1.   As walls come down between the banking and brokerage industry, U.S. and foreign banks have been scrambling to buy brokerages this year.

2.   Echigo, based in Niigata City, north west Japan, is the second brokerage this year to go out of business.

3.   U.S. and foreign banks have been scrambling to buy brokerages this year as walls come down between the banking and brokerage industries.

4.   U.S. and foreign banks have been scrambling to buy brokerages this year as walls come down between the banking and brokerage industry.

5.   Ming Group is the third brokerage this year to face financial troubles, after C.A. Pacific Securities Ltd. and Forluxe Securities went into liquidation earlier.

6.   Ming Group is the third brokerage this year to face financial troubles, after C.A. Pacific Securities Ltd. and Forluxe Securities went into liquidiation earlier.