DELAWARE
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22-3181095
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(State
or other
jurisdiction
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(I.R.S.
Employer
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of
incorporation)
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Identification
No.)
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PART
I.
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FINANCIAL
INFORMATION
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Item
1.
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Financial
Statements
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See
pages 3-15
|
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Item
2.
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Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
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See
pages 16-22
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Item
3.
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Quantitative
and
Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
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See
page
23
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Item
4.
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Controls
and
Procedures
|
See
page
23
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PART
II.
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OTHER
INFORMATION
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See
page 24
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September
30,
|
December
31,
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||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||||||
ASSETS
|
(unaudited)
|
(audited)
|
|||||||||
CASH
AND
EQUIVALENTS
|
$
|
5,136
|
$
|
6,508
|
|||||||
ACCOUNTS
RECEIVABLE – net of allowance for doubtful
|
|||||||||||
accounts
of $211 in 2007 and $326 in
2006
|
2,162
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1,277
|
|||||||||
DUE
FROM
CLEARING BROKER
|
511
|
495
|
|||||||||
DUE
FROM
BROKER
|
10,617
|
12,962
|
|||||||||
MARKETABLE
SECURITIES
|
7,676
|
8,757
|
|||||||||
FIXED
ASSETS - at cost (net of accumulated
depreciation)
|
2,078
|
1,998
|
|||||||||
EXCESS
OF
COST OVER NET ASSETS ACQUIRED– net
|
1,900
|
1,900
|
|||||||||
OTHER
ASSETS, including income taxes
|
1,581
|
951
|
|||||||||
TOTAL
|
$
|
31,661
|
$
|
34,848
|
|||||||
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
|
|||||||||||
LIABILITIES
|
|||||||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued
expenses
|
$
|
4,358
|
$
|
3,928
|
|||||||
Note
payable - bank
|
256
|
987
|
|||||||||
Trading
securities sold, but not yet
purchased
|
3,215
|
6,102
|
|||||||||
Net
deferred income tax
liabilities
|
761
|
528
|
|||||||||
Other
liabilities
|
1,121
|
870
|
|||||||||
Total
liabilities
|
9,711
|
12,415
|
|||||||||
COMMITMENTS
AND CONTINGENCIES
|
|||||||||||
STOCKHOLDERS’
EQUITY
|
|||||||||||
Common stock - $.01 par value; 60,000,000 shares
|
|||||||||||
authorized;
issued and
outstanding –8,392,000 shares
|
84
|
84
|
|||||||||
Additional
paid-in
capital
|
10,183
|
10,183
|
|||||||||
Retained
earnings
|
11,094
|
11,923
|
|||||||||
Accumulated
other comprehensive
income
|
589
|
243
|
|||||||||
Total
stockholders’
equity
|
21,950
|
22,433
|
|||||||||
TOTAL
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$
|
31,661
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$
|
34,848
|
|||||||
2007
|
2006
|
|||||||||
SERVICE
FEES
AND REVENUE
|
||||||||||
Market
Data
Services
|
$
|
13,945
|
$
|
16,408
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||||||
ECN
Services
|
5,919
|
11,113
|
||||||||
Broker
Dealer Commissions
(includes
|
||||||||||
$92
in 2007 and $55 in 2006 from
related party)
|
5,980
|
5,321
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||||||||
