No additional funds from the PFCSIs are pledged to the CIF bonds, but Fitch also analyzes the general financial and operating health of member institutions, which can affect generation of pledged revenues over the long run.

The system has no specific plans to issue additional CIF debt or to add additional state colleges to the program at this time.

However, in 2000, when the National Securities Clearing Corporation added CIFs to its trading platform, CIFs began to trade daily and provide daily valuations, with liquidity available on a daily, monthly or quarterly basis.

CIFs also offer a greater range of investment objectives with either passive or active investment management styles, and are arguably less expensive than mutual funds.

Participation in the CIF trust is limited to tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), with certain exceptions and limitations.

Currently, TOE-enabled Gigabit Ethernet cards can reduce host CPU utilization to less than 10% for iSCSI traffic and accelerate NFS and CIFS transactions.

The use of the common and open NFS and CIFS standards is a plus as it forces vendors to move to non-proprietary storage solutions, often a task met with resistance.

The KMTB CIF, located 56 miles northeast of Baghdad, is one of four such facilities that are operated by the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) J-4 (Logistics).

Pledged CIF revenues collected by the PFCSIs totaled $39.9 million in fiscal 2017 and provided sound 4.3x coverage of maximum annual debt service (MADS, $9.3 million).

But your bank account may also get a little leaner if you don't get and keep receipts for any OCIE you turn in at a Central Issue Facility (CIF).