When University of Toronto computer engineering professor Michael Stumm decided to launch an online currency trading platform for individual investors in 2001, he had no idea of the regulatory obligations involved. Nor did he have any experience in dealing with the powerful international banks that dominate foreign exchange—forex—the world’s largest, fastest and most liquid market, with a daily global trading volume of about $4 trillion (U.S.). Stumm spent a modest $250,000 to have four of his former students help him write the software. Now, 12 years later, Oanda Corp.—the company he co-founded with a high school ... (full story)