to enable Exchange members and third-parties to contribute pages. It became a huge commercial success and grew to earn a third of Excha...