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• Clearers on the March

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  September 1, 2008

  Bear Stearns' sudden collapse last March indeed shook Wall Street and sent shock waves throughout every financial market around the globe. But at least one behind-the-scenes...

• More than Just Clearing

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  April 1, 2008

  Financial advisors are quick to call theirs a people-to-people business; and since they're out on the front lines, that's completely correct. But now some traditionally backstage...

• Keeping Clearing Clients Happy

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  September 1, 2007

  Freud famously asked: What do women want? Women, of course, want what clearing-firm clients want: to be listened to. Listening is a simple concept; yet...

• Solution Providers

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  April 1, 2007

  Today's changing financial services industry is faced with a stunning number of new challenges. But clearing firms -- duking it out in their ever-shrinking arena...

• Symbiotic Relationships

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2007

  When broker/dealers select a clearing firm to partner with, it pays to be choosy. This is one of the most critical relationships that any broker/dealer...

• Here, There and Everywhere

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2006

  A new study by Moss Adams claims that dual registration--which means advisors who are registered with both the SEC and the NASD, and are collecting...

• A Notch Higher

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2006

  For a few years now, consolidation and regulatory scrutiny have been the buzzwords in the clearing business, but executives at clearing firms say another trend...