The federal government, on the other hand, will essentially perform all functions of exchange management except customer service and plan management.

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The support of this market is one of the key functions of the Utah Health Exchange.

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It would create a super-agency that rolls up the investor protection functions of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association, FINRA and Securities Investors Protection Corp.

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To start with, most of the new functions in Crossbow are meant to play nice with the 2007 release of Office and Exchange.

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The new Kindle Fire family features world-class Microsoft Exchange integration, with fine-tuned performance on many of the most critical e-mail functions.

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The London Stock Exchange, which also plans to shed its mutual status, has lost most of its regulatory functions, including, it was announced this week, the policing of listing requirements.

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