It launched Smart Trading, a direct imitation of Euwax, with the support of some big intermediaries.
Yet in most European countries distribution is sewn up by a handful of big intermediaries.
That trust, it turns out, was misplaced, and several big intermediaries and fund companies stand accused of conspiring with market-timing hedge funds to slip orders in long after the cutoff.
They have already busted the backs of other big intermediaries, like the music industry and chain bookstores.
The lending mistakes of the past crippled the supply of finance in the present.China may suffer something like the first phase of America's slowdown, but it should escape the second.It will not allow any of its big financial intermediaries to go bust.
The company has been shopping around its more than $1 billion porn and high-risk merchant portfolio, made up mostly of iBill and a handful of other big porn payment intermediaries like it.
Acting as a green intermediary, The Big Idea bundles purchases of regular services like like cellphone plans and auto insurance — what Mr. Norton calls "low-engagement products" — to achieve social impact.
"Sony is selling some things online for 1,000 yen less than in stores, which is a big step toward removing intermediaries and connecting to the consumer".
Even the fake Nigerian prince has grown up, learned better English, and often serves as an intermediary on other, bigger scams.
The document lists the intermediaries, including familiar big operators such as Jonathan Barnett's Stellar, Leon Angel's Base, "super agents" Jorge Mendes, Mino Raiola and Pini Zahavi, who acted in the deals when thousands of players joined clubs, signed new contracts or were sold by English clubs to overseas sides.
