The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

It is used by Ameritrade, the largest online trading service in the US with over 12 billion transactions per day, as well as by the Bank of England and Barclays Bank, among others.

The world's largest TPF-based systems are easily capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per second.

The largest transactions have been: the merger of Boeing with McDonnell valued at 13. 4 bil.

The largest transactions have been: the acquisition of Goodrich Corporation by United Technologies Corporation for 16. 2 bil.

PCCW Teleservices operates a contact center outsourcing business and boasts one of the region's largest contact management networks and a significant operation in the U. S. It handles inbound and outbound calls, emails and other transactions for customers, and serves many multinational companies.

The Federal Reserve Banks are collectively the nation's largest automated clearing house operator, and in 2005 processed 60 % of commercial interbank ACH transactions.

The largest transactions were made during yearly fairs held three times a year.

In October 2001, Brazin Limited ( owner of Australia's largest entertainment retailer, Sanity ) reintroduced Virgin Megastores in the country via two related transactions with the Virgin Group, acquiring 77 troubled Our Price music stores in the UK for a symbolic £ 2, and inturn gaining exclusive license rights in Australia for Virgin Entertainment, initially setting up the first Virgin Megastore on Chapel Street's, The Jam Factory in April 2002.

One of its largest transactions was with the Miller Brewing Company in the US in 2002, whereupon the listed company changed its name to SABMiller plc.

Since its founding, KKR has completed a number of landmark transactions including the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was the largest buyout in history to that point, as well as the 2007 buyout of TXU, which is currently the largest buyout completed to date.

In one of the largest barter transactions of recorded history, the builders of the capitol were paid with over three-million acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of public land in the " Panhandle " region of Texas ; this tract later became the largest cattle ranch in the world, the XIT Ranch.

* 2006-03-17: Vodafone officially announced it had agreed to sell Vodafone Japan ( Vodafone KK ) to SoftBank for a total of 1. 75 trillion Japanese yen ( approx US $ 15. 1 Billion ) in one of the largest M & A transactions in Japan to date

This was to be achieved through a complex series of transactions by which PERNAS would end up as the largest shareholder of both.

Blackstone's private equity business has been one of the largest investors in leveraged buyout transactions over the last decade, while its real estate business has actively acquired commercial real estate.

The largest firms like to call themselves " Big-Law " firms because they have sections specializing on each category of legal work, which in the U. S. usually means mergers and acquisitions transactions, banking, and certain types of high-stakes corporate litigation.

Although this massive buyout was never actually completed, TPG was a leading investor during the 2006-2008 buyout boom, completing some of the largest transactions in this period.

Newbridge was involved in a number of the largest and most notable private equity transactions in Asia including:

On October 3, 1934, Conacher was involved in one of the largest transactions in league history.

Vail Resorts also owns just over 50 % of Slifer, Smith and Frampton ( SSF ) Vail Real Estate, the largest real estate brokerage company in the Vail region, controlling over 70 % of the real estate transactions in the market.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest rental car company in The United States, and has more than 5, 400 “ local market ” locations ( 95 % of all transactions ), and 419 airport locations ( 30 % of all transactions ).

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

* 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.

Greece had also allowed the Bulgarians to control the stretch of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople railroad that lay in Greek-occupied territory, since Bulgaria controlled the largest part of this railroad towards Thrace.

The Combo law was supported by both major parties at the time ( PLN and PUSC ) as well as by President Rodriguez, but the first of three required legislative votes to approve it provoked the largest protest demonstrations the country had seen since 1970.

The sector has had the second largest ( after energy ) investment in infrastructure ( 54 percent ) since 1997.

Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.

For much of the time since its foundation, the brewery was Dublin's largest employer.

The OTC derivative market is the largest market for derivatives, and is largely unregulated with respect to disclosure of information between the parties, since the OTC market is made up of banks and other highly sophisticated parties, such as hedge funds.

It was the largest IPO since Google.

The Ellensburg Rodeo has been a town tradition since 1923, and is the largest rodeo in Washington state.

The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9. 0 or larger was a 9. 0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 ( as of March 2011 ), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began.

A nine month long war ended on December 16 of 1971, when the Pakistan Armed Forces overran in Dhaka, ultimately signing the instrument of surrender which resulted the largest in number of prisoners of war since World War II.

Finnish troops have participated in UN peacekeeping activities since 1956, and the Finns continue to be one of the largest per capita contributors of peacekeepers in the world.

In 2004, Indian elections covered an electorate larger than 670 million people — over twice that of the next largest, the European Parliament elections — and declared expenditure has trebled since 1989 to almost $ 300 million, using more than 1 million electronic voting machines.

As of Feb 17, 2012, M41 is the largest Mersenne prime for which it is known that there is no other unknown Mersenne prime below, with a lower exponent, since all Mersenne numbers with prime exponent below 24, 212, 801 have been checked twice.

Two states emerged: West Germany was a parliamentary democracy, a NATO member, a founding member of what since became the European Union and one of the world's largest economies, while East Germany was a totalitarian Communist dictatorship that was a satellite of Moscow.

The Coalition scored a stunning victory over the ALP, winning many former ALP seats and sweeping back into power with ( at the time ) the largest parliamentary majority since Federation.

It has grown since its beginning in 1976 and now is the second largest festival held in the state of Kentucky.

The March 11 quake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and is the world's fourth largest earthquake to strike since 1900, according to the U. S. Geological Service.

Jardines has been in the insurance broking business since its earliest days in Canton and JLT, which is quoted on the London Stock Exchange, is one of the largest companies of its kind in the world.

Ashcroft received 64 percent of the vote in the general election — the largest landslide for governor in Missouri history since the U. S. Civil War.

The world's largest creator of Karaoke tracks, Blank Productions USA, ( since 1986 ), produces between 40 and 60 titles per month, adding to their 25, 000 title library, which is licensed to manufacturers and content providers.