Phil Albinus Named Editor of Advanced Trading

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Albinus has covered financial services for over nine years and will lead Advanced Trading's editorial mission across all of the property's products. Advanced Trading is part of InformationWeek's Financial Services Group. Through its various products, including digital media, live and virtual events, online and print, Advanced Trading focuses on the newest strategies and technologies that are powering automated trading strategies.

"We're pleased to have Phil join the Advanced Trading team," says Greg MacSweeney, editorial director for InformationWeek Financial Services. "He is well known and respected throughout the industry. His reputation, coupled with Phil's solid reporting experience, will allow him to have an immediate impact on Advanced Trading's focus and direction as we gear up for 2011 and beyond."

Most recently, Albinus was Editor of Waters at Incisive Media where he oversaw all print and online content, events and webcasts.  

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Advanced Trading, a multimedia outlet with digital media, online, print and live and virtual events that is part of the InformationWeek Financial Services Group, helps traders and technologists navigate the dynamic trading landscape. Through its coverage of algorithmic trading, exchanges, electronic marketplaces, transaction cost analysis, trading regulations, market data, trading tools and infrastructure, Advanced Trading has garnered a loyal following. Advanced Trading reaches the most senior and influential trading and business executives, including C-level executives, business line management, and IT executives from exchanges, buy-side, and sell-side firms. Advanced Trading's editorial mission is to arm financial-services executives with the critical information they need to succeed in the quickly changing world of trading. When it comes to the world of electronic trading there's no media brand that covers it as intelligently as Advanced Trading.

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