Stateside, two companies are vying for the license to provide aggregation service to the U.S. market, said Kempton.

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This system offers pre-trade order validation and risk aggregation as well as checking for fat finger mistakes and market limits, among other things.

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Next, the arrival of mass-market digital publishing tools unleashed a torrent of content and a new form of aggregation dubbed curation.

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