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As cloud adoption across the market continues to rise , is the shift of liquidity itself next to follow ?

As cloud adoption picks up pace across the capital markets industry , CLAUDIA PREECE examines what leading market experts think about the current state of play and what the future holds . Cloud providers are banking on the fact that exchanges moving to the cloud will effectively “ drag ” the rest of their surrounding ecosystem along with them , asserts one market onlooker .

Innovation is inevitable as market participants continually seek to enhance their operations across the board , and stock exchanges and trading venues are perhaps some of the most prominent advocates of embracing emerging technological advancements .

With these entities arguably the heart of the trading world , where the real moves are executed , how is the market set to react as cloud adoption continues to surge and is subsequently pumped into the veins of their surrounding ecosystem ?
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