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...part of the London Stock Exchange, this market for small companies deliberately set out to cut to an absolute minimum the paperwork for listing firms. 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. But in the first eight months of this year, only 85 companies listed on AIM, compared with...
...Nancy C. Selvage, director of the Ceramics Program, which is overseen by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, says the University is well-suited to be a part of this project. “We have an extremely good ceramics program,” she says. “People from all over the world come to work in the program, and we have a huge range of experience...
...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...