Testing Grounds The latest industry being outsourced to India is clinical drug trials. And any number of tragic things can happen on the way to your medicine cabinet.
Friday Night Rewind It doesn't matter which team you cheer for. We've got video previews of every high school football program in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando County.
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., the huge securities clearinghouse with a key hub in Tampa, has inked a $965-million deal to buy a counterpart in the United Kingdom.
By combining with U.K.'s LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd., DTCC will become a major trans-Atlantic clearinghouse for stocks, bonds and derivatives.
DTCC, which runs a 450-employee securities processing facility in New Tampa, clears billions of dollars daily in Wall Street and government securities transactions.
LCH.Clearnet brings experience in clearing derivatives such as interest-rate swaps.
Jeff Harrington can be reached at jharrington@sptimes.com or (727) 893-8242.
[Last modified: Oct 23, 2008 12:48 PM]
Subscribe to the Times
Click here for daily delivery
of the St. Petersburg Times.
News
