This is a settlement of a data security breach class action lawsuit with 130M class members.

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He thinks the financial services industry should create the identifier at the time of origination rather than work with closing and settlement records and then relying on data vendors such as Bloomberg or Reuters to trace back the instruments.

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Visa earns data processing revenues from the authorization, clearing, settlement, transaction processing services and other maintenance and support services that facilitate transaction and information processing among customers globally and Visa Europe.

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The data indicated that there were 27 million times the number of settlement failures as there were shares outstanding at the time.

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Mr. Cuomo entered the fray in January when he presented a budget with an ultimatum: He gave the state union a month to settle its lawsuit over student testing data or he would use his budgetary powers to force a statewide settlement.

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Under the terms of that legal settlement, Comcast agreed it would not "unreasonably discriminate" against other companies transmitting data over its pipes, or treat its own content differently.

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Both the SEC and the exchanges use the data to determine whether a stock has high enough and persistent enough trade settlement failures to warrant including it on a list of similar securities for which special trading restrictions are supposed to kick in.

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New data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals trade settlement fails in early February 2005 that were 27 times greater than the total number of shares Global Links (other-otc: GLLC - news - people ) had issued at the time.

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