Total
|
25,844
|
32,842
|
||||||||
COSTS,
EXPENSES AND OTHER:
|
||||||||||
Direct
operating costs (includes depreciation and
amortization
|
||||||||||
of
$485,000 and $445,000 in 2007 and 2006,
respectively)
|
19,603
|
23,882
|
||||||||
Selling
and administrative expenses (includes depreciation
and
|
||||||||||
amortization
of $66,000 and $69,000 in 2007 and 2006,
respectively)
|
8,065
|
8,027
|
||||||||
Rent
expense – related
party
|
473
|
473
|
||||||||
Marketing
and advertising
|
181
|
162
|
||||||||
Gain
on arbitrage trading
|
(1,271
|
)
|
(973
|
)
|
||||||
Gain
on sale of marketable securities – Innodata and Edgar
Online
|
-
|
(1,777
|
)
|
|||||||
Interest
income
|
(360
|
)
|
(282
|
)
|
||||||
Interest
expense
|
535
|
265
|
||||||||
Total
|
27,226
|
29,777
|
||||||||
(LOSS)
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES
|
(1,382
|
)
|
3,065
|
|||||||
INCOME
TAXES
(BENEFIT) EXPENSE
|
(553
|
)
|
1,226
|
|||||||
NET
(LOSS)
INCOME
|
$
|
(829
|
)
|
$
|
1,839
|
|||||
BASIC
AND
DILUTED NET (LOSS) INCOME PER SHARE
|
$(.10
|
)
|
$.22
|
|||||||
WEIGHTED
AVERAGE NUMBER OF SHARES OUTSTANDING
|
8,392
|
8,379
|
||||||||
ADJUSTED
DILUTIVE SHARES OUTSTANDING
|
8,392
|
8,389
|
||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
|||||||||||
SERVICE
FEES
AND REVENUE
|
||||||||||||
Market
Data
Services
|
$
|
4,480
|
$
|
5,364
|
||||||||
ECN
Services
|
1,889
|
3,344
|
||||||||||
Broker-Dealer
Commissions
(includes $41 in 2007 and $31
|
||||||||||||
in
2006 from related
party)
|
2,141
|
1,615
|
||||||||||
Total
|
8,510
|
10,323
|
||||||||||
COSTS,
EXPENSES AND OTHER:
|
||||||||||||
Direct
operating costs
(includes depreciation and amortization
|
||||||||||||
of
$162,000 and $149,000 in 2007 and 2006, respectively)
|
6,470
|
7,568
|
||||||||||
Selling
and administrative
expenses (includes depreciation and
|
||||||||||||
amortization
of $20,000 and $23,000 in 2007 and 2006, respectively)
|
2,583
|
2,610
|
||||||||||
Rent expense – related party
|
158
|
158
|
||||||||||
Marketing
and
advertising
|
50
|
23
|
||||||||||
Gain
on arbitrage
trading
|
(634
|
)
|
(407
|
)
|
||||||||
Gain
on sale of marketable
securities—Innodata and Edgar Online
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-
|
(1
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)
|
|||||||||
Interest
income
|
(92
|
)
|
(75
|
)
|
||||||||
Interest
expense
|
265
|
74
|
||||||||||
Total
|
8,800
|
9,950
|
||||||||||
(LOSS)
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES
|
(290
|
)
|
373
|
|||||||||
INCOME
TAXES
(BENEFIT) EXPENSE
|
(117
|
)
|
149
|
|||||||||
NET
(LOSS)
INCOME
|
$
|
(173
|
)
|
$
|
224
|
|||||||
BASIC
AND
DILUTED NET (LOSS) INCOME PER SHARE
|
$(.02
|
)
|
$.03
|
|||||||||
WEIGHTED
AVERAGE NUMBER OF SHARES OUTSTANDING
|
8,392
|
8,379
|
||||||||||
ADJUSTED
DILUTIVE SHARES OUTSTANDING
|
8,392
|
8,410
|
||||||||||
Accumulated
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number
|
Additional
|
Other
|
Stock-
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Compre-
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
of
|
Common
|
Paid-in
|
Retained
|
Comprehensive
|
holders’
|
hensive
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares
|
Stock
|
Capital
|
Earnings
|
Income
|
Equity
|
Loss
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BALANCE,
JANUARY 1, 2007
|
8,392
|
$
|
84
|
$
|
10,183
|
$
|
11,923
|
$
|
243
|
$
|
22,433
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
loss
|
(829
|
)
|
(829
|
)
|
$
|
(829
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unrealized
gain on
marketable
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
securities
-net of taxes
|
349
|
349
|
349
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign
currency
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
translation
adjustment
|
(3
|
)
|
(3
|
)
|
(3
