SIM, a prominent local securities house, says that most of Milan's stockbrokers now firmly support Mr Padoa-Schioppa.
They also have expanded brokerages' businesses and let foreign companies boost their presence in local securities joint ventures among other measures.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission confirmed that about 2.4tn won in sell orders from foreign investors were processed on that day, most of them through Deutsche Bank's local securities unit.
You can also ask your local state securities (see NASAA link above to locate your state securities agency) or insurance regulator for a background check on any broker, adviser or agent.
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The inflation data triggered heavy buying in bank shares and most blue chips in other sectors, said Harish Vasudevan, an equity strategist at local brokerage SVS Securities.
Peru's securities regulator suspended local operations of the Stanford Financial Group for 30 days.
But Singapore brokerages are reeling not just from the arrival of the big global guys, but also from online securities trading and falling local fees.
Mobile associations must work in tandem with governmental and securities agencies to ensure that local laws are built around ensuring safety of data theft and data leakage.
The rush to sell BABs before the deadline is also driving up yields on those securities, adding to state and local government borrowing costs.
It is creating a central clearing house for foreign investors to directly access the Russian securities market without having to have a local broker.
Nikko's 128 local branches would make great conduits for Citigroup's securities, mutual fund, banking and insurance products.
Because investing in local markets can still give foreigners headaches, some banks are offering synthetic securities instead.
With the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which required class action firms to seek the largest holders of securities to serve as lead plaintiffs in their cases, suddenly local pension lawyers were being offered substantial referral fees by national class action firms if they could persuade their pension clients to lead such class actions.
"It's not the kind of situation where fears are just going to fade away, since the required amount of aid that Spain will need is likely to mount given the increasing needs of local government, " said Masayuki Doshida, a senior market analyst at Rakuten Securities in Japan.
People are generally familiar with the fact that Wall Street and the largest financial institutions got hurt by toxic mortgage-related securities, but they sometimes forget that Main Street and the smaller regional and local community banks remain stuck with the hard assets of incomplete housing and other community-related construction projects.
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Greg Heym, an economist at Brown Harris Stevens and Halstead, said the slowdown likely reflected weakness in the local job market, including last year's loss of 4, 300 jobs in the securities industry between April and December.
This would prevent any more money market panics of the kind that recently gripped local governments in Florida, which had a run on a state-managed money market fund that had some questionable securities.
Soon after Qwest Communications, the biggest local-telephone company in 14 states, joined the list of firms under investigation, it was revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into the sales practices of Bristol-Myers Squibb, a big drug company.
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