Brad Katsuyama Quotes

Canada, Executive Director
1978

Bradley 'Brad' Katsuyama is a Canadian financial services executive. He is working as the CEO and co-founder of the IEX, the Investors Exchange. He left RBC in 2012 to co-found IEX under the premise that it would be a fairer stock trading venue than other exchanges. Through his work with IEX, Katsuyama is the focus of Flash Boys, a 2014 non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about high-frequency trading (HFT) in the financial markets.

When we had the 'flash crash' in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.

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Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

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We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.

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Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

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The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.

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