MERLINPRIME

Securities brokerage and dealing, trade execution services, clearance and settlement services; providing custody and asset servicing facilities and reporting, financial investment research; providing financial information in the nature of market trade and quotation information for securities; trading support services in the field of financial securities, namely, trade comparison, collection, processing, tabulation, distribution, negotiation, and execution; creation, distribution and updating standard securities indices and sub-indices; automated financial services, namely, online brokerage of securities via a global computer network; providing online electronic computer databases featuring securities information via a global computer network; providing online electronic computer databases which provide subscribers with trading information concerning securities and provide institutions and individual investors with an automatic network for trading in securities