Becoming a broker-dealer is a non-trivial process and not all of the portals will make it through.

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This can usually be handled through your broker, and the paperwork will take a few weeks to process.

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After getting consumers actively involved in monitoring and grooming their profiles meaning better and more accurate information than more passive profiling companies offer it plans to monetize the process, and allow those with accounts to make money when a data broker buys their information.

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Congress should, if it does anything with regard to "fixing the process" in the aftermath of the FS-X deal, ensure that an honest broker is created.

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For decades the process has worked something like this: A floor manager at a booth relays an order to a floor broker.

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The next steps in the OpenTCA initiative include branching out from the initial group of broker sponsors to include buy-side and additional sell-side representation in order to establish a process for adoption of best practices.

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