This is why the report published on March 5th by the Lib-Lab joint consultative committee on constitutional reform, jointly chaired by Mr Cook and Bob Maclennan for the Lib Dems, is so important.

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Coming from the UK and several other European countries, they are participants in the 2013 FinTech Innovation Lab London, a joint venture by Accenture, leading banks and venture capital firms with support from the Mayor of London, the City of London Corporation and the Technology Strategy Board.

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The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on behalf of Idaho National Lab, which is run by the Department of Energy but has joint programs with a number of government agencies.

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The project is a joint research initiative of nine partners including Atos, Athens Information Technology, IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Imperial College London, City of Santander, and PRISA Digital and Telesto.

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