Club Partenaires Amazon.fr - Obtenir des liens. The Telecom Exploits Of Iliad. Xavier Niel never imagined France would owe him such a debt of gratitude.
Back in 1999, when he launched a free Internet service appropriately named Free.fr, his goal was only to challenge rivals such as AOL and Wanadoo in Net access. Six years later, Free, a unit of Iliad Group, has carved a wide swath through France's telecom landscape, spurring regulators to open the market faster to competition and prodding the former state-owned monopoly, France Telecom (), to respond with aggressive price cuts and new services. "Free brought competition to the French market," says Roland Montagne, head of broadband research for telecom watcher IDATE in Montpellier. And how. Monsters in the Market - Magazine. In today’s exchanges, strong programs prey on weak ones, humans are hard to find, and the SEC struggles to keep up.
On the third floor of Citigroup’s Manhattan headquarters, at the far end of a trading floor overlooking the Hudson River, Young Kang, Citi’s global head of algorithmic products, leans over a terminal and monitors the progress of a canny and powerful beast named Dagger. Bred and trained in secret by Citi’s financial engineers, Dagger can stalk through more than 20 markets, public and otherwise—hunting for anomalies, buying and selling, prowling through mountains of historical data—all at the behest of Citi’s clients.