Founder of Interactive Brokers / 06
Thomas Peterffy: The Programmer Who Rebuilt the Trading Desk
Instead of trying to outshout the trading floor, he built machines that could calculate, quote, and process transactions faster.
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Self-taught Banking
Money, markets and finance careers built from the ground floor.
Banking Stories
The Cheat Code to their successBrokerage founder and first woman to hold an NYSE seat / 07
Muriel Siebert: The Researcher Who Bought Her Way Past Wall Street's Gate
When experience failed to produce equal treatment, she stopped asking for a better seat at someone else's firm and bought an exchange membership.
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Investor and private lender / 08
Hetty Green: The Patient Capital Behind an Unfair Nickname
She inherited substantial wealth. Her financial achievement was protecting and multiplying it in a world that distrusted women with money.
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Investor associated with Tavistock Group / 09
Joe Lewis: From Catering Cash Flow to Global Investing—and a Conviction
Operating businesses supplied his starting capital. Currency markets expanded it. A later criminal case exposed a boundary wealth could not erase.
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Founder of CMC Markets / 10
Peter Cruddas: The Telex Operator Who Built a Trading Platform
He entered the City through its communications machinery, learned the dealing room from the inside, and founded a business around a changing interface.
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