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comprehensive
loss
|
$
|
(483
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BALANCE,
SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
|
8,392
|
$
|
84
|
$
|
10,183
|
$
|
11,094
|
$
|
589
|
$
|
21,950
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
|||||||||
CASH
FLOWS
FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
|
||||||||||
Net
(loss) income
|
$
|
(829
|
)
|
$
|
1,839
|
|||||
Adjustments
to
reconcile net (loss) income to net cash (used in) provided
|
||||||||||
by operating activities:
|
||||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
554
|
514
|
||||||||
Tax
effect of stock options exercised
|
-
|
11
|
||||||||
Gain
on sale of Innodata and Edgar Online common stock
|
-
|
(1,777
|
)
|
|||||||
Other
|
-
|
2
|
||||||||
Changes
in
operating assets and liabilities:
|
||||||||||
Accounts
receivable and due from clearing broker
|
(901
|
)
|
(874
|
)
|
||||||
Due
from broker
|
2,345
|
(4,008
|
)
|
|||||||
Marketable
securities
|
1,663
|
3,207
|
||||||||
Other
assets
|
(612
|
)
|
415
|
|||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
|
430
|
1,396
|
||||||||
Trading
securities sold, but not yet purchased
|
(2,887
|
)
|
949
|
|||||||
Other
liabilities, including income taxes
|
99
|
(24
|
)
|
|||||||
Net
cash (used in) provided by operating activities
|
(138
|
)
|
1,650
|
|||||||
CASH
FLOWS
FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
|
||||||||||
Purchase
of
fixed assets
|
(654
|
)
|
(808
|
)
|
||||||
Investment
in
private company
|
-
|
(150
|
)
|
|||||||
Proceeds
from
sale of Innodata and Edgar Online common stock
|
-
|
1,787
|
||||||||
Net
cash (used in) provided by investing activities
|
(654
|
)
|
829
|
|||||||
CASH
FLOWS
FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
|
||||||||||
Net
payments of note payable – bank
|
(731
|
)
|
(278
|
)
|
||||||
Net
proceeds from contributions to employee savings program
|
154
|
161
|
||||||||
Purchase
of
treasury stock
|
-
|
(20
|
)
|
|||||||
Proceeds
from
exercise of stock options
|
-
|
56
|
||||||||
Net
cash used
in financing activities
|
(577
|
)
|
(81
|
)
|
||||||
EFFECT
OF
EXCHANGE RATE DIFFERENCES ON CASH
|
(3
|
)
|
(2
|
)
|
||||||
NET
(DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH
|
(1,372
|
)
|
2,396
|
|||||||
CASH
AND
EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD
|
6,508
|
4,469
|
||||||||
CASH
AND
EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD
|
$
|
5,136
|
$
|
6,865
|
||||||
SUPPLEMENTAL
DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
|
||||||||||
Cash
paid for:
|
||||||||||
Interest
|
$
|
535
|
$
|
265
|
||||||
Income
taxes
|
67
|
698
|
|
NOTES
TO
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
|
|
NINE
MONTHS
ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 AND
2006
|
1.
|
|
In
the opinion of
the Company, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial
statements contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring
items) necessary to present fairly the financial position as of September
30, 2007, and the results of operations for the three and nine month
periods ended September 30, 2007 and 2006 and cash flows for the
nine
months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006. The results of
operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 are not
necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for any other
interim period or for the full
year.
|
2.
|
|
The
Company charges
all costs incurred to establish the technological feasibility of a product
or product enhancement to research and development expense. Research
and
development expenses, included in direct operating costs, were
approximately $122,000 and $119,000 for the nine months and $41,000
and
$40,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006,
respectively.
