Selerity Leverages CFN Services' Alpha Platform Expanding its Low-latency Event Data Distribution Network to Global Trading Venues

Herndon, VA (PRWEB) October 10, 2011

CFN Services, Inc., the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, announced today that Selerity, a provider of real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry has selected CFN Services Alpha Platform to extend low-latency access to its event data worldwide. Electronic traders can now access Seleritys low-latency event data locally without the use of long-distance telecommunications infrastructure in all major global financial centers.

CFNs Alpha Platform significantly decreases the time and costs associated with prospective clients evaluating Seleritys event data in real-time that do not have infrastructure in Seleritys current datacenters located in Chicago, New Jersey, or Frankfurt. The combination of CFNs global market data solutions and co-located access to Seleritys market-moving event data creates an industry-leading, integrated event-based trading solution.

Real-time event data is a critical component in many of todays multi-factor trading and risk-management strategies. The ability to gain access to various market-moving events in real-time to incorporate into their global investment strategies can offer trading firms a distinct competitive advantage. Because many of Seleritys event data sets are locally produced and distributed, trading firms can benefit from obtaining Selerity data close to specific trading venues with the lowest latencies possible.

With Seleritys existing physical presence in Chicago, New Jersey and Frankfurt, the Alpha Platform will expand our reach to a broader global audience, said Ryan Terpstra, founder and CEO of Selerity. Integration with CFNs Alpha Platform provides optimized low-latency connectivity to all the major financial datacenters around the globe including Toronto, London, Tokyo, Brazil and additional NY/NJ metro area trading venues.

CFNs Alpha Alliance consists of leading-edge technology and trading ecosystem providers such as Selerity that have set a standard of excellence through the seamless integration of third-party and proprietary trading technologies, applications and services worldwide. CFN Services Alpha Platform is a global, high-performance trading platform for automated trading. With a flexible and customizable platform, it seamlessly integrates the delivery of low-latency market data with best-of-breed trading applications all proximity-hosted within liquidity venues, to accelerate trading performance.

Selerity customers can now take advantage of CFN Services global footprint, high-performance infrastructure and our commitment to delivering market-leading trading applications with best-of-breed providers, said Mark Casey, President CFN Services. Were pleased to partner with Selerity to bring the capabilities of this platform to a broader segment and deliver enhanced solutions that better serve todays competitive financial markets.

About Selerity

Selerity is a real-time financial information and media company that focuses on capturing and delivering breaking events using innovative technology. Using proprietary real-time search and in-house capital market experts, Selerity monitors authoritative, primary sources for events that impact the financial markets such as corporate earnings, economic reports, energy statistics, and credit rating changes. Selerity's information products deliver clients both machine-readable event data and actionable news in

real-time. Customers use Selerity's platform to make accelerated decisions by incorporating event data and news into their investment strategies.

http://www.seleritycorp.com

About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets

CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency Alpha Platform, a high performance global cloud that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets. For more information, please go to: http://www.cfnservices.com

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Global Renewable Chemicals Market to Reach US$76.8 Billion by 2017, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 10, 2011

Follow us on LinkedIn - The world is now moving ahead beyond opportunities presented by fossil fuels into a realm that is characterized by emerging renewable energy technologies. With fossil fuels causing irreparable damage to the fragile ecosystem, the transition towards renewable energies is presenting immense opportunities. A fundamental driver in the push to incorporate renewable chemicals is the industrys excessive dependence on crude oil. Rising energy resource depletion and advances in renewable technologies mean today's renewable sources play a much larger role and even a major decline in petrochemical prices will not subdue the impetus already generated. Use of renewable raw materials in production of chemicals, such as, plant based sources, enzymes, vegetable oils, fatty acids and microorganisms, is also attracting immense interest given its potential in reducing the chemical industrys much debated and resented impact on human health and environment. Most players in the market are primarily university spinouts and agricultural companies. The future impact of renewable chemicals on the traditional chemicals industry is forecast to be immense and this current scenario is forecast to change as traditional chemical giants eye the potential in this space with more than a passing interest. In other words, growing opportunities in the renewable chemicals space, will witness an influx of newer players, especially large conventional chemical companies.

The world market for renewable chemicals rebounded in 2010, following a temporary slide in growth in the year 2009, and is expected to witness a robust double-digit growth in the ensuing years. Concerns for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and efforts for reducing dependence on petroleum feedstock have helped the market post gains during the recession period. This is primarily because these factors represent ideologies for a sustainable future, the business case of which extends beyond the temporary weakness in economic climate. The industry has admirably withstood the slowdown in venture capital investment activity, patent activities, other funding and access to capital issues, declines in purchases of expensive renewable chemicals based products, and deferred investments in renewable chemicals manufacturing. Government support and intervention is expected to grow stronger in the upcoming years given the waxing urgency of replacing petroleum-based materials and the need to artificially support bio-based chemicals, which have long been cost disadvantaged, through government subsidies and incentives. Given the governments role in helping start-up renewable chemical companies achieve the first level of economies of scale, and cost competitiveness, opportunities are forecast to continue to emerge despite the prevailing economic situation, given most governments continued and dedicated role in stimulating investments through appropriate pilot plant programs.

