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LONDON - - The VocaLink Take Home Pay Index Rises by 0.2% to 1.3% - Manufacturing Wage Growth Rose From an All-Time Low of 1.1% in May to hit 1.3% in June - Services Sector Take Home Pay Reversed its Sharp Plunge in May, Growing by 0.2% to 1.2% Note to Editors: The VocaLink Take Home Pay Index is an important aspect of the UK's economic performance and one of the components that drives the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee's (MPC) interest rate policy due to be announced today.

CHICAGO - A Northern Trust survey of institutional investors and investment managers finds an increasing demand for information and analytics to support risk management, and a need to improve their organizations' ability to successfully implement risk models in the investment process.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - In Italy's telecom market, video revenue will triple its share of total revenue by 2014, presenting a US$4.4 billion revenue opportunity for operators, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

MUNICH - The new EC Toys Directive is, like good education in the view of conservative pedagogues, clear and strict.

LONDON - Companies across the globe are failing to maintain the required legislative and regulatory reporting requirements for their subsidiaries, according to TMF Group, (TMF) the world's leading independent provider of accounting and corporate secretarial services and Computershare Governance Services (CGS), the leading subsidiary governance software supplier.