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4 unusual facts about broker-dealer


Broker Dealer Exchange

BDX is mostly involved in Mergers and Acquisitions in the small to middle market Broker-dealer space, although it does have a business of introducing buyers and sellers of other financial services assets, e.g. individual brokerage and financial planning practices, books of business, trading platforms, and "shell" Broker Dealers.

OTC Bulletin Board

Broker-dealers who subscribe to the system, which is not electronic, can use the OTCBB to enter orders for OTC securities that qualify to be quoted.

SalesPage

SalesPage Broker/Dealer delivers back-office CRM tools that broker-dealer firms use to help recruit and retain financial advisors.

Secret Dealers

Items are found by the dealers, who make their own valuation and try to purchase them by placing a cash offer on items around the home and give some advice or information on the Antiques.


1762 in poetry

James Bisset (died 1832), Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet

Adolphe-Félix Cals

Art dealer Pierre–Firmin Martin, known as "Father Martin", liked his work, and Cals went on to paint portraits of Martin and his wife (now in the "Musée Eugène Boudin" in Honfleur).

Alfred Atmore Pope

They bought majolica and frames in Venice, and a Roman bust from an Italian dealer; Whistler and Charles Méryon prints, a boulle inkstand, mahogany liquor case, Persian rugs and a William Morris tapestry based on Walter Crane's The Goose Girl in London; and in Paris a Venetian mirror, Antoine-Louis Barye bronzes, Japanese prints and three Monets from leading art dealers Boussoud, Valadon.

Andre Melendez

Melendez became a drug dealer during the early 1990s after he met Peter Gatien, owner of the Limelight Club in New York, and became a regular dealer in Gatien's clubs.

Badminton

As early as 1860, Isaac Spratt, a London toy dealer, published a booklet, Badminton Battledore – a new game, but unfortunately no copy has survived.

Bandoneon

The bandoneon, so named by the German instrument dealer, Heinrich Band (1821–1860), was originally intended as an instrument for religious and popular music of the day, in contrast to its predecessor, the German concertina (or Konzertina), considered to be a folk instrument by some modern authors.

Camp Papago Park

The property now is divided between the Papago Park Military Reservation, belonging to the Arizona National Guard, a city park, residential neighborhoods and a car dealer's lot.

Christina Stead

Stead also became involved with the writer, broker and Marxist political economist William J. Blake (formerly Wilhelm Blech), with whom she travelled to Spain (leaving at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War) and to the USA.

Danny Fiszman

Daniel David Fiszman (9 January 1945 – 13 April 2011) was a diamond dealer, best known as a shareholder in and director of Arsenal Football Club, and played a leading role in the club's move from Highbury to Ashburton Grove, now known as Emirates Stadium.

Derek Cook

In addition to the formation of DC Cook Direct, Derek Cook had also formed Motor Solutions in 2002, an online discount dealer of new and used cars, which was later sold to Virgin Group (with Virgin taking a 53% stake, and keeping Cook on as the chief executive), and renamed as Virgin Cars, before its closure in January 2006, seven months after Cook's death.

Eric Butler-Henderson

Born Eric Brand Henderson on 26 September 1884 at Norwood Green in Middlesex, the son of Alexander and Jane Henderson, his father was a stock broker.

Ferrari 275

A 275 GTB/4 N.A.R.T. Spyder version was only available from a single American dealer, Luigi Chinetti.

Frank Austin

Frank P. Austin (1937–2002), interior designer and antique dealer

Georgia Anderson

From there, she put her education to good use and found herself working in Futures and Forex as a broker on Wall Street, which inspired her to author a beginner's guide on the subject: ‘Technical Analysis For Day Trading of Forex and Futures’.

Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck (1844–1913), German animal dealer, zoo- and circus-director

Hamlyn's monkey

The name "Hamlyn's monkey" and the scientific epithet "hamlyni" come from the animal dealer who first brought this species to the London Zoo.

High Times' Potluck

Along the way the weed passes through the hands of an obnoxious artist (Jason Isaacs), an unfortunate small-time dealer (Jason Mewes), a bereaved Mafia gangster (Frank Adonis), the lead-singer of a punk band (Theo Kogan) and an aging TV detective (Frank Gorshin).

Honda CB900C

Full Hondaline touring equipment (Fairing, Lower Leg Fairings, Saddlebags and Trunk were available from the Honda dealer to make the CB900C a complete Touring Bike.

John W. Rhodes

A successful real estate broker from Huntersville, North Carolina, Rhodes represented North Carolina's Ninety-Eighth House district (northern Mecklenburg County) for two terms (2003–2007).

Kay Granger

The amendment should continue to restrict the Pentagon from entering into new contracts with Russia’s state arms broker Rosoboronexport.

Keiser

Max Keiser, a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and activist

Keith P. Williams

A real estate broker and developer from Hubert, North Carolina, Williams is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in his first term in the state House.

Lane Carson

Carson is also a licensed building contractor and real estate broker, and an attorney in private practice.

