When one of many first web bubbles introduced forth the Nineteen Nineties’ dot-com period, Stuart Taylor, now Mitsubishi UFJ Monetary Group’s head of e-trading, was prepared to depart his gross sales job at Merrill Lynch for a shot at entrepreneurship.

His first foray into a web site devoted to marriage ceremony lists proved a “shaky” endeavour, with brides and grooms who had been on-line however grandparents who weren’t. Leaving marriage ceremony bells behind, Taylor started engaged on Merrill’s rising e-trading technique as a substitute.