A “desk” or station where the transactions for buying and selling of securities occur.

Also known a trading desks, dealing desks represent a human intermediary between the order placement and order execution. Dealing or trading desks usually exist to make sure the risk exposure as a counterparty is managed.

Processing trades without a dealing desk is referred to as Straight Through Processing (STP)

 

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