The lockdown has forced traders to rework entire protocols, starting from working hours to workspaces The coronavirus pandemic has upended a 100-year-old order for stock market trading and broking.
As trading terminals have moved from dealing rooms to homes, brokers are completing transactions from their homes for the first time in over a century.
This has forced traders to rework entire protocols, starting from working hours to workspaces, security protocols to investor outreach, and storing information to meeting compliance requirements. “My entire work schedule has gone through a sea change," a trader working for a leading brokerage house said on condition of anonymity.