|
3.
|
|
Marketable
securities consists of the following (in
thousands):
|
September
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
|||||||||||
Innodata
- Available
for sale securities - at market
|
$
|
1,312
|
$
|
730
|
||||||||
Arbitrage
trading
securities - at market
|
6,364
|
8,027
|
||||||||||
Marketable
securities
|
$
|
7,676
|
$
|
8,757
|
||||||||
Arbitrage
trading
securities sold but not yet purchased – at market
|
$
|
3,215
|
$
|
6,102
|
4.
|
|
The
Company has a
line of credit with a bank up to a maximum of $3 million. The
line is collateralized by the assets of the Company and is guaranteed
by
its Principal Stockholder. Interest is charged at 1.75% above
the bank’s prime rate (9.5% at September 30, 2007) and is due on
demand. The Company may borrow up to 80% of eligible market
data service receivables as defined, and is required
to maintain
a compensating balance of 10% of the outstanding loans. At
September 30, 2007, the Company had borrowings of $256,000 under
the
line. Additional borrowings available on the line of credit at
September 30, 2007 were $606,000 based on these
formulas.
|
5.
|
|
Earnings
(Loss) Per
Share--Basic earnings (loss) per share is computed based on the weighted
average number of common shares outstanding without consideration
of
potential common stock equivalents. Diluted earnings per share
are based on the weighted average number of common and potential
dilutive
common shares outstanding. There was no effect on earnings per
share as a result of potential dilution. The calculation takes
into account the shares that may be issued upon exercise of stock
options,
reduced by the shares that may be repurchased with the funds received
from
the exercise, based on the average price during the period. For the
three
and nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, the Company
had 685,000
and 1,192,000 stock options outstanding, respectively, that were
not
included in the dilutive calculation because the effect on earnings
(loss)
per share is antidilutive.
|
Three
Months
Ended
|
Nine
Months
Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
2007
|
2006
|
|||||||||||||
Net
(loss)
income
|
$
|
(173
|
)
|
$
|
224
|
$
|
(829
|
)
|
$
|
1,839
|
||||||
Weighted
average common shares outstanding
|
8,392
|
8,379
|
8,392
|
8,379
|
||||||||||||
Dilutive
effect of outstanding options
|
-
|
31
|
-
|
10
|
||||||||||||
Adjusted
for
dilutive computation
|
8,392
|
8,410
|
8,392
|
8,389
|
||||||||||||
Basic
(loss)
income per share
|
$(.02
|
)
|
$.03
|
$(.10
|
)
|
$.22
|
||||||||||
Diluted
(loss) income per share
|
$(.02
|
)
|
$.03
|
$(.10
|
)
|
$.22
|
6.
|
|
The
Company accounts
for employee stock-based compensation in accordance with SFAS 123(R),
“Share-Based Payment.” The requirements of SFAS 123(R) result in
compensation charges to the Company’s statement of operations for the fair
value of options granted to employees. At September 30, 2007,
the Company had seven stock-based employee compensation plans of
which
there were outstanding awards exercisable into 685,000 shares of
common
stock. No stock-based employee compensation cost is reflected in
the
statement of operations, as there was no vesting of outstanding stock
option awards in 2007 or 2006.
|
7.
|
|
Segment
Information--The Company is a financial services company that provides
real-time financial market data, fundamental research, charting
and
analytical services to institutional and individual investors through
dedicated telecommunication lines and the Internet. The Company
also
disseminates news and third-party database information from more
than 100
sources worldwide. The Company owns Track Data Securities Corp.
(“TDSC”), a registered securities broker-dealer and member of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc (“NASD”). The Company
provides a proprietary, fully integrated Internet-based online
trading and
market data system, proTrack, for the professional institutional
traders,
and myTrack and myTrack Pro, for the individual trader. The
Company also operates Track ECN, an electronic communications network
that
enables traders to display and match limit orders for
stocks. The Company's operations are classified in three
business segments: (1) Professional Market -- market data
services and trading, including ECN services, to the institutional
professional investment community, (2) Non-Professional Market
--
Internet-based online trading and market data services to the
non-professional individual investor community, and (3) Arbitrage
trading.
