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...Oxley Act, a 2002 response to the accounting scandals that toppled Enron and WorldCom, was intended to stiffen standards of corporate governance in public firms. In reality, the cumbersome auditing requirements - not to mention the cost and time involved in complying - have put many firms off listing on U.S. stock exchanges...
...capital markets are relatively immature and not sufficiently developed to meet the capital needs of high-growth economies," says Martin Graham, director of markets at the lse. But it's not just over-reaching regulation bringing firms to London. The underwriting fees investment banks charge companies listing on the stock exchange are typically twice as high in New York than in London, according to a report published last June by Oxford-based Oxera Consulting...
...London's surging financial-sector fortunes go beyond just its booming stock markets. For evidence of that, take a look down the plush streets of Mayfair. Across town from the city's traditional financial quarter, and nestling between the art