11.   The company told the Securities and Futures Authority, a British regulatory agency, that its main brokerage arm would cease trading yesterday.

12.   The SEC charged NationsBank and its brokerage arm, NationsSecurities, with marketing and selling two risky bond funds as if the investment products were federally insured banking products.

13.   Winchester Commodities Group has closed its brokerage arm, blaming a downturn in the metals market and adverse publicity in the wake of the Sumitomo Corp. copper scandal.

14.   Salomon is the brokerage firm arm of financial services giant Citigroup Inc.

15.   Standard Chartered Securities, the brokerage arm of British-based Standard Chartered PLC, has offices in Thailand, Singapore, Honk Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia.

16.   Comdirect, the online brokerage arm of Commerzbank, said Friday it had sold its wholly-owned French unit, Comdirect SA, to Parisian firm ProCapital.