See Note 3.
|
Three
Months
|
Nine
Months
|
|||||||||||||||
Ended
September 30,
|
Ended
September 30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
2007
|
2006
|
|||||||||||||
Revenues
|
||||||||||||||||
Professional
Market
|
$
|
5,198
|
$
|
7,375
|
$
|
16,610
|
$
|
23,536
|
||||||||
Non-Professional
Market
|
3,312
|
2,948
|
9,234
|
9,306
|
||||||||||||
Total
Revenues
|
$
|
8,510
|
$
|
10,323
|
$
|
25,844
|
$
|
32,842
|
||||||||
Arbitrage
Trading – gain on sale
|
||||||||||||||||
of
marketable securities
|
$
|
634
|
$
|
407
|
$
|
1,271
|
$
|
973
|
||||||||
(Loss)
income
before unallocated
|
||||||||||||||||
amounts
and income
taxes:
|
||||||||||||||||
Professional
Market
|
$
|
(1,062
|
)
|
$
|
(376
|
)
|
$
|
(2,916
|
)
|
$
|
(852
|
)
|
||||
Non-Professional
Market
|
552
|
560
|
1,138
|
1,807
|
||||||||||||
Arbitrage
Trading (including interest)
|
387
|
346
|
905
|
821
|
||||||||||||
Unallocated
amounts:
|
||||||||||||||||
Depreciation
and
amortization
|
(185
|
)
|
(172
|
)
|
(554
|
)
|
(514
|
)
|
||||||||
Gain
on sale of Innodata and Edgar
Online
|
||||||||||||||||
common
stock
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
1,777
|
||||||||||||
Interest
income, net
|
18
|
14
|
45
|
26
|
||||||||||||
(Loss)
income
before income taxes
|
$
|
(290
|
)
|
$
|
373
|
$
|
(1,382
|
)
|
$
|
3,065
|
||||||
8.
|
|
Transactions
with
Clearing Broker and Customers--The Company conducts business through
a
clearing broker which settles all trades for the Company, on a fully
disclosed basis, on behalf of its customers. The Company earns
commissions as an introducing broker for the transactions of its
customers. In the normal course of business, the Company's
customer activities involve the execution of various customer securities
transactions. These activities may expose the Company to
off-balance-sheet risk in the event the customer or other broker
is unable
to fulfill its contracted obligations and the Company has to purchase
or
sell the financial instrument underlying the obligation at a
loss.
|
9.
|
|
Net
Capital
Requirements -- The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), NASD, and
various other regulatory agencies have stringent rules requiring
the
maintenance of specific levels of net capital by securities brokers,
including the SEC’s uniform net capital rule, which governs
TDSC. Net capital is defined as assets minus liabilities, plus
other allowable credits and qualifying subordinated borrowings
less
mandatory deductions that result from excluding assets that are
not
readily convertible into cash and from valuing other assets, such
as a
firm’s positions in securities, conservatively. Among these deductions
are
adjustments in the market value of securities to reflect the possibility
of a market decline prior to
disposition.
|
Three
Months
Ended
|
Nine
Months
Ended
|
||||||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
||||||||||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
2007
|
2006
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
(loss)
income
|
$
|
(173
|
)
|
$
|
224
|
$
|
(829
|
)
|
$
|
1,839
|
|||||||||
Unrealized
(loss)
gain on marketable
|
|||||||||||||||||||
securities-net
of taxes
|
(25
|
)
|
(125
|
)
|
349
|
186
|
|||||||||||||
Reclassification
adjustment for
|
|||||||||||||||||||
gain
on marketable
securities
|
|||||||||||||||||||
-
net of
taxes
|
(2
|
)
|
(946
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||
Foreign
currency
translation adjustment
|
(2
|
)
|
-
|
(3
|
)
|
-
|
|||||||||||||
Comprehensive
(loss)
income
|
$
|
(200
|
)
|
$
|
97
|
$
|
(483
|
)
|
$
|
1,079
|
11.
