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Robert Emmet Brennan (born 1944) is an American businessman and former accountant who built the infamous penny stock brokerage firm, First Jersey Securities. The firm specialized in promoting penny stocks to unsuspecting investors, many of them elderly, who lost their entire investments when the stocks inevitably crashed.
Edward Crosby Johnson II was born in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1898, to Samuel Johnson, a partner in the dry-goods firm C.F. Hovey and Co. and Josephine Johnson (née Forbush). [1]
The company initially focused almost exclusively in government bonds. Both men were short on capital at the time and relied on $15,000 worth of loans from family and friends. Fisk and Hatch found success as sub-agents for Jay Cooke & Company, popularizing and selling millions of dollars in government war securities in New York and New England.
G.X. was founded in 1979. It was registered with the SEC as an institutional dealer in fixed-income securities. In 2016, the company acquired Sterne Agee. The sale included Sterne Agee’s clearing business and RIA businesses. INTL purchased the company from Stifel, just over a year after Stifel bought Sterne Agee as part of a $150 million ...
Broadridge was founded in 1962 [5] as ADP Brokerage Services Group, [9] a business unit [6] of the American payroll processing company Automatic Data Processing (ADP). [5] Operating as ADP's shareholder communications division, [10]: 27 [11] it initially served one client by processing an average of 300 trades per night. [9]
Cancro changed the company's name to Jersey Mike's when he began franchising in 1987. He later rolled out a program to help store managers become franchise owners, which he named after his old coach.
The 66-year-old started working at its original location in New Jersey in 1971 when he was a high-school student and bought the location business, then called Mike’s Subs, in 1975 when he was ...
One of the first suppliers of electronic trading services, ITG launched the industry’s second anonymous electronic trade matching system, POSIT, in 1987 (Instinet Cross was launched in 1986). [ citation needed ] ITG has since expanded its business to include tools for portfolio management, pre-trade analysis , order management , trade ...