The way that Daniel Nehren sees it, all trading desktops will be web-based within five years, where they’ll be an assembly of external and internal applications, integrated to provide a “best-in-class” trading environment.

Nehren, head of statistical modeling and development for equities at Barclays, says that historically, the trading desktop has been separated into two pieces: the high-performance trading platform, and the analytics applications built around that. Disjointed and siloed, the