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Has competition been good or bad for Australia's securities market. |
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Asia Etrader, January 2012 |
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Market spy tackles health fraud |
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Business IT - Technology for your business
IT Wire, 22 December 2011
Technology first conceived to keep watch over the world's financial markets and spot rogue activity has been tweaked for the health sector – and is now being rolled out to make sure that health insurance claims and hospital funding requests are the real McCoy. Such systems could potentially save what's euphemistically referred to as "leakage" - or fraud and error - running to hundreds of millions of dollars each year in Australia.
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Insider Trading, Hounded by the Watchdog |
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In_TheBlack.pdf
In The Black, December 2011 |
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High-Frequency Trading: Want the good news or the bad? |
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With the entry of the Chi-X trading platform to rival the Australian Securities Exchange, the technological equivalent of an arms race is underway as high-speed, high-volume algorithmic transactions enable the fastest trader to jump on a trend and profit from price changes. High-frequency trading (HFT) has regulators on red alert, while some investors call it parasitic, many like to blame it for the wild volatility that caused the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash". Market surveillance expert Mike Aitken, a professor at the Australian School of Business, says there's good news and bad news about HFT and an overwhelming lack of evidence. He urges regulators not to rely on hearsay.
Link to article
Knowledge at ASB, 5th December 2011 |
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How will Chi-X effect the market? |
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