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Mystery Surrounds Recent Reports That Premier Foods Has Sold £100M Worth of Its Debt
Jun 25, 2013Mystery surrounds recent reports that Premier Foods has sold £100M worth of its debt to US private equity house Apollo Global Management. Premier Foods brands include Hovis, Mr Kipling and Ambrosia The story originated from US ...
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VoltDB Has Outfitted Its Namesake in-Memory Database Management System
Jan 24, 2013Responding to a growing user base of online service providers, VoltDB has outfitted its namesake in-memory database management system with additional tools to communicate with other technologies usually found in a Web applications stack. ...
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Banks and Investors Joined Forces with Accenture to Open Laboratory in London
Dec 31, 2012Banks and investors have joined forces with outsourcing giant Accenture to open a laboratory in London to develop technology for the financial services sector. The FinTech Innovation Lab,as it is known,will attempt to find technology ...
Tags: finance technology lab
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Finance Firms Are Increasingly Looking to Decades-Old Microwave Technologies
Dec 10, 2012IDG News Service-In the world of high-frequency trading,where being ahead of the competition by a few milliseconds can mean profits worth millions of dollars,finance firms are increasingly looking to decades-old microwave technologies for a ...
Tags: Microwave vies, high-frequency trading, fiber, microwave technologies
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Three Finance Firms Transformed Board Meetings Through The Use of Apple IPads
Dec 4, 2012Deutsche Börse,Standard Life and Resolution are three finance firms that have transformed board meetings through the use of Apple iPads. Using software from Diligent,the companies have replaced hundreds of pages of documents in lever ...
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In 2008,Nationwide Set out on a Journey to Replace Ageing IT Systems
Nov 28, 2012Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
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Global Fraud Gang Operation High Roller
Nov 14, 2012Global fraud gang Operation High Roller – which targeted European finance firms earlier this year – has spread in the last three months to countries including the US, according to McAfee's latest threat report. Operation High ...
Tags: Operation High Roller, finance firms, McAfee, Guardian Analytics
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One Such Company Is Insurance Broker Quote Me Today
Jul 12, 2012When the Financial Services Authority(FSA)introduces new rules,companies under its jurisdiction often have to invest in IT to enable them to adhere to the new guidelines. Because data is so important in finance companies,regulations ...
Tags: cloud-based, software, IT, guideline