Exchange-traded funds may also become a preferred alternative, provided that they are traded through a deep-discount brokerage firm.
It was not just the demise of a firm that traded through the Depression.
Now, cheese can be traded through brokers, anonymously, just like silver and pork bellies.
Bayou traded through, among other firms, a unit of Goldman Sachs.
In 2001, more than 70 percent of all Treasury securities were traded through Cantor.
The account that prompted the inquiry belonged to investors who traded through Goldman.
And swaps are 'over-the-counter' products (not traded through any centralised exchange).
It would require many derivatives to be traded through clearinghouses where they could be monitored.
The administration would require that all standardized derivatives be traded through a regulated clearinghouse.
Several generations ago, many of these rugs were traded through Mosul and consequently were known as Mosul rugs.
Now, most derivatives will be traded through clearinghouses, which will bear the risk, leaving banks to simply broker the transaction.
