[Kevin Henry-Seacoast]

I will say this again....regulation in any part of capital markets is inevitable. They are put in place to protect the customer first, the stability of the markets, and then the stability of the market participants/institutions. Institutions are far better off with a federal regulation as it is easier to manage then regulations for each different state. Brokers and referral partner are better off with federal regulation as state regulation management comes with a higher cost to manage. If institutions are forced to manage regulations from each different state, the cost of managing the regulations will cut margins...thus forcing them to cut costs internally and to referral partners.