In early January 2009, the newly hired head of Business, Strategy & Development, Cash Equities at Hudson Bay Bank (HBB) was analyzing how his group could increase revenues after the market meltdown of 2008. His analysis specifically focused on a business segment known as high-frequency trading, in some ways a controversial revenue stream, whereby traders take advantage of split-second price differences to earn a profit. Although U.S. firms had been using this technology for years, the Canadian landscape had only just become hospitable to the concept. This business segment could represent an attractive new source of revenue, but the financial services industry had seen dramatic changes since 2007, calling into question many of its foundational policies and procedures. Will high-frequency trading provide the innovation that HBB was seeking to grow revenues?