But some consumer advocates have objected to the company's enrollment form, which asks people to send in a payment before providing pricing information.
If the companies don't go along, regulators may bar them from providing pricing benchmarks to exchanges, which is a source of revenue.
In what the commission termed "unannounced inspections," investigators descended on some European offices of BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Platts, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies that specializes in providing pricing for the oil industry.
One reason for Hewitt's optimism is that Owens & Minor recently began providing pricing methods more closely aligned to its products and services.
The team's mission is to help divisions achieve their financial and market objectives by providing pricing skills, tools, and project assistance that improve a division's pricing practices.
By never making this change or providing pricing flexibility to other verticals, Facebook had limited the use of Credits to social gaming, hamstringing the currency from ever having a chance of becoming universally appealing.
