Christopher Remondi, a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) a leading custodian, which participated in the DTCC pilot along with BNY Mellon, JPMorgan Chase and National Financial Services, wrote that the DTCC effort will transform U.S. corporate action processing.

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Conditional Actions that automatically select the appropriate Action based on user-defined rules, giving users enhanced image processing speed.

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And he attributes the Signal Processing mindset with contributing to better decision-making and more effective entrepreneurial action.

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And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.

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Fast Data is the continuous access and processing of events and data in real-time for the purposes of gaining instant awareness and instant action.

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