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Compliance Department

The department within a brokerage firm that oversees the trading and market-making activities of the firm.

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It ensures that the employees and officers of the firm are abiding by the rules and regulations of the SEC.

See also: Agent, Broker-Dealer, Dealer, Discount Broker, Full Service Broker, Market Maker, SEC

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compliance department

Securities exchange staff who are charged with ensuring that activity on the exchange complies with the rules of the exchange and those of the SEC.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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