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Milestone: Enforcement Will Only Get Tougher Under New FSA Regime

MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser After four years under a shadow, the UK’s Financial Services Authority is once again being held up as a model financial regulator — both for its principles-based approach to reporting and for its ability to ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestone: Growing Chorus At Home Urges UK To Break With Brussels

MILESTONES: EUROPE By Valentina Pasquali On the tail of the European economic crisis, the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union is nearing a breaking point. While in Brussels some members are pushing for further integration, in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Canadian Carney Offers A Fresh Perspective At BofE

NEWSMAKERS: UK By Erik Heinrich Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, will have a new job next year. Post-Libor scandal, UK appoints outsider Carney Photo Credits: CARNEY: REUTERS/MARK BLINCH Starting in July, Carney will cross ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity: China, LatAm Could Boost IPOs

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt After declining sharply in 2012, initial public offerings could stage a turnround in the new year, say analysts, with China and Latin America leading the issuance. The ...

Banking

Europe And UK Relations Hit Low Tide

MILESTONES: UK/EU By Justin Keay UK and EU relations have always been tense, but their relationship has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. While headlines have focused on noisy arguments over support for struggling eurozone members or ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cross-Border Dealmaker Seeks To Exit Indonesian Deal

NEWSMAKERS: EUROPE/INDONESIA By Udayan Gupta Nathaniel Rothschild’s Indonesian mining deal in 2010 was seen as a portent of how such cross-border deals could be done. Rothschild (L) and Bakrie CEO Bobby Umar in happier days Thirty ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Investors, Not Banks, Will Feel Brunt Of Tobin Tax

MILESTONES: EU By Anita Hawser The proposed Tobin Tax, or financial transaction tax (FTT), is a political hot potato that is being kicked around by various European countries in the wake of the global financial crisis as a means ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestone: Judging Alternatives To Libor

MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser The ongoing controversy surrounding Libor, the global benchmark interest rate used for pricing financial contracts, has sparked a wider debate about the merits of using alternative reference rates. The Bank of England ...

Banking

Western Europe

Milestone: Enforcement Will Only Get Tougher Under New FSA Regime

Milestone: Growing Chorus At Home Urges UK To Break With Brussels

Canadian Carney Offers A Fresh Perspective At BofE

Equity: China, LatAm Could Boost IPOs

Europe And UK Relations Hit Low Tide

Cross-Border Dealmaker Seeks To Exit Indonesian Deal

Investors, Not Banks, Will Feel Brunt Of Tobin Tax

Milestone: Judging Alternatives To Libor

Salon: Luigi Zingales Populist Revolt

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