The phrase can have passive aggressive connotations, and can be caustically used to end transactions with abusive customers.
The committee must also review any year-end transaction with a third party "where Merrill Lynch knows or believes that the third party's primary motive is to achieve" accounting outcomes that would affect reported financial results.
One sells high-end transaction software for Informix's standard relational database, used mainly to slice and dice standard corporate financial information.
Unlike other online brokerages, Reali has invested in and created an end-to-end transaction and collaboration platform".
Now he is preaching a new gospel: Internet infrastructure, which supports providers of telecom software and services, back-end transaction software or consulting services that help companies get online.
That is not to say that these high-end transactions will shield Manhattan real estate from a slowdown in 2008.
Some investors were no doubt engaged in month-end transactions, while others remained on the sidelines awaiting today's report on the August labor market.
"Given the prominence of real estate in the past decade," said Lawrence J. White, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, "I am a little surprised we haven't seen more political pressure to tax high-end transactions".
Smaller clubs can cash in by developing youngsters and then trading them (though the odds of pulling off a superstar sale are always long), and Dubois pointed out that despite the big splash of the top-end transactions, the true foundation of the transfer system lies in the reality that most players are essentially owned by a club from a young age.
Business Process Testing is the act of validating that end-to-end transactions through enterprise systems continue to work correctly as the underlying packaged applications evolve.
So I see this decade as the decade where third-parties, telecoms operators, device manufacturers, tech start-ups and others start to take ownership of bank customers, and banks are simply left processing the back-end transactions and product manufacturing.
