1.   The brokerage arm of Chemical Banking Corp. will cease to underwrite and trade municipal bonds by the end of January.

2.   Bill Brewster, David Sisemore and Tom Schwarz will be regional managers of the brokerage arm.

3.   A vast majority are concentrated in the unit based here in Somerset that provides support for the retail brokerage arm.

4.   CB also has a real estate brokerage arm and other services.

5.   Cargill Financial Services is the brokerage arm of Minneapolis-based trading company Cargill Inc.

6.   Consider the ill-fated bid by the Wall Street financier Sanford I. Weill for the brokerage arm of Barings P.L.C., the insolvent British investment bank.

7.   In recent months, the brokerage arms of NationsBank and several other commercial banks have come under regulatory scrutiny for their sales of mutual funds.

8.   Investcorp and Banco Irmaos Guimaraes, the parent of the brokerage arm sold to Deutsche, were taken over by the central bank because of financial difficulties.

9.   Nor did she suggest going to Chase Investment Services, the brokerage arm.