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High-speed trader XTX Markets to build vast data centre in Finland

Move by Alex Gerko’s market maker bucks trend among financial firms to outsource to Big Tech
XTX Markets employs more than 200 people but no human traders, and makes markets in stocks, bonds, crypto and other assets

UK high-speed trader XTX Markets is building a vast data centre in Finland to handle the information for the $250bn worth of deals that it makes every day, bucking the trend among financial services groups to offload IT to Silicon Valley’s biggest technology groups.

The London-based market maker, which uses complex algorithms to buy and sell, is building a site with a 250 megawatt capacity in the Kajaani district in central Finland. The first building will manage computing power of 22.5MW, according to figures seen by the Financial Times.

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