AUSTRALIAN Securities & Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft has urged investors and investment houses to exercise more care in dealing with complex financial products, highlighting the growth of self-managed super funds as the ...
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Assurant, and subsidiaries American Security Insurance Company (ASIC) and American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida (ABIC), have reached an agreement with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) over lender-placed ...
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A "virtual lab" emulation environment can meet the challenges of complex SoC design verification, writes Richard Pugh of Mentor Graphics If you are verifying an SoC, you generally have three options when logic simulation runs out of steam ...
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19–21 March), California-based Reflex Photonics, which provides high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has expanded its optical infrastructure portfolio with five new transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), enabling it to now serve both the ...
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Australian Securities & Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft has declared dark and high-frequency trading "the new normal" of financial markets after two inquiries found no evidence of systemic abuse of the practices. ASIC ...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has proposed a range of rules to contain the growth of "off-market" and high-frequency trading (HFT), saying that it had uncovered some breaches of current law but no widespread or ...
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Listed companies have been warned to upgrade their disclosure practices in light of new rules from the Australian Securities Exchange or risk enforcement action from the corporate regulator. The Australian Securities & Investment ...
The corporate regulator must not employ a one-size-fits-all approach to dark trading to ensure it stamps out harmful levels of activity in so-called "dark pools" without removing some of the benefits of trading away from exchanges, ...
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Treasury has been warned against plans to impose a higher "message tax" on high frequency traders because it will reduce liquidity and increase volatility in the sharemarket. Capital Markets Co-operative Research Centre chief Mike Aitken ...
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Toshiba is offering Structured Arrays licensed from BaySand. They provide, says Toshiba ‘an ASIC alternative to FPGA with lower cost and power consumption - but still at significantly lower implementation and sample/production ...
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The market regulator is considering action against five high-frequency traders and one dark-pool operator as its taskforce continues to consider new rules for those practices. Staff from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ...
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CardioNet has signed a multi-year agreement with IMEC and its Dutch affiliate Holst Center to develop new cardiac monitoring devices. The partnership, over the next 18 months, will leverage CardioNet's proprietary algorithms and back-end ...
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Achronix, the high performance FPGA specialist, is sampling customers with products made on Intel’s 22nm finfet process. "We’re sampling several customers," Achronix CEO Robert Blake, told EW. That’s between 10 to 50 ...
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Toyota has announced the recall of more than one million cars in the US as part of a global recall of almost 1.3 million vehicles, in what is the Japanese manufacturer’s third million-car-plus recall since October. The recall of ...
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