The SEC staff recently stated that commissions on the sale of insurance securities products may be paid to an insurance agency that is not a registered broker-dealer only where both: (1) a state's law requires the commissions to be paid to an insurance agency licensed in that state, and (2) a legal impediment prevents the recipient of the commissions from being, at the same time, a licensed insurance agency and a registered broker-dealer.

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