1.   Brown Inc., an investment banking and securities brokerage firm with expertise in initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

2.   Chicago-based Mesirow Financial boasts about its diversity, offering securities brokerage, investment banking, money management and real estate management.

3.   David Barse has been named president of M.J. Whitman Inc., a securities brokerage and money management firm known for its skill in trading the debt of troubled companies.

4.   Deutsche Bank owns Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Inc., an international securities brokerage, investment bank and fund manager.

5.   Fee income growth was led by investment management, service charges on deposit accounts, loan servicing, and securities brokerage.

6.   It ends separations between banking, insurance and securities brokerage dating from the Depression era and rewrites rules in areas ranging from consumer privacy to community lending.

7.   Life insurers with securities brokerages, such as Equitable Cos. and Travelers Group, were also leaders in the quarter, analysts said.

8.   MONY offers individual life and disability insurance, annuities, mutual funds and securities brokerage.

9.   More recently it has expanded into new services, such as securities brokerage and insurance.

10.   At least some of the women performed office work at his unlicensed securities brokerage.