Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11 - 18 of 18 results for "HFT"

ASIC speeds up misconduct probe

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... Yanco added that taskforces have been established to consider issues relating to dark liquidity and high-frequency trading (HFT). "The work undertaken by these taskforces, as we foreshadowed in our last report, buttressed our surveillance and policy ...

Risk control software targets HFTs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Global trading platform provider InfoReach claims its new software can significantly reduce the risk of high frequency trading systems going haywire. The group says that recent multi-million dollar losses in the capital markets, such as the so-called ...

New rules for HFT trading

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... Superannuation. Announced yesterday, the new rules include the use of "kill switches" for computer-driven high frequency trading (HFT), and will straight away force the ASX and Chi X to limit the high-speed sale of securities. "I am aware that some investors ...

High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
The overwhelming majority of financial professionals say high frequency trading (HFT) is unfair, according to a new survey, but research from the UK government shows that computer automated investment has market benefits. According to a recent survey ...

ASIC calls for kill-switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
ASIC has called for brokers to have direct control over filters and automated controls to suspend HFT orders and/or systems in the wake of US trading firm Knight Capital's disaster earlier this month. "Recent events overseas are a reminder of the speed ...

HFT strategy profiling lab launched

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Australian firm First Derivatives has launched a testing lab for HFT strategies and algorithms. Developed to allow firms to test their high frequency trading (HFT) algorithms and methods prior to live market release, the lab also has potential implications ...

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... the same mistakes as others have, but that they need an ease in focus. "I think ASIC may be worrying a bit too much about HFT, particularly given the challenges around defining what it really is," Grob said. "When you start playing around with market ...

Govt $41m finance centre launches new projects

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... recent technological developments in financial markets globally on market integrity and efficiency. High frequency trading (HFT) is one of those issues," Frino told Financial Standard. According to Frino, HFT contributes 30 to 50% of trading activity ...
PAGE:
2