We've been trying to benchmark how good this is, and at the moment we think we're getting about 80% of known phishing sites - most of our competitors manage around 70%. That's because we've got a better source list than other people.
"We try to benchmark to that point," Streeter said.
Barclays — yes, the Barclays that agreed in June to pay $450 million to settle accusations that it tried to manipulate the benchmark London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
UBS said Tuesday that United States and Japanese regulators were investigating whether the Swiss bank had tried to manipulate a benchmark used to set interest rates around the world.
In testimony before a Senate panel, the second Congressional hearing this week to focus on Mr. Geithner, he promoted the government's efforts to punish banks that tried to manipulate a benchmark interest rate during the financial crisis.
Mr. Jenkins took over as chief executive from Robert E. Diamond Jr., who resigned in July after Barclays agreed to pay $450 million to settle charges that it had tried to manipulate a key benchmark, the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
As part of its investigation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said 133 traders at firms like Credit Suisse, Citigroup and ING tried to influence the local benchmark rate for their own financial gain over a five-year period starting in 2007.
TA: This year, in my keynote I tried to do an internal benchmark on the promises of insideAR 2011 and 2012 and as in any statistic you can't really claim that you have 100% adoption of the technology.
The Yankees won this year with a $112 million payroll, and while George Steinbrenner, the principal owner, has tried to avoid establishing salary benchmarks, he has never allowed that sort of modesty to prevent the front office from improving the team.
When the chipmakers finally noticed that people obsess about raw speed and ignore contradictory benchmarks, the companies tried to cheat with the numbers and attempted to sell the public on megahertz equivalents.
