Instead of being bought up by Star, US Weekly, and the National Inquirer, these snapshots are used to create profiles purchased by marketing companies and other data broker customers.
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McKeown said that 50 broker dealers are customers of SMARTS with 330 individual subscriptions around the world.
That's potentially bad news for InterActiveCorp's TicketMaster, which has agreements with many pro teams and concert venues as a primary ticket distributor but isn't set up to broker deals between customers.
That's potentially bad news for InterActiveCorp's (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) TicketMaster, which has agreements with many pro teams and concert venues as a primary ticket distributor but isn't set up to broker deals between customers.
Under the hybrid model, most stocks would trade electronically and customers could ask for a floor broker to handle trades.
The rest are to be bundled into the bank's private-client and asset-management division, which houses Deutsche Bank 24, the retail-banking arm (which already serves some small firms in any case), private banking (for richer customers) and Deutsche's online broker, called maxblue.
Consors, the second-biggest online broker, added 50, 000 new customers between July and September, taking its total to almost 500, 000.
The watchdog has also taken action against a former shares broker for selling high-risk shares to customers without their consent and using "unacceptable" sales tactics.
Customers must call in and request them, at which point a broker will get prices from outside dealers.
With only one broker, for example, how can the exchange ensure that customers really do get the best price?
CSFB, says that, within two years, the technology of the online brokers will enable them to deliver customers just as much and perhaps more than an average broker at a traditional full-service firm.
Customers will be vetted according to the regular Exante capitalization requirements and margin funds would be provided through institutional broker financing at a fixed % over LIBOR.
Once paid, some customers figure that they now have an insurance policy against future losses and will insist upon future settlements from the broker.
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