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{{anat|brokerage}}Strictly speaking, an investment firm which handles client orders for transactions in securities as an {{tag|agent}}. To be contrasted with a [[dealer]], who trades in the market as a {{tag|principal}} in its own right. | |||
More commonly referred to as a [[broker-dealer]], seeing as most firms act as both. | |||
Curiously one may speak of an [[executing broker]] but not an [[executing dealer]], and even if you did, you would be talking of a quite different beast to a [[prime broker]], which is neither, really, a [[broker]] ''or'' a [[dealer]]. | |||
===See also=== | |||
*{{tag|Broker-dealer}} |