Twenty or thirty years ago, we spent most of our time managing transactions using big, complicated systems.

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Isis probably realized all of the headaches involved with managing financial transactions and getting terminals installed in stores, said Woo, from MasterCard.

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Other e-tailers cite the high cost - some five to 10 times higher than in the U.S. - of leasing Net connections and maintaining "server" computers for managing online transactions.

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For example, using the zEnterprise System with the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, a financial services company managing credit card transactions on the mainframe using an IBM blade optimized for analytics can gain insights from the information in seconds.

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What database is the back end of Ameritrade, managing 12 Billion trading transactions each day?

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Private equity investors will soon get word about recent mark-downs to their holdings, losses that probably won't reflect the 60 cents on the dollar bids--which are, on average, the high bids--now seen in the secondary market, says Colin McGrady, managing director of Cogent Partners, which advises on secondary transactions.

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Paul McKenzie is Managing Partner of the office, whose practice focuses on a broad range of corporate transactions and regulatory compliance matters.

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"The civil penalty action against China Aviation Oil Holding Company is a signal to the market that we expect all entities undertaking transactions in this jurisdiction to fully comply with Singapore law, " said monetary authority deputy managing director Shane Tregillis.

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