http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?articleID=2009204&HideRelated=1&SearchResult=1 The Online Finance 40 By Jeffrey Kutler 要点翻译： 这是该杂志第九届年度评选 IB的CEO汤姆斯去年排名30，今年前进到第25名 IB700多雇员中的一半是技术人员 IB连接了83个交易所 基本上，IB像个软件商 Reeling from more than a year of market turmoil, the financial industry is in cutback mode — but not when it comes to technology. With virtual unanimity the leading financial technology innovators on Institutional Investor’s ninth annual Online Finance 40 list say that their initiatives and investments are too critical to put on hold. Many have revenues, profits and double-digit growth to show for, and justify, their efforts. These are, in many ways, technology businesses. Paul Galant (No. 9), CEO of Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services, calls his unit “a technology company with a banking license”; it earned $1.4 billion on $4.7 billion in revenue in the first half of 2008. Interactive Brokers Group, up 48 percent, to $923.8 million, in first-half net revenues, is “basically a software shop,” says chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy (No. 25). Archrival exchange operators OMX Group and NYSE Euro­next are in direct technology combat. Nasdaq OMX increased market technology revenues 22 percent in the first half, to $69.8 million, and CEO Robert Greifeld (No. 1) is pushing technology aggressively as ever-growing volumes pose “a fundamental challenge to the exchanges.” Lawrence Leibowitz (No. 2), head of U.S. markets and global technology at NYSE Euro­next, which nearly doubled first-half software and technology services revenue, to $226 million, agrees that “exchanges need to be in the technology business.” The online stars are remarkably upbeat. Seth Merrin (No. 7), CEO of Liquidnet Holdings, is taking his company public. Robert Huret (No. 27), a founding partner of FTVentures, recalling previous downturns, is convinced that the current one “won’t be that bad.” Tech sales can even rise because “it’s a good time to get your house in order,” says Karen Maguire (No. 36), CEO of Satuit Technologies. 25. Thomas Peterffy Chairman and CEO Interactive Brokers Group Last year’s rank: 30 From the time he started work as an American Stock Exchange options market maker in 1977, Thomas Peterffy, trained as a computer programmer, has regarded it as inevitable that securities markets would go all-electronic — and wondered why it was taking so long. “We’re still only halfway there,” he says. “Half the people are still trading by telephone.” Peterffy followed his ahead-of-the-times instincts and founded Interactive Brokers Group (originally Timber Hill Group) in 1982. Today half the Greenwich, Connecticut–based e-brokerage’s 700-plus employees work on the technology that gives investors low-cost access to securities, foreign exchange and commodities markets in multiple languages and currencies through a single account. “We are basically a software shop,” says Peterffy, 64. “To be successful at anything, you have to love it, and we love software.” Interactive Brokers, which raised $1.2 billion in a May 2007 IPO, increased its second-quarter net revenues 34 percent, to $395 million, and earnings per share 57 percent, to 44 cents. “We are connected to 83 exchanges and will have several more by year-end,” boasts Peterffy, whose engineers are now rolling out an institutional order management system for automated staging and execution of all products and order types, even by traders in remote locations.