Corzine planned to change the Firm into a global investment bank that generated substantial revenues from proprietary trading activities.
Banks maintain large inventories of the securities ostensibly to facilitate trading, but these inventories in fact include substantial quantities of proprietary investments hidden within market-maker inventories.
I learned the wonderfully proprietary and substantial feeling of owning a house, a rock to anchor my life.
Service providers like Axiom and UnitedLex (ULX) have amassed substantial war chests for research and development, proprietary and best-in-class tools, process improvements, and global footprints.
One company, Hi-Mar Specialties, declined to provide additional information about its defoaming agent Hi-Mar DFC-503, saying that the information was "proprietary" and disclosure "would cause substantial harm to Hi-Mar's business," according to Range's filing.
BYD made headlines in recent years with its announcement of forward-integration into designing and building electric vehicles, using its own proprietary battery design; it even attracted a substantial investment from Warren Buffett.
Where producing a product in a Chinese plastic extrusion plant used to require people on the ground brokering deals, proprietary information systems, and the ability to guarantee substantial volume, today it requires only Alibaba.com.
6. Microsoft's continued success depends in substantial part on its ability to maintain and protect the proprietary technology it creates through its investments in research and development.
The stock earns a value score of 86 (out of 100) in the proprietary Quadrix ranking system and trades at a substantial discount to the semiconductor group on most valuation ratios.
A company might opt for in-house drone operation and data analysis if it is concerned about proprietary issues or security, is willing to make a substantial up-front investment, and wants to take a "learn by doing" approach.
