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...Eurex had a faster electronic system while CBOT, like Liffe, still relied on trading by humans in noisy pits....
...While most of the dealers have gone electronic, many of their customers such as asset managers and pension funds still rely on manual labour....
...The Dutch electronics and healthcare group was hit by several one-off charges, including a €366m legal bill from a court case where the conglomerate was successfully sued by US’s Masimo Corp....
...BATS Global Markets, the second-largest US stock exchange operator by volume, has named high-profile trading executive Chris Concannon from Virtu Financial, the electronic market maker, as its new president...
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Ms Fontan points to the example of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which tried to crack European equities clearing, as regulation demanded competition in equities trading....
...The value of securities settled by the US’s Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation alone in 2011 was $1,700tn....
...Samsung is bringing its “learnings about how consumers search, share and navigate content on mobile devices” into its new TVs, said Tim Baxter, president of Samsung Electronics America....
...As much a metaphor for bloated, consumerist America as it is a very good tale....
...The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade group, has warned that Europe and the US could lose derivatives business to Asia while they delay finalisation of new rules governing...
...Mr Bürkner says: “It’s not easy for emerging market companies when they come to Europe or North America or Japan....
...In 1939, he backed two star pupils, William Hewlett and David Packard, to start an electronics firm....
...US in Philips ’ global league table of consumer sales....
...Andrew Bowley, head of electronic trading product management at Nomura, estimated that his bank is paying 10 per cent too much margin at the CCPs it uses....
...The need for an electronic record is as great as ever....
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...(It also always reminds me of the great line from the comedian Emo Philips: “The president said children are our most precious natural resource. Let’s hope it never comes to that.”)...
...Jana’s last significant foray into European corporate activism was in 2007, when the company, together with hedge fund giant DE Shaw, took a 1.6 per cent stake in Philips, the electronics company....
...at companies like US-based E-Ink Corporation and Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics....
...Last, collaborate or partner with growth companies – such as Royal Philips Electronics, which formed a joint venture with Neusoft to gain accelerated market access and technical and manufacturing capabilities...
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Along the way it lost its distinctive V-tail and picked up a conventional tail. But it is still fast....
...Silver Lake is part-owner of SunGard, the software group that was among the first technology companies to go private in this dealmaking cycle, and NXP, the former chip unit of Philips Electronics....
...The “big five” plasma display panel (PDP) manufacturers – Pioneer, Panasonic, Samsung, Hitachi/Fujitsu and LG/Philips – are likely to show 50-inch and bigger 1080p plasma displays....
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