|
The
Company leases
its executive office facilities in Brooklyn from a limited partnership
owned by the Company’s Principal Stockholder and members of his
family. The Company paid the partnership rent of $158,000 for
the three months and $473,000 for the nine months ended September
30, 2007
and 2006, respectively. The lease provided for the Company to
pay $630,000 per annum through April 1, 2006, which the Company believes
approximates a fair market value rental rate. The Company is
presently paying at the same rate without a new lease. This lease
is
expected to be renewed for another one-year
period.
|
12.
|
From
time to time
the Company is subject to legal proceedings and claims, which arise,
in
the ordinary course of its business. In the opinion of management,
the
amount of ultimate liability with respect to these actions will not
materially affect the Company’s financial position or results of
operations.
|
13.
|
In
May 2006, the
Company purchased a non-dilutable 15% interest in SFB Market Systems,
Inc.
(“SFB”) for $150,000 cash. SFB is a privately held company that
provides an online centralized securities symbol management system
and
related equity and option information for updating and loading master
files. The Company currently has a representative on SFB’s four member
Board of Directors. The Company accounts for its investment in
SFB under the cost method, and is included in other assets in the
balance
sheet as of September 30, 2007 and December 31,
2006.
|
14.
|
In
April 2006, the
Company’s Principal Stockholder formed a private limited partnership of
which he is the general partner for the purpose of operating a hedge
fund
for trading in certain options strategies. The Company has no financial
interest in or commitments related to, the hedge fund. The hedge
fund
opened a trading account with the Company’s broker-dealer. The Company
charged commissions to the hedge fund of $41,000 and $31,000 for
the three
months and $92,000 and $55,000 for the nine months ended September
30,
2007 and 2006, respectively.
|
15.
|
The
Company has an
employee savings program under which employees may make deposits
and
receive interest at the prime rate. As of September 30, 2007, the
Company’s CEO/CFO had savings in the program of $572,000 and received
interest of $12,000 and $33,000 during the three and nine months
ended
September 30, 2007, respectively. Amounts due to employees
under the program aggregated $900,000, which is included in other
liabilities at September 30, 2007.
|
16.
|
On
June 14, 2005,
the SEC filed a civil complaint against Barry Hertz, the Company’s
Chairman and CEO at that time, alleging violations of various provisions
of the federal securities laws in connection
with
certain transactions in the Company’s stock owned by others. Mr. Hertz
reached a settlement with the SEC in March, 2007 regarding these
charges.
Mr. Hertz consented, without admitting or denying the allegations
in the
SECs complaint, to a permanent injunction from violations of Section
10(b)
and 10b-5 of the Exchange Act and Section 17(a) of the Securities
Act of
1933, a two-year bar from serving as an officer or director of a
publicly
traded company, a two-year bar from association with a broker or
dealer,
and also agreed to pay approximately $136,000 in disgorgement, interest
and civil penalties. In May, 2007, the Board of Directors
agreed to reimburse Mr. Hertz under the indemnification provisions
of
Delaware law, $75,000 for the disgorgement and interest portion of
the
amounts paid to the SEC by him. The Company from time to time
is subject to informal inquiries and document requests from the SEC
to
review compliance with Mr. Hertz's two-year association bar imposed
from
serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company and
from
association with a broker or dealer. On October 24, 2007,
the Company was notified by the SEC that they would be conducting
such an
inquiry and requested certain documents be provided no later than
November
7, 2007. The Company does not expect that the outcome of the
inquiry will have a material effect on its statement of financial
position
or operating results.