Le tatoué

In an artist’s studio, rich Parisian art dealer Félicien Mézeray sees the old soldier Legrain, whose back has a tattoo by Modigliani.

Leinbachs, Pennsylvania

New commercial enterprises include, among others, a Porsche dealer, a Harley Davidson dealer, and a local pizza parlor.

Lewis Evangelidis

While living in New York City Evangelidis worked as a Commodities broker in the World Trade Center.

Liz Constable

She left the Liberal Party when it became clear that the favoured candidate of power-broker Noel Crichton-Browne would be given preselection for the safe seat of Floreat in 1991 at her expense.

Ludovisi Throne

Thomas Hoving, once director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recollects being told by an art dealer in Italy that the twin throne in Boston was the work of the great faker Alcide Dossena.

Maecenas Foundation

Centered in the city of Basel, it came to notice in 2005 when Swiss art dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, the owner of the Codex Tchacos, which contains the Gospel of Judas, informed the press that the manuscript would be donated to Maecenas for conservation and publication.

Méret Oppenheim

Lenders included singer David Bowie, the Swiss retail tycoon and art dealer Ursula Hauser, and the Dutch diamond magnate Sylvio Perlstein.

Naturesave Insurance

Influenced and inspired by Anita Roddick, the founder of the Body Shop, the company, and the charitable trust (The Naturesave Trust) were set up by ex-Lloyd’s insurance broker Matthew Criddle, on the premise that probabilistic assessments of the future would become harder to establish as global warming and climate change directly affect the insurance industry’s ability to meet climate related insurance losses.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Nick Bateman

On returning to England he then worked in the City of London for ten years as a broker for the Willis Group Holdings (working at Lloyd's of London) from 1990.

Paula Tiso

EverQuest II - Tibby Copperpot / Noelle Dering / Fhara Hunford / Seer Eco / Commissioner Venilos / Liege Helvanica / Guard Williamson / Wanderer Greencoast / Preservationist Reynolds / Chronicler Steelwill / Banker Deephathom / Japhet L'Zon / Broker Profallia

Paxton Automotive

A short run of Shelby Mustangs were fitted with Paxton superchargers, and Ford dealers offered Paxton superchargers as a dealer-fitted Ford Mustang option from 1965 to 1972.

Pechiney

Brandeis (Brokers) Ltd was a broker and ring dealing member on the London Metal Exchange that operated as a subsidiary of Pechiney from 1981 through 2000, when it was banned from trading by the FSA.

Robert Deyber

Robert grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - his mother a talented portrait artist and fashion model who died when Deyber was sixteen, his father Robert Deyber Sr. a real estate broker and POW, survivor of the Bataan Death March.

Robert Isaacson

Upon Isaacson's return to New York, he became an art dealer almost by accident, taking on Edwin Hewitt's gallery at the request of mutual friend Lincoln Kirstein.

Rocky Colavito

In 1994, Terry Pluto, who covered the Indians for The Plain Dealer in the 1980s and became the top sports columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal (but returned to The Plain Dealer in 2007), published The Curse of Rocky Colavito, a book that tried to explain why the Indians had not come within even 11 games of first place since 1959.

Sainty

Guy Stair Sainty (born 1950), art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry

Seida

For a few years along the 50s, Seida was also dealer in Spain for the British Rootes Group car brands, and too for the short-lived Spanish-made Babcock truck.

Sherman Pendergarst

After college he worked as a mortgage broker but soon began practicing martial arts and boxing before moving to Bettendorf, Iowa to train with the Miletich Fighting Systems.

Southern Crowned Pigeon

This species was first discovered new to science by Otto Finsch who found a live bird received from the dealer C. Scheepmaker in Amsterdam Zoo and named it after him.

SpringSource

Acquisitions continued including RabbitMQ (an open-source AMQP message broker), Redis (an open source, noSQL key-value store) and Gemstone (developer of several data-management products).

Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko

At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 Madison Avenue, and he was living in Freeport, New York on Long Island.

Stereotypes of West and Central Asians in the United States

"The Turk", a Turkish Mafioso in the dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers and "Ahmet Sunay", a Turkish High-Tech Missile Guidance System dealer and "businessman" in the thriller film The International, both played by Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is another similar stereotype.

Thomas Mayne Reid

In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely).

Too Beautiful for You

It tells the story of Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), a well established BMW car dealer in the South of France, is cheating on his beautiful wife (Carole Bouquet) with his ordinary looking temporary secretary (Josiane Balasko).

Trish Goff

After returning to the United States, Goff received her real estate license from New York University and now works as a broker for Douglas Elliman in New York.

William Dana Ewart

A resident of Belle Plaine, Iowa, Ewart was a farm-implement dealer when he conceived of the idea.


see also

James Satloff

From 1996 through 2004, he served as an executive managing director of Standard & Poor's Investment Services, president of its Compustat division, and president of its broker/dealer, Standard & Poor's Securities, Inc.

Marex Spectron

Marex Financial was established in 2006 as an independent derivatives and Foreign Exchange broker providing trading in commodities, financial futures, options and foreign exchange.