1.   Among regional brokerages we like Tucker Anthony.

2.   As an analyst for Robinson-Humphrey Co., a regional brokerage firm, he recommended Imnet Systems again and again as the stock fell.

3.   A group of us set up a mutual fund company, and a regional brokerage firm sponsored us.

4.   Brown, a major regional stock brokerage firm based in Baltimore.

5.   Good stock ideas from regional brokerage firms are not always snapped up by the big guys.

6.   He rejoined Piper Jaffray, the regional brokerage firm that gave him his first job in the securities business, returning as its head of institutional sales.

7.   He vows nothing less than to catapult what was a second-tier, regional brokerage to the top of the investment banking world.

8.   In one example cited by Bair, Edward D. Jones, a regional brokerage firm, was offering Freddie Mac bonds in denominations sized for retail investors.

9.   Interra Financial Inc. said it will merge its Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Inc. and Dain Bosworth Inc. brokerage units, creating the largest regional brokerage firm in the western U.S.

10.   It has longstanding lending relationships with big companies and a growing regional brokerage business.