|
17.
|
In
October 2007, the
Company decided to close certain of its satellite offices which,
for the
most part, were communication hubs for local customers. By
moving customers to internet services or direct lines to other locations,
the majority of customers will not be affected. The remaining
lease commitments as of September 30, 2007 were approximately $200,000
extending through May 2010. The Company intends to sublet or
buy out the remaining terms of the leases. No provision for anticipated
losses was recognized in the financial statements as of September
30,
2007, as a loss was not yet
determined.
|
18.
|
The
Company has
adopted the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB")
Interpretation No. 48, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes
- an
interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109" ("FIN 48"), on January
1,
2007. FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income
taxes recognized in an enterprise's financial statements in accordance
with FASB Statement 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes," and prescribes
a
recognition threshold and measurement process for financial statement
recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to
be
taken in a tax return. FIN 48 also provides guidance on
derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting
in
interim periods, disclosure and
transition.
|
19.
|
The
preparation of
condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S.
GAAP
requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect
reported
amounts and related disclosures. Actual results could differ materially
from estimates and assumptions made. In determining its quarterly
provision for income taxes, the Company uses an estimated annual
effective
tax rate, which is based on expected annual income. Certain significant
or
unusual items are separately recognized in the quarter in which they
occur
and can be a source of variability in the effective tax rates from
quarter
to quarter.
|
PART
II.
|
OTHER
INFORMATION
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
1.
|
Legal
Proceedings. On June 14, 2005, the SEC filed a civil complaint against
Barry Hertz, the Company’s Chairman and CEO at that time, alleging
violations of various provisions of the federal securities laws in
connection with certain transactions in the Company’s stock owned by
others. Mr. Hertz reached a settlement with the SEC in March, 2007
regarding these charges. Mr. Hertz consented, without admitting or
denying
the allegations in the SECs complaint, to a permanent injunction
from
violations of Section 10(b) and 10b-5 of the Exchange Act and Section
17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, a two-year bar from serving
as an
officer or director of a publicly traded company, a two-year bar
from
association with a broker or dealer, and also agreed to pay approximately
$136,000 in disgorgement, interest and civil penalties. The
Company from time to time is subject to informal inquiries and document
requests from the SEC to review compliance with Mr. Hertz's two-year
association bar imposed from serving as an officer or director of
a
publicly traded company and from association with a broker or
dealer. On October 24, 2007, the Company was notified by
the SEC that they would be conducting such an inquiry and requested
certain documents be provided no later than November 7,
2007.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
1a.
|
Risk
Factors. There were no material changes from Risk Factors
disclosed in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2006.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
2.
|
Unregistered
Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
Number
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
of
Shares
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Number
of
|
Purchased
as
|
Maximum
Number
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Shares
of
|
Average
|
Part
of
|
of
Shares That
May
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Period
|
Common
Stock
|
Price
Paid
|
Publicly
|
Yet
be
Purchased
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Purchased
|
Purchased
|
Per
Share
|
Announced
Plans
|
Under
the
Plans
|
|||||||||||||||||||
July,
2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
August,
2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
September,
2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
|
None
|
None
|
993,501
|
||||||||||||||||||||
On
November 1, 2005,
the Board of Directors approved a buy back of up to 1,000,000 shares
of
the Company’s Common Stock in market or privately negotiated transactions
from time to time.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
3.
|
Defaults
upon
Senior Securities. Not Applicable
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
4.
|
Submission
of
Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. Not Applicable
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
5.
|
Other
Information. Not Applicable
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Item
6.
|
Exhibits
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
31
|
Certification
of
Martin Kaye pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) under the Securities Exchange
Act
of 1934.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
32
|
Certification
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section
906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
|
Date:
|
11/13/07
|
/s/ Martin
Kaye
|
|
Martin
Kaye
|
|||
Chief
Executive
Officer
|
|||
Principal
Financial
Officer
|