"I will have been here for 35 years," said Mr. Sanford, who transformed Bankers Trust into a trading powerhouse.

With money he had made as a lifeguard on the beaches of Long Island, he built a trading powerhouse that had prospered for more than four decades.

These claims were hard to buy from the financial whiz who helped transform Enron from an energy company into a trading powerhouse.

In the 1980's, Mr. Milken helped build the now-collapsed Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. firm into a trading powerhouse for junk bonds.

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He also wanted to transform Merrill into a trading powerhouse, and beat Goldman Sachs at its own game.

It has a respectable sales and trading operation, but it is hardly a trading powerhouse.

Mr. Cerullo, who turned Kidder from an also-ran into a trading powerhouse, will be replaced by two co-heads of the fixed-income department.

Deutsche Börse was in advanced talks to buy NYSE Euronext in a deal that would create the world's largest trading powerhouse.

Still, Dean Witter is very much in the securities business, even though it is decidedly not an investment banking or trading powerhouse.