The back story is this: For years, these firms were known as proprietary trading groups, or prop shops.
Dresdner's investment bank will not be the only one to slim down riskier activities such as proprietary trading.
Trade secrets also protects software source code and sometimes other aspects of software, such as proprietary limited-distribution documentation.
Traditionally contractors working on well construction and drilling have kept their data separately, and regarded the data as proprietary.
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Pricing deposit insurance differently or banning activities such as proprietary trading would give shareholders and employees alike an incentive to rein in risk-taking.
The rule would restrict banks from trading with their own capital, known as proprietary trading, and investing in hedge funds and private equity.
Expertise that is developed within a firm is guarded as proprietary.
Like every other law governing fluid disclosure, the Texas law contains a provision that allows contractors to protect chemical ingredients or compounds that qualify as proprietary information.
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And increasingly, payers who have viewed claims data as proprietary, are willing to let go of clauses that bar their customers from sharing them with a third party.
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One part of the new law, the Volcker rule, was designed to limit risk-taking in particular, trading by banks for their own profit rather than for customers, known as proprietary trading.
Instead, we have seen a string of reports that focus on the aspect of the law that allows hydraulic fracturing contractors to claim certain elements of their fluids as proprietary.
My co-workers did not seem to mind using this information, because so many had spent significant time at these different firms that to them it was public knowledge and not viewed as proprietary information.
Don't be surprised if the administration pushes for the controversy over commercial banks' handling of derivatives trading to be addressed by the so-called "Volcker Rule, " which would prohibit commercial banks from making speculative bets for their own account--known as proprietary trading--as opposed to the benefit of their customers.
It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.
Other market participants, such as the proprietary trading desks of banks, may withdraw, further thinning the ranks of the competition.
That is not a compliment, as AOL, which began as a proprietary online service, started its long decline at about that time, after missing the impact of the new, open environment of the world wide web.
Saying things without providing references to evidence is a hallmark of the denialist argument, even as they demand climate scientists make available for scrutiny every change to every draft of every paper they ever touch, as well as the proprietary source code of computer programs they create to analyze their data.
Cloud providers benefit from keeping things proprietary as long as possible, because it locks consumers into their environment.
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The unit reads PDF files as well as Sony's proprietary (anyone surprised?) BBeB format (stands for Broadband Electronic Books).
Early commentary also distinguishes this case from those involving larger institutions that cannot engage in proprietary trading as a result of Dodd-Frank.
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Post spin off, Abbott Labs is now left with generic drugs as research-based proprietary drugs like Humira have been retained by AbbVie.
But Dell's risk is that the march grinds to a halt as it approaches the proprietary bastions of storage, mainframe computers, switches and networking equipment.
For example, some companies might decide to charge lower fees on their proprietary funds as a means of building market share and keeping more money in-house.
But Dell's risk is that the march will grind to a halt as it approaches the proprietary bastions of storage, mainframe computers, switches and networking equipment.
In applied big data, which he defines as the aggregation of proprietary data and use in applications, Sands cites DemandBase, Intacct and Guardian Analytics.
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Developed for a convenient user experience, the new players provide an array of convenience offerings that greatly reduce power on, disc load and power off times as a result of proprietary software and hardware solutions.
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Revenue at the equities division of the investment bank tumbled by half in the first quarter, compared with the same period in 2007, but much of the fall can be put down to reduced levels of proprietary trading as the bank pegged back its trading limits.
Audio and video programmes based on proprietary formats such as Windows Media Player are another challenge.
It utilizes both proprietary hardware such as the HDX and readily available platforms such as iPads.
At AbbVie, the business is largely focused on proprietary pharmaceuticals such as Humira, which is expected to lose patent protection in 2016.
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