NU Online News Service, Nov. 3, 2003, 4:55 p.m. EST – National Planning Holdings Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., has introduced Electronic Order Entry, a Web-based system that independent financial advisors can use to generate disclosures, handle trades, track pending transactions and provide information for compliance officers.
National Planning, a company that owns four broker-dealers, wants to use the new order-entry system as the basis for a "paperless office" system that is scheduled to appear by June 30, 2004.