The merchant needs to know which broker has done the job for him. We - as a broker also need to know that the deal is ours or not- It can not be a complete surprise to us that despite our signed contract and communications to that point - that the deal was not ours. MY RULES OF FAIR PLAY say that we need to be kept up to date on status of deals. We worked too hard on this deal to take away nothing. I would be afraid to submit deals to you in the future if I were to believe that you would just hand then to another broker-and not give us any warning that our submission was kicked out. Remember its just not the underwriter who builds a relationship with merchant-but the broker as well. The merchant in this case thought that we did the deal for him-for better or worst- and I suspect worst.