I've been in a few (3) setups like these. The problem is always cost. The thing that really breaks the banks balls are the cost of telecoms and if you want access to services like Reuters, Inet, Bloomberg etc. These services are really expensive and can easily spiral out of control. I must admit that I have given this idea a lot of thought, and our company even played with the idea of setting up a trading hub (GL Trade servers, SAFEX, telecoms, Bloomberg, Inet, Reuters services). This would have been for the smaller trading companies that could not afford their own (trading platform) infrastructure. We just couldn't get past the JSE with compliance issues on shared services on the same infrastructure, although they do exactly the same. If you want to make this work, you will have to do the following: No network, each guy provides his own infrastructure - laptop, 3G connection, data feeds etc. You get a chair, a table coffee, tea and the occasional beer. The sell comes in with the training provided. This environment could be shared with people that telecommute to work (any work) of which the numbers are growing daily in Gauteng
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