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Memoranda.
COO: Chief Operating Officer.
COSO: Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
CSE: Consolidated Supervised Entity.
Deloitte: Deloitte & Touche LLP, the external auditor for Bear Steams during ... including Bear Stearns, that elected to participate in the SEC's
Consolidated Supervised Entity ("CSE") program. The CSE program allowed the SEC to
supervise participating broker-dealer holding companies ... consolidated basis.
36. While Bear Steams was among the smallest of the CSE firms, it experienced rapid
growth through the 1990s. By 1992, the Company's earnings had doubled
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