Algorithmic Trading has already become mainstream in equities, with experts predicting that we are approaching a point when more than half of the trades struck on the London Exchange will be instigated by algorithms. Other asset classes are also beginning to see the benefits algorithmic trading can offer in terms of increased profitability, improved execution and greater customer satisfaction. What began just a few years ago as a relatively low-cost experiment, now commands massive IT resources and highly skilled teams of experts, working closely together, to execute and deliver complex and highly integrated trading infrastructures.In this series of interviews, experts from some of the world’s leading financial services firms, will share how we arrived where we are today, the immediate challenges and opportunities and their vision of the future. The series will investigate not only some of the technologies that underpin the low-latency and high-speed computing and communications environments that are required but also investigate the business drivers, the spread of Algorithmic Trading to new regions of the world, like Asia, how risk is managed and what Algo Trading may mean for counterparties, customers, exchanges and regulators.Check back soon for the first episode, due for publication first week of November 2007.  If you would like to be informed as soon as each new interview is published, please send an e-mail to updateme@voicesinbusiness.com with the words “Subscribe Algo” in the subject line or main body of your e-mail message.We also welcome your comments and questions by e-mail and will put these to our expert guests to answer in their interviews.