Morning Scan: TD Ameritrade Buying Scottrade; Visa and Blockchain

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Discount brokers to merge: TD Ameritrade is buying rival Scottrade for $4 billion. The combined company will have $944 billion in client assets and execute 600,000 client trades a day. TD says the merger will enable the two companies to cut costs by $450 million a year. Wall Street Journal, Financial Times Wall Street Journal ...