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Series 38 – Canada Securities Representative Exam - No Options; Series 42 – Registered Options Representative Exam; Series 44 – NYSE Arca Options Market Maker Exam; Series 47 – Japanese Module of the General Securities Exam; Series 50 – Municipal Advisor Representative Exam; Series 52 – Municipal Securities Representative Exam ...
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) is the Illinois state government code department [1] [2] that through its operational components, the Division of Banking, Division of Financial Institutions, Division of Professional Regulation, and Division of Real Estate, oversees the regulation and licensure of banks and financial institutions, real estate businesses ...
Men working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade as photographed by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine in 1949 Trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1993. The concerns of U.S. merchants to ensure that there were buyers and sellers for commodities have resulted in forward contracts to sell and buy commodities.
Its clearing members serve both professional traders and public customers and are approximately 115 of the largest U.S. broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and non-U.S. securities firms. OCC also serves other markets, including those of trading commodity futures, commodity options, and security futures.
The pits can be raised and lowered depending on trading volume. To an onlooker, the open outcry system can look chaotic and confusing, but in reality, the system is a tried and true method of accurate and efficient trading. An illustrated project to record the hand signal language used in CME's trading pits has been compiled. [3]
In 1997, Carr Futures was acquired by Crédit Agricole, and in 2004, Carr Futures was rebranded as Calyon Financial. On January 2, 2008, Calyon Financial merged with Fimat to become Newedge , which was jointly owned in a 50/50 split between the two forming company's parent banks, Calyon and Société Générale .
Futures Commission Merchant (FCM): a firm or individual that solicits or accepts orders for commodity contracts traded on an exchange and holds client funds to margin, similar to a securities broker-dealer. Most individual traders do not work directly with a FCM, but rather through an IB or CTA.
[3] State laws governing issuance and trading of securities are commonly referred to as blue sky laws and mostly deal with fraud and fraud investigation privileges, registration of securities, and registration of broker-dealers. In general, states allow injunctions to stop businesses from potentially fraudulent activity and states give broad ...