Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, for example, has threatened to require the commission to pay the administrative costs of reducing sentences out of its budget.
Goldman Sachs -- unlike Merrill Lynch; Morgan Stanley and Salomon Smith Barneyy, a Citigroup unit -- lacks a retail network of brokers who can provide a stream of commissions to pay for its research.
European regulators had argued that the government paid too much, in effect giving ING a subsidy, and as part of the October deal, the bank agreed with the commission to pay more for the guarantee.
One reformer, Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS), has been especially energetic, having settled charges of market timing and of failure to disclose that it used brokerage commissions to pay for marketing.
Sotheby's Holdings earned enough in commissions to pay Diana Dede Brooks Dianana "Dede" Brooks $1.2 million annually in salary and bonuses, and possibly tens of millions more from stock options.
Starting next year, the company will disclose portfolio holdings every month, with a 30-day lag, and eliminate "soft dollars," or directed brokerage commissions, to pay for research and services.
He used funds from his private commissions to pay for his public projects.
We hope to help people become more environmentally conscious, help retailers sell Earth-friendly products, and use our commissions to pay our expenses and contribute profits to environmental causes.
Churches selling commissioned Tiffany pieces to pay the bills are not, of course, ideal for scholarship and preservation.
