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Buy & Build: Don’t Hire Picasso to Paint Your Living Room

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On this episode of FinTech Focus TV recorded at A-Team Group’s Buy AND Build Summit, Toby Babb of Harrington Starr sits down with Paul Humphrey, CEO and Elliot Banks, CPO of BMLL to discuss how historical market data is reshaping trading technology.

From the shift from build vs buy to build on trust, to why data quality is the foundation of every successful AI and machine learning application, Paul and Elliot share how BMLL is redefining what it means to innovate in market data.

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