100 Ipads Save Greece $140 Billion

The idea was to give the participants a rich set of analytic tools and real-time, secure connections to both the global clearing systems and the back offices of banks around the world.

"During the lead-up to the launch," says Apfel, "members of the financial leadership team were spending over half their time on the road, meeting with investors or financial overseers from the EU and other parts of the troika. There was a palpable need to create a financial decision-makers' platform that could follow the financier – not vice versa."

When last deal finally closed on April 25, $270 billion of Greek debt had been reduced to $130 billion.

"It was the largest financial transaction in the history of the world," says Apfel. "And we couldn't have done it without the iPad.
Source: fortune