Growth in the next few years is expected to be driven by continuous rise in oil/petroleum prices, need for environmentally friendly feedstocks, new technology development induced cost reduction of bio-based chemicals, toxic chemical restrictions (legislated, lobbied/debated, proposed & planned) and growing consumer awareness and acceptance, which remains critical to the final switch to green chemicals. Optimism prevailing over the industrys ability to develop new innovative green chemicals that enable easy substitution with lower transition costs is forecast to benefit the market. In addition, development of drop-in renewable chemicals as chemical intermediaries, which can be directly used in existing chemical formulations/products, is expected to fuel market revenues in the immediate short-term, while in the longer term, next-generation novel chemicals will emerge to drive growth.

On the flip side, although robust future in store for renewable chemicals is undeniable, the market still has to overcome several hurdles on the way to achieve accelerated growth and live up to the hype surrounding renewable products. And this is reflected by the fact that government expenditures on non-renewable subsidies is far greater that the current renewables subsidies. Although, current efforts taken by governments worldwide to decouple non-renewable resource usage from economic growth (GDP) acts as a direct driver for growth of renewable chemicals, the absolute decoupling is still a long way from fruition in most countries across the globe. For instance, in most countries worldwide, non-renewable resource use continues to increase with increasing GDP/capita. This is especially so in developing countries where current focus on environmental footprint, resource flow analysis, sustainability planning frameworks, leave a lot to be desired. This is largely because the challenges of economic development attain more significance than the threat of environmental degradation. Economic activity that hypothetically violates the laws of sustainability continues to be carried out in these countries. Lack of direct government support for renewable chemicals, misplaced subsidies, inadequate tax credits, tax incentives and loan grant programs to provide the much required yet elusive capital leaves a portion of the markets potential in the shadows.

The science of sustainability, and visions of a sustainable society, is still niche to replace the current economic system. In short, renewable chemicals have still not seen the expected and much awaited federal support, which punctures the overly optimistic hype surrounding the market. Against this backdrop, companies are modeling their business structure so as to reduce dependence on government subsidies. This is primarily because the longer-term sustainability of business operations cannot rely exclusively on politically sensitive government policies and the ultimate winners in the market will be products that are inherently cost-effective to produce and not artificially supported by capricious subsidies.

As stated by the new market research report, Europe and United States accounts for a major share of the global Renewable Chemicals market. In the coming years, developing countries such as Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Latin America are expected to take center stage in the global renewable chemicals market. Countries in these regions, which largely consume chemicals developed from petrochemical feedstock, are expected to offer immense opportunities for renewable chemicals. By end-use application, Renewable Chemicals in Transportation Applications is the largest contributor to worldwide market revenues. Food industry, currently, is showing significant interest in production of basic chemicals from renewable feedstock. Active companies in food industry are tying to convert the advantage they enjoy in terms of wider upstream access into food supply chain including renewable feedstock into an opportunity to manufacture basic chemicals. Global market for Renewable Chemicals in Food Safety Applications is expected to surge at a fastest CAGR of 13.4% over the analysis period.

Major players in the global marketplace include Archer Daniels Midland Company, BASF Group, Bioamber, Cargill Incorporated, NatureWorks LLC, Chevron Corporation, Codexis Inc, Dow Chemical Company, E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company, Genencor International Inc., Metabolix Inc, Novozymes A/S, and PureVision Technology Inc among others.

The research report titled Renewable Chemicals: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides market estimates and projections (US$ Millions) for major geographic markets including the United States, Europe, and Rest of World. End-use applications analyzed include Food Safety, Transportation, Health & Hygiene, and Others.

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Global Managed Print Solutions Offers Award-Winning Konica Minolta Products, Solutions and Services

Ramsey, NJ (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced that Global Managed Print Solutions, LLC. of Novi, Michigan has become an authorized dealer partner of Konica Minolta. Established in 1997 as a strategic partner of Global Office Solutions, Global Managed Print Solutions will offer Konica Minoltas complete line of award-winning office systems, digital presses, printers, as well as an extensive portfolio of document management and workflow solutions.

As the original managed print provider in the Metro Detroit area, Global Managed Print Solutions has over 20 years of proven experience assessing customer needs and recommending the most cost- and energy-efficient solutions available today. Helping businesses to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and realize year over year process improvements, managed print experts take the time to learn about an organizations unique workflow, printing quality and volume needs. They then conduct an assessment of the print devices and generate a detailed report illustrating current usage, costs and issues related to the current fleet of printers. This consultative approach provides the service levels required for our clients to lower their overall costs while recognizing service levels that exceed their expectations.

