Also Reveals Pay and Benefits Differences Worldwide

Seattle, WA (19 March 2009) –The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), an international non-profit association that encourages local communication as an indispensable component to a global strategy, found in a recent worldwide survey of language service and tools providers that 57 percent of respondents reported to have felt a direct impact from the current global financial crisis, with 28 percent reporting no impact and 15 percent unsure.

Lloyds TSB is the latest major financial organisation to choose data mining automation technology from KXEN, deploying the solution across a 40-strong team to improve the speed, productivity and capability of its internal analytics resource.

Adopting KXEN's Analytic Framework after an extensive six-month evaluation the bank has been able to bring previously outsourced work back in house, has seen modeling timescales slashed from days or weeks to just a few hours and has freed up staff time to take on extra work.

Trustnet, a Financial Express website, has launched Alpha Manager Ratings as part of a wider analysis of fund managers’ career performance. This focuses the achievements of the mangers themselves across all funds they have managed regardless of employer.

Mike Jones, Publishing Director at Financial Express says: “The Alpha Manager rating is different from others in looking at a much longer career span. It is important to see how the mangers have performed in both bull and bear markets and the longer time period allows you to show this”

Investors and venture capitalists are heading to a major conference in April to plough their cash into the brightest ideas from young British technology companies.