In both instances, these services or products may include: company financial data and economic data (e.g., unemployment, inflation rates and GDP figures), stock quotes, last sale prices and trading volumes, research reports analyzing the performance of a particular company or stock, narrowly distributed trade magazines or technical journals covering specific industries, products, or issuers, seminars or conferences registration fees which provide substantive content relating to eligible research, quantitative analytical software and software that provides analyses of securities portfolios, trading strategies and pre / post trade analytics, discussions with research analysts or meetings with corporate executives which provide a means of obtaining oral advice on securities, markets or particular issuers, short - term custody related to effecting particular
transactions and clearance and settlement of those trades, lines between the broker - dealer and order management systems operated by a third party vendor, dedicated lines between the broker - dealer and the investment adviser's order management system, dedicated lines providing direct dial - up service between the investment adviser and the trading desk at the broker - dealer,
message services used to transmit orders to broker - dealers for execution, electronic communication of allocation instructions between institutions and broker - dealers, comparison services required by the SEC or another regulator (e.g., use of electronic confirmation and affirmation of institutional trades),
exchange of
messages among broker - dealers, custodians, and institutions related to a trade, post-trade matching of trade information, routing settlement instructions to custodian banks and broker - dealers» clearing agents, software that provides algorithmic trading strategies, and trading software operated by a broker - dealer to route orders to market centers or direct market access systems.
This makes use of off - chain peer - to - peer based networks, which allows users to
exchange messages only the final
transactions to be aided by the blockchain thereby reducing
transaction fees to up - to one seventh of the existing fee on the blockchain network.
• Provide front desk coverage by greeting customers and visitors • Provide information to customers regarding services and products • Direct and escort visitors and customers to the right department • Man telephone
exchange and take
messages • Transfer telephone calls and relay
messages • Schedule appointments for executives • Confirm and reschedule appointments • Process cash
transactions • Manage customer feedback information • Maintain customer database and records