"Partnering with Konica Minolta to offer the company's market-leading and innovative products, solutions and services will further enhance our total solution offering to customers, said Roy Cole, Principal, Global Managed Print Solutions. "We are excited about our ability to provide our customers with the full suite of offerings from Konica Minolta, helping to keep us distinguished from among the competition."

"Working with Global Managed Print Solutions is an example of a strategic partnership that will expand our market reach, particularly in the area of managed print solutions," said Alan Nielsen, Executive Vice President, Dealer Sales and Administration, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "Global Managed Print Solutions shares the Konica Minolta vision and remains committed to delivering only the highest quality products and services to its customers."

Global Managed Print Solutions is located at 22759 Heslip Drive, Novi, Michigan. For more information, call 1.248.449.9100 or visit them online at http://www.globalmanagedprintsolutions.com.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the fourth consecutive year, Konica Minolta was recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys. BLI has named Konica Minolta 2011 Line of the Year award winner for the companys award-winning line of bizhub Color and Monochrome Multifunctional Products. For more information, please visit http://www.CountOnKonicaMinolta.com and follow Konica Minolta on Facebook (@Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A), YouTube (@KonicaMinoltaUS), and Twitter (@KonicaMinoltaUS).

Global Managed Print Solutions Contact

Roy G. Cole

Global Managed Print Solutions

+1 248.449.9100

rcole(at)globalmpsus(dot)com

Konica Minolta Contact

James Norberto

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.

+1 201.825.4000

PR(at)kmbs.konicaminolta(dot)us

Konica Minolta is a registered trademark of Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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Financial Services Firms Turn to BUMI and Global Relay for Comprehensive Data Backup, Recovery and Compliance

(PRWEB) October 17, 2011

BUMI (Backup My Info!), the premier provider of online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, today announced the addition of DH Frederick Securities, Inc. and The Family Wealth Consulting Group (FWCG) to its growing roster of financial services customers. In addition to online data backup and recovery provided by BUMI, these two California-based financial services firms are also utilizing Global Relay for email archiving offering an end-to-end solution to safeguard and ensure compliance of business-critical information.

Like many financial services organizations, DH Frederick Securities, Inc. and FWCG use Global Relay services in order to comply with FINRA regulations for the recordkeeping and supervision of electronic messaging. FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), which regulates all firms selling securities in the United States, requires its broker-dealers to archive all transactions and inbound, internal and outbound correspondence relating to their business.

Compliance is extremely important, and meeting FINRA requirements does not mean financial services firms data is protected from disaster or other unforeseen events that can cause systemic failure, said Jennifer Walzer, CEO of BUMI. What Global Relay does for email communications, BUMI does for an organizations data, providing a means to backup and restore all types of business-critical information, applications and systems. Financial services firms such as DH Frederick Securities and The Family Wealth Consulting Group are recognizing that while regulatory compliance is compulsory, data protection is essential.

DH Frederick Securities is a licensed broker-dealer that specializes in assisting clients with capital and consulting needs. It is leveraging BUMI to remotely back up all of its operational systems and applications, such as Microsoft Office files. The company also relies on Global Relay to archive all of its email correspondence, keeping them compliant with government regulations.

If you had a virus cause a crash or, in our case, being in California, an earthquake, and all your hardware was destroyed, what would you do? said Dolliver Frederick, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of DH Frederick Securities. For us, in just two phone calls one to Global Relay and the second to BUMI we would have all our email, documents, correspondence and database information, and we would be back up and running. Thats also extraordinarily important from a FINRA and SEC compliance standpoint.

FWCG is a Silicon Valley-based wealth planning firm that manages nearly $ 100 million in assets. Prior to selecting BUMI, FWCG managed backups internally and needed an off-site solution to safeguard its data. Additionally, the firm utilizes Global Relay for email archiving. In the event of an outage, we wanted the capability to recover from a major data loss, said Hilary Martin, Financial Planner at FWCG. With BUMI and Global Relay in place, I feel completely covered, both from a FINRA-compliance and data backup and recovery perspective.

For more information about BUMI, please visit http://www.bumi.com.

About Global Relay

Founded in 1999, Global Relay is the expert in Compliance Messaging Solutions including Archiving, eDiscovery, Mobile Messaging and Collaboration. Global Relay Archive securely captures and preserves email, instant messaging, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, social media and more with BlackBerry, iPhone, Outlook and web access. Global Relays 15,000 customers in 90 countries include broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment advisors and public companies, as well as 22 of the top 25 global banks. Global Relay has strategic partnerships worldwide, including a global Strategic Partnership with Thomson Reuters for compliance archiving. For more information, contact Global Relay at 866.484.6630 or http://www.globalrelay.com.

About BUMI (Backup My Info!)

Founded in 2002, BUMI (Backup My Info!) specializes in delivering online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Based in New York City, BUMI provides an off-site data protection solution that addresses critical issues such as rapid growth of data, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Every BUMI client is cared for by a team of senior-level engineers dedicated to providing proactive and personalized support. Clients include professional service organizations such as banking, financial, insurance, accounting, hedge funds and law firms. For more information, visit http://www.bumi.com, call (866) 444-BUMI (2864), or follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/backupmyinfo.

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Former Wasatch Team Launches Grandeur Peak Fund Family-- Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities and International Opportunities Funds Launch Today, October 17, 2011

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) October 17, 2011

Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, the firm founded by former Wasatch portfolio managers Robert Gardiner and Blake Walker, announced today the launch of two new mutual funds: the Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund and the Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund.

The Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund (GPGOX/GPGIX) will be a portfolio of 100-150 global equities, with a strong bias towards small and micro cap companies. Investments will include companies based in the U.S., developed foreign countries, and emerging/frontier markets. The portfolio has flexibility to adjust its investment mix by market cap, country, and sector in order to invest where the portfolio managers believe the best global opportunities currently exist. See the Prospectus for additional fund detail.

The Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund (GPIOX/GPIIX) will be a portfolio comprised of 100-150 small and micro cap growth companies outside of the United States. Said co-portfolio manager, Blake Walker Given the vast number of high quality, growing, and underfollowed small/micro cap companies abroad, we believe this is the single most interesting segment of the global equities landscape for the coming decade. See the Prospectus for additional fund detail.

Robert Gardiner, Grandeur Peak CEO and Portfolio Manager, said In a world where business is increasingly global and country boundaries continue to blur, we believe the best long-term investment opportunities can be uncovered by investors who are fully canvassing the world to find and consider each company within its global context. Mr. Gardiner continued Our vision for global investing includes disciplined screening to find interesting companies in every part of the world, thorough hands-on research to sort the wheat from the chaff, and careful monitoring of valuations in an effort to maximize investment results. We are long-term investors, looking for smaller companies that we believe have great growth potential over the next five years and beyond.

Co-Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer Blake Walker added, Our bias is towards small and micro cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. The universe of impressive yet underfollowed small and micro cap companies around the world is extensive and growing every day. There are a tremendous number of high quality companies with strong growth potential which are simply too small to catch the eye of Wall Street analysts and larger mutual funds.

The Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities and the International Opportunities funds will each have a management fee of 1.25%. This is the lowest management fee of any fund that Mr. Gardiner or Mr. Walker has managed. The Funds also have an expense cap in place to help control the impact to shareholders of the significant start-up and global expenses. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing. Note, the Investor Share Class has a minimum investment of just $ 2000, while the Institutional Share Class has a minimum investment of $ 100,000.

Eric Huefner, president and co-founder, described how investors can purchase the new funds: Investors can go to http://www.grandeurpeakglobal.com to open a Grandeur Peak Funds account on-line, or to download an application. Applications can also be requested by calling 1.855.377.PEAK (7325). We are working with Schwab, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Pershing, Vanguard, and other third party intermediaries to get selling agreements in place as quickly as possible. We hope our funds will be available on these and other platforms shortly.

About Grandeur Peak Global Advisors

Grandeur Peak Global Advisors is comprised of a highly seasoned and collaborative research team taking a bottom-up approach to investing using disciplined global screening, rigorous company due diligence, and close attention to valuation to find what we believe to be the best investment opportunities around the world. Our bias is towards small and micro cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, LLC is an employee-owned investment adviser headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

The objective of both the Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund and the Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund is long-term growth of capital. These funds are new and have limited operating history.

Mutual fund investing involves risks and loss of principal is possible. Investing in small and micro cap funds will be more volatile and loss of principal could be greater than investing in large cap or more diversified funds. Investing in foreign securities entails special risks, such as currency fluctuations and political uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the prospectus. Investments in emerging markets are subject to the same risks as other foreign securities and may be subject to greater risks than investments in foreign countries with more established economies and securities markets.

This material must be accompanied or preceded by a prospectus. Please read it carefully before investing.

Grandeur Peak Funds will deduct a 2.00% redemption proceeds fee on Fund shares held 60 days or less. For more complete information including charges, risks and expenses, read the prospectus carefully.

Valuation is the process of determining the current worth of an asset or company.

Wasatch Advisors is not affiliated with Grandeur Peak Global Advisors or with ALPS Distributors, Inc.

Grandeur Peak Funds are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc (ADI). Eric Huefner is a registered representative of ADI.

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