Website Magazine (September 14)
“By and large, the Web is now a gigantic global software platform. And by extension, modern Web design is no longer Web design; it’s product design.”
Tags: Global, Internet, Platform, Product design, Software, Web design
Institutional Investor (January 31)
“A platform war is intensifying in the global foreign exchange market, with more than half a dozen entrants jumping into the space in the past few months. It’s still too early to know which platforms will emerge as winners, but the proliferation of venues is already sparking declines in already-low trading costs, with banks earning less on each trade, in a situation similar to what’s happened in equity markets over the past decade. One banker estimates that revenue per trade has dropped by about 9 percent over the past year through a narrowing of bid-offer spreads.”