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Equities deposited in a special reserve account for the exclusive benefit of customers pursuant to regulations other than SEC Regulations and the Commodity Exchange Act.

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Minimum Net Capital Percentage of Aggregate Debit Items Arising from Client Transactions.

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Minimum Net Capital Percentage of Total Risk Margin Requirement for all positions carried in client accounts and nonclient accounts.

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Tier One Capital Ratio

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The minimum amount of Total Capital required for capital adequacy purposes under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action.

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The Total risk based capital ratio (total capital divided by risk weighted assets) required to be categorized as "well capitalized", in the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action.

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Total Capital divided by risk weighted assets as defined in the regulations.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Minimum amount of net capital required to be maintained by entity's broker-dealer subsidiary to engage in securities transactions.

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Minimum amount of net capital required to be maintained by the entity to engage in securities transactions.

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