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Wall Street & Technology February 3, 2005	REG NMS Cheat Sheet A synopsis of the 371-page SEC document outlining the Regulation National Market System proposal, with one-page summaries of each of its four components.
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Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Changing the Rules of the Game A change in the trade-through rule now on the SEC's agenda could lead to more direct-access and smart order-routing tools.
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Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 Charles R. Geisst	A Nation of Investors It is often said these days that we are a shareholder nation. But in 1975, you would have been laughed at for uttering such a fantastic prediction. Despite all of the positive developments in the stock markets, the matter of market integrity continued to rear its ugly head from time to time.
Bank Technology News June 2005 Glen Fest	Irreconcilable Differences? When Jerry Putnam used to describe the New York Stock Exchange and its practices, the CEO of Archipelago Holdings was prone to using words like monopolistic, blackball and pathology.
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Wall Street & Technology May 25, 2005 Dan Safarik	A Chip Off the Block The New York Stock Exchange plans to modernize its trading model with the upcoming Hybrid system, which, in part, is meant to draw back the large orders that have migrated to newer, electronic block-trading systems.
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Brokerage Web Sites Hit Hard By Dow Drop As the markets plunged yesterday, wait times on some of the largest online brokerage fell, too.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005	Blotter Not-So-Hot IPO: The NASD fined Thomas Weisel Partners for levying exorbitant commission charges on "hot" IPO shares... Expelled, Reinstated, Expelled: Brokerage firm LH Ross was officially expelled from the securities industry and fined... etc.
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Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reg NMS Tops the CIO Agenda The regulation to modernize the National Market System is shaping up as the single most important issue that chief information officers of buy-side and sell-side firms will focus on in 2005.
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Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Anthony Guerra	Follow the Leader The U.K.'s Financial Services Authority (FSA) finally issued its soft-dollar guidelines. Will the SEC take a page out of what the FSA has done? Probably.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Cory Levine	NYSE Requests a Four-Week Extension of the Reg NMS Deadline Although it has been beaten to death by industry analysts and press, the importance of the changes to the U.S. securities industry spurred by Reg NMS cannot be overstated. The industry anxiously awaits full implementation of the regulation in 2007.
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The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Millionaires Need Protecting, Too Regardless of how this issue plays out, expect continuing friction between the SEC and the hedge-fund industry. In the meantime, if you want to use alternative investments, you'd best get started toward the new $2.5 million mark.
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Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	How Low Can You Go? Reg NMS' proposed formula for allocating market-data revenues among exchanges isn't getting a warm welcome on the Street.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Paul Allen	Turning the Tide As ECNs and other alternative trading systems have emerged, fragmentation in the capital markets has increased. But with the acquisitions of Archipelago by the NYSE and of the Brut and INET ECNs by Nasdaq, the tide may be turning.
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