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Growth in fixed income futures algorithmic trading at JP Morgan has accelerated rapidly in 2020 as buy-side traders globally turned to the investment bank ’ s machine learning-equipped algos to grapple with intense market volatility .

Speaking to The TRADE , Peter Ward , global head of futures and options electronic execution at JP Morgan , explains that while the volatility contributed to recent growth , adoption of futures algo trading has picked up pace with clients significantly in the last few years .

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