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An automated trading firm turns its machine learning expertise to venture capital investing

An automated trading firm turns its machine learning expertise to venture capital investing

XTX Markets doesn’t have any human traders. XTX is well known in the financial industry as an automated trading firm—it buys and sells some $250 billion of assets, from foreign-exchange to stocks and US Treasuries, each day. It’s the only company in the top ranks of currency trading that isn’t a global investment bank, according to annual polls of institutional investors by Euromoney.