Word: overseen
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...Monday world markets seemed to endorse the initiative with a positive fillip. Though the specific goals, attendees, and even exact date and venue of such a meeting have yet to be determined, the mere agreement by U.S. and European leaders to update the Bretton Woods system - which has overseen international finance for the past 64 years - reaffirmed hopes that a collective, long-term approach to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression...
...between small depositors who have managed their money carefully and large, institutional banks that have gambled and lost is playing out across the American economy. So far, Bair has worried about Main Street while working overtime to limit the damage on Wall Street. In the past month, she's overseen the "resolution" (meaning, in a banker's lexicon, the "failure and sale") of the country's sixth largest bank, Washington Mutual, and helped negotiate the forced sale of superregional Wachovia bank to Citi (only to see the deal, in an embarrassing turn, break down when Wells Fargo snatched up Wachovia...
...part of the London Stock Exchange, this market for small companies deliberately set out to cut the paperwork for listing firms to an absolute minimum. There's no need, say, for bulky official prospectuses before a stock is listed on AIM, and the market is overseen not by official regulators but by brokerage firms called "nomads," which are responsible for the new issues. For years, AIM was a fabulous growth story, attracting more than 2,500 companies from around the globe - and brickbats from jealous rivals, especially in the U.S. One top official at the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...critically endangered greater bamboo lemur, however, is far from alone. Thanks to deforestation, expanding human settlements, hunting and the slow burn of climate change, more mammals may be endangered today than ever before. According to a worldwide assessment overseen by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and published Oct. 6 in Science, an estimated one out of four mammals is threatened with extinction. The populations of about half the 5,487 known species of mammals in the world, on land and in the water, are dwindling each year. "Our results paint a bleak picture of the global...
...Maybe the CFTC, a strange little agency overseen by the Congressional agricultural committees, had no business regulating OTC derivatives. But the fact that nobody regulated them, even as the business grew and migrated from banks to firms like Bear Stearns and AIG, is a big reason why the world's financial markets are in such crisis this week. Bear and AIG were bailed out in part because they were big players in the market for credit default swaps, derivatives that are meant to insure against loans gone bad. Regulators have such an unclear picture of who's on the hook...