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Amounts due from broker-dealers, clearing organizations, customers or related broker-dealers related to net pending trades.

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Amounts due from broker-dealers, clearing organizations, customers or related broker-dealers related to open derivative contracts.

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Amount payable to broker-dealers or clearing organizations for executing or clearing trades or orders.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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Amount of other receivables due from broker-dealer.

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Amount payable to broker-dealers and clearing organizations, including, but not limited to, securities failed-to-receive, certain deposits received for securities loaned, open transactions, and floor-brokerage payables.

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Amounts payable to customers at the balance sheet date. The term customers generally excludes other broker-dealers; persons who are principal officers, directors, and stockholders; and persons whose securities or funds are part of the regulatory net capital of the broker-dealer. Another broker-dealer's account can be classified as a customer if the account is carried as an omnibus account in compliance with certain regulations. The accounts of principal officers, directors and stockholders may be combined in the customer captions if they are not material and the combination is disclosed in the oath that is required to accompany the annual audited FOCUS Report.

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Amount of right to receive cash and securities on deposit with clearing organizations. Clearing organizations perform post trade processing and trade comparisons among numerous broker-dealers and act as settlement agents between buying and selling broker-dealers.

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Amount due from customers for fees and charges arising from transactions related to the entity's brokerage activities and operations.

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Amount receivable as the result of a fail-to-deliver. A fail-to-deliver is a securities sale to another broker-dealer that has not been delivered to buying broker-dealer by the close of business on the settlement date.

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Amount payable as the result of fail-to-receive. A fail-to-receive is a securities purchase from another broker-dealer not received from the selling broker-dealer by the close of business on the settlement date.

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