In the past two months, Digital Realty has announced deals to lease space to BT Global Financial Services and Horizon Data Center Solutions.

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It analyzed the largest bank holding companies in terms of total assets according to the National Information Center, a repository of financial data and institution characteristics collected by the Federal Reserve System.

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We only assessed the 20 largest bank holding companies in terms of total assets, as of December 2012, according to the National Information Center, a repository of financial data and institution characteristics collected by the Federal Reserve System.

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In creating the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report, input was collected from a variety of application spaces (servers, data center networks, high-performance computing, financial markets, carrier and cable operators, Internet exchanges, the scientific community, etc.) and from different geographic regions.

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Equinix, a provider of global data center services which host hundreds of telecommunications connections and many financial exchanges including NASDAQ OMX, CBOE Stock Exchange and BATS Europe, is launching the Equinix Marketplace.

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The Equinix marketplace is somewhat similar to the aspirations of NYSE Technologies which launched its own community at its Mahwah, NJ data center and another in the UK. Equinix hosts many of the NYSE local connections, Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) in locations around the world.

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In compiling our list, we used data from the Center for Responsive Politics to determine which national politicians have received the most money from the financial industry so far during the 2009-'10 election cycle.

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