Federal prosecutors and securities regulators have brought dozens of insider-trading cases involving hedge funds in recent years, often focusing on third-party serviceproviders engaged in expert-networking services.
To process the payments, businesses must rely on third-party merchant serviceproviders (MSPs), which offer a dizzying array of rate structures that range from a flat rate to a percentage of the amount charged to the card.
As I argue elsewhere, an example of this is the manner in which legal departments control the tripartite relationship between client, law firm, and third-party legal service outsourcing providers.
Third-party providers install and maintain huge reserves of public cloud service capacity: so you can call on extra resources at peak times and release them when they are no longer needed.
"We have taken immediate action to indefinitely suspend their services in connection with RockYou and we are reviewing all third-party providers to ensure compliance with our platform partners' terms of service, " she said.