Citi: the bank of 10,000 technologists

The bank's Tel Aviv-based fintech Accelerator programme has seen over 70 start-ups attract more than $300 million in VC money

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Paco Ybarra: “What we have to ask every time is this: can this be done by a computer. And if the answer is no, we still have to ask: can a computer enhance the activity?”

Innovation is in large part down to asking the question what if? This is presumably what led David O’Byrne, global head of Citi Velocity Trading, to stand in the middle of a room and jab repeatedly at the air while saying “crude, March” in a commanding voice.

On a rainy November morning, O’Byrne is demonstrating a hololens product, which allows the user to create a virtual desktop and trade from it on the bank’s single-dealer platform Velocity by using a futuristic headset, which resembles

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