Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and known as the PHLX for short) might think so. Founded in 1790, the exchange claims seniority status over the larger New York Stock Exchange. The PHLX provides electronic and hybrid floor-based trading of equities, options, and futures trading, as well as clearing services. The exchange trades some 7,000 stocks and 2,600 equity options. In 2008 The Nasdaq OMX Group bought the PHLX from a group of investors including Citadel Investment Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse (USA), Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS for some $695 million. The exchange is now part of the Nasdaq Transaction Services US Group.

Berkery Noyes & Company was founded in 1980 and is based in New York City. The firm has offices in Newton, San Francisco, and Wiesbaden, Germany. Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC is a boutique investment-banking firm. The firm focuses on providing merger and acquisition, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, recapitalizing, financing, and valuation advice to companies in information, publishing, and communications industries.

Monticello Capital was formed in 1997 and organized as a Virginia limited liability company in January 1998 at the height of the technology-driven expansion of the US economy. The location of its headquarters in northern Virginia, in the Washington DC metropolitan area, positions the investment bank at the center of the east coast’s high technology region. Monticello Capital’s office in New York City operated from 2003 to 2008. This firm is a specialized or “boutique” investment bank, principally focused on serving companies in high-growth mode.Monticello Capital’s clients have always spanned a wide range -- from development stage technology companies to some of the world’s largest and most prominent international conglomerates and financial institutions. Monticello Capital experienced extraordinary growth and financial harvests during the economic growth that the US enjoyed in the late 1990s and into the new century. The firm experienced growth in revenues, profitability, and marginal profitability in each year from inception through 2008, and has been profitable in every year of its corporate existence, including during the post-9/11 recession and the severe financial industry downturn in 2008-2010.

Capital Z Management company holds significant minority interests in about 15 US and European alternative investment management firms that specialize in long/short equity positions, managed futures, private equity, emerging markets, special situations, and other investment strategies. Capital Z typically acquires an ownership stake of 20% to 50% in its sponsored asset managers, takes seats on their boards of directors, and provides input on the management of their funds and on other major business decisions. Capital Z Management company also makes private equity investments through its CZR Capital and Union Square Partners affiliates.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing (GSEC) provides trade execution and clearing services to institutional clients such as corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, central banks, and other broker-dealers. Through the company's Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading affiliate, customers can trade equities, options, currencies, futures, and commodities, and view prices and positions in real time. Its services are performed both electronically and by brokers. The company also offers algorithmic trading. GSEC is active in the US, Europe, and Asia. In 2008 parent Goldman Sachs converted from an investment bank to a bank holding company.

Securities America provides a little financial security for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Operating through various subsidiaries, Securities America Financial Corporation distributes mutual funds and provides retirement planning and wealth management services through a network of nearly 2,000 independent financial advisors, as well as through financial institutions such as banks. Other products offered include stocks, bonds, options, and certificates of deposit. Securities America Financial Corporation also offers insurance and annuities from an array of providers. A subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Securities America has some $13 billion in assets under management; both firms were spun off from American Express in 2005.

Kreller Business Information Group (also operating as Kreller Business Group) provides due diligence investigation, credit investigation, and collection services on businesses around the globe. Kreller Business Information Group, Inc. also offers consulting services, focusing on helping clients reduce costs related to their use of credit information services. Kreller has provided services in some 180 countries, and its clients have included some the largest entities in the energy, technology, health care, manufacturing, and finance sectors. Former Dun & Bradstreet analysts Joseph Davidoski, Gary Mertz, Al Carl, and William Lewis founded the company in 1988.

RBC Wealth Management company offers private banking, asset management, brokerage, and estate and trust services in more than 20 countries. About half of the company's revenue, however, comes from outside Canada, where the company caters to more than 35,000 individuals and institutions. It has about $500 billion of assets under administration and about $245 billion of assets under management. RBC Wealth Management boasts more than 4,500 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers, and has about 200 offices throughout the US.

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank offers various products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking. Its Coverage and Investment Banking division monitors and develops corporate and financial institutions in France and internationally. This division’s operations comprise advisory services and equity financing operations, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate equity derivatives, and loan syndication, as well as Islamic banking. The company’s Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division involves in the trading, sale, and arbitrage of equity derivatives, index derivatives, simple or complex structured products, warrants, certificates, and indexed products. Its Fixed Income Markets division offers standard and structured market products, including commodities, debt and credit markets, foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, and treasury for corporate and financial institutions. The company’s Structured Finance division consists of originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and internationally, backed by collateral security, as well as complex and structured loans.

City Capital Corporation operates as a professional management and diversified holding company. It manages various assets and holdings, including real estate developments; self-enrichment companies; and the buying, selling, and drilling of oil and gas properties. City Capital Corporation company owns an apartment building in Cleveland, Ohio. It was formerly known as Synthetic Turf Corporation and changed its name to City Capital Corporation in December 2006.

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