Sinclair has owned and operated an NASD broker dealer, Concept 10, which specialized in financing micro and small-cap companies, and he is currently an investment banker and private investor.
The cloud broker is a concept that has developed over time, as cloud services have grown increasingly complex and large enterprises have had trouble navigating the different vendor offerings.
Hugo Quackenbush, senior vice president for planning and marketing at Charles Schwab & Co., the nation's largest discount broker, praised the concept of a 24-hour market but says Spear's trading spreads "seem real high". With the option of refusing certain trades, "it's hard for them to lose money," he says.
In those states that don't apply the fiduciary concept to brokers, the difference in legal obligations can affect cases involving the sale of so-called "proprietary products" (e.g., the brokerage's in-house mutual funds and other investment products), or cases alleging a "duty to monitor".
Emerging as a new stream of research, eleven studies evaluated or described knowledge broker roles or related concepts [ 6, 35, 37, 51- 57] with dedicated dissemination strategies evaluated in 7 studies and mentioned as a facilitator in 43.
This concept of context broker federation can be directly related to Cloud federation in which two or more geographically distinct or administratively independent Clouds cooperate in resource sharing and related functional operations, hence setting the conceptual foundation for federation of context-aware Clouds that exchange cross-domain context-information for serving their mobile/roaming users.
The broker's number was another concept I hadn't heard of.
This study introduces the concept of epistemic brokering in interpreter-mediated medical visits and illustrates how it can be used to effectively convey information between providers and patients/parents.
Housing prices peaked in the state during the summer of 2005, and real estate brokers around New Jersey say the concept of "right pricing" — adjusting asking prices downward to suit a sluggish market — is finally starting to sink in.
