Blancco’s Eastern Europe Expansion Addresses Growing Demand for Data Erasure and IT Asset Management

October 20th, 2009 JOENSUU, Finland - - New Release Addresses Data Erasure Needs for Growing Netbook Market and Green Data Centre Requirements Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced support of solid state drive (SSD) erasure within its family of certified data erasure products. The newly released software positions Blancco to address current and future data security and disk wipe requirements for the increasingly popular hardware category.

October 5th, 2009 ROLLE, Switzerland - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) announced today the expansion of its European oilseed processing capabilities with the acquisition of ViaChem Group's oilseed processing assets in Olomouc, Czech Republic. This facility, in the Eastern part of the Czech Republic, consists of an oilseed crushing, refining and biodiesel plant that produces oil and meal for the food, feed and energy markets.

September 20th, 2009 JOENSUU, Finland - - Disk Wipe Software First in its Category Slated for Evaluation Assurance Level 3+ Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced that its certified data erasure products are on track to earn Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 3+, augmented with ALC_FLR.3. This certification assures customers that the products have gone through a rigorous analysis and testing process and conform to standards sanctioned by the International Standards Organization.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Australia's number one online accommodation provider recently opened Poland and Slovakia as new destinations on its popular website. And the take up by the Australian users has been staggering, especially when you consider that at this stage they have less than 50 hotels in the major cities between them.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - The mobile communications markets in Eastern Europe are growing strongly from usage and revenues points of view. Defining these markets as emerging may no longer be accurate as they are demonstrating high growth and looking for new opportunities.

June 23rd, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - - South African Investment Manager to migrate back office processes to hosted offering Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, has been selected by Prescient to deliver its integrated investment management suite via its application service provider (ASP), Eagle ACCESS(SM). Prescient, with R60 billion under management in South Africa, selected the Eagle suite to streamline its growing local and global operations.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The World Finance 2009 ESG Awards have been announced. The winners were: Best ESG Research House, Germany WestLB AG Best ESG Institutional Asset Manager, Netherlands Syntrus Achmea Asset Management Best ESG Asset Manager, France Groupama Asset Management Best ESG Wealth Manager, Netherlands ABN AMRO Best ESG Asset Manager, Italy Eurizon Capital SGR Best ESG Asset Manager, Sweden SEB Wealth Management Best ESG Asset Manager, Brazil Itaú Unibanco Banco Múltiplo SA Best ESG Research House, France Novethic Best ESG Microfinance Consultant, International Perfect Point Partners Best ESG Asset Manager, USA ClearBridge Advisors Best ESG Asset Manager, UK Threadneedle Investment Best ESG Institutional Asset Manager, Switzerland SAM Sustainable Asset Management Best ESG Institutional Asset Manager, Norway DnB NOR Asset Management Best ESG Research House, UK EIRIS Best ESG Research House, USA IW Financial Best ESG Asset Manager, Belgium Dexia Asset Management Best ESG Wealth Manager, Switzerland Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch Group Best ESG Asset Manager, Spain BBVA Asset Management Best ESG Asset Manager, Denmark Nykredit Asset Management A/S About the Awards The World Finance awards panel, headed up by editor Alexander Redcliffe, used a wide range of criteria, and the critical eye of a collective 180 years of financial journalism to inform its decision over the most pertinent categories to include in the 2009 awards, and to establish criteria for voters to consider, such as innovation, originality and quality of product, as well as proof of market development and excellence in client representation.

April 20th, 2009 ATLANTA - Secure Erase Firmware-Based Command Combined With Software Overwriting and Reporting Capabilities Safely Sanitize ATA and SCSI Drives Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced support for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines for firmware-based erasure of ATA and SCSI drives. With its new and enhanced client erasure software, Blancco takes the NIST-recommended guidelines a step further by uniting them with a software overwriting option that verifies complete erasure - a level of support not found in other data erasure products.

April 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Reforms, Demand for Commodities Help Build Financial Cushion Brazil's reforms over the past decade have helped position the country to weather the global economic crisis, and several factors suggest that the equity markets are providing opportunities for value investors, according to BNY Mellon ARX, the BNY Mellon Asset Management unit focused on Brazil. "The benefits of the Real Plan of the 1990s, the commodity boom, and the growing buying power of the expanding middle class have all contributed to strengthening the country's economy," said Jose Alberto Tovar, managing director of BNY Mellon ARX.

March 22nd, 2009 JOENSUU, Finland - Blancco Ltd., the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, has launched a tailored data erasure solution for SPARC servers and workstations. High end SPARC servers are typically used by data centres and organisations with mass data needs using the SPARC architecture offered by companies such as Sun Microsystems.

November 6th, 2009 Brookfield Asset Management sets 13-cent dividendNEW YORK — Brookfield Asset Management on Friday said its board declared a dividend of 13 cents. The Toronto-based investment company said the dividend is payable Feb.

September 25th, 2009 CHENNAI - City-based Cholamandalam DBS Finance, a non-banking finance company, has decided sell its mutual fund subsidiary Cholamandalam Asset Management to L&T Finance for Rs.45 crore. "We have been taking several initiatives to strengthen the company's core business.

November 9th, 2009 Asset manager AMG enters Chinese marketBOSTON — Diversified asset management company Affiliated Managers Group Inc. said Monday it has acquired a 5 percent share in Chinese asset manager Value Partners Group Ltd.

September 30th, 2009 JPMorgan shuffles investment banking managementNEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase is shuffling the management duties of its investment bank and asset management units. The New York-based bank holding company says Steve Black will become executive chairman of the investment bank business.

November 2nd, 2009 Bank of New York unit buys stake in Siguler GuffNEW YORK — BNY Mellon Asset Management on Monday said it bought a 20 percent stake in private equity firm Siguler Guff & Co. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

November 3rd, 2009 LONDON - The world is at the risk of running out of web addresses in the next two years if business and government organizations do not switch to another level of naming protocol, web experts have warned. A European Commission survey found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6.

August 10th, 2009 Short Web address market shrinks: tr.im trimmedSAN FRANCISCO —The market for shrinking Web addresses is itself shrinking. The Web-address shortening service tr.im is shutting down after about a year in operation.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Progressive Infotech, a leading independent provider of ICT Infrastructure Services, opened a new international subsidiary in Singapore. In 2008, Progressive had set up a subsidiary in Dubai to expand its presence in the Middle Eastern market.

September 29th, 2009 TORONTO - The Royal Bank of Canada, which is the country's top bank, Tuesday acquired J.P. Morgan's Investment Advisor Servicing Business.

August 14th, 2009 Alliance Data issues asset-backed securitiesDALLAS — Marketing and transactions services provider Alliance Data Systems Corp. said Friday that its private label credit card banking subsidiary issued $950 million of fixed-rate term asset-backed securities.