By selling these, banks have brokered insurance contracts to the new holders of risk that in good times produce steady streams of income, but could require huge payouts if markets ever seize up.The second is the rating agencies, the new arbiters of credit risk.
Beyond that, many are caught in spiraling debts to the employment agencies that brokered their contracts and are meanwhile breadwinners for their husbands and children in their home countries.
Wall Street was impressed with Enron's strategy of swooping into formerly regulated markets to broker contracts for natural gas, electricity or unused telecom bandwidth.
But the Town Board, now controlled by Democrats for the first time in 30 years and led by Supervisor Brian X . Foley has extended the two brokers' contracts for only 90 days, to give officials time to analyze the town's insurance portfolio.
That includes introducing or raising tuition, brokering corporate contracts — and soliciting donations.
Increasingly, companies are veering away from permanent employees in favor of temporary, three-month contracts brokered by employment agencies.
Though Dean refuses her pleas for help, she nevertheless reveals to him the demon Lilith holds all the contracts brokered by Crossroads Demons, including his own.
The service center acts as a platform to attract the supply and demand sides of private lending to engage in trade, in which various financing intermediary service agencies provide services including transaction-brokered contracts, notary, appraisal of assets, legal advice, and other services for both sides.
President François Hollande of France recently brokered a master contract with the three largest unions that will make it easier for companies to lower salaries or to lay off workers when business drops.
Just this week, Mr. Bloomberg said he would kill a deal to sell three city-owned buildings near the United Nations, scuttling a contract brokered more than a year ago that was strongly supported by Mr. Giuliani.
The issue at the heart of the dispute between actors and producers, who averted a work stoppage with a tentative new contract brokered on Monday afternoon, was not the state of the theatrical economy in New York or the treatment of actors or their pay.
