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Business Internet Marketing Online brokerage, Ameritrade, is buying Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD Waterhouse in deal valued at $2.9 billion that will create the biggest online broker in the World.If you would like to receive late breaking business news covered by AXcess News then you need to subscribe. Membership is free.

Although online brokerage has lost some of its cachet, firms have built a solid franchise. Trade Group Inc. (www.etrade.com) had its seventh straight quarter of operating profits in the first quarter, generating $19.4 million in earnings before a charge related to a change in accounting rules. Ameritrade Holding Corp. (www.ameritrade.com) had net income of $11 million in its fiscal first half, ended March 29.

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Internet Marketing Seo June 22, 2005 (AXcess News) Toronto - Online brokerage, Ameritrade, is buying Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD Waterhouse in deal valued at $2.9 billion that will create the biggest online broker in the World.Ameritrade said the combined companies would create significant value in cost savings, though layoffs were not mentioned.

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Ebook Internet Marketing Toronto-Dominion will retain 32% of the merged online brokerage firms once the deal is closed. The new company is going to be called TD Ameritrade and will carry a combined customer account base of over 5.9 million users who trade online. Ameritrade said the combined businesses will execute 239,000 trades daily.The deal comes at time online brokerages are still recovering from the dotcom bust when 30% of all trades on the NASDAQ and NYSE came from online firms. Now, that number is down to 10%.

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Business Home Internet The merger could pressure other online brokerage firms to consolidate.

Robert T. Slezak has served as a member of Web.com's Board of Directors since August 2001. From 1989 to November 1999, Slezak served as Chief Financial Officer of Ameritrade Holding Corporation, managing the accounting, finance, tax, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory reporting functions of this online brokerage firm. He currently also serves as a Director on the boards of TD Ameritrade, Matrix Bancorp, Inc., BAM! Entertainment, Inc. and Crown Financial Group, Inc. Slezak has worked as an independent management consultant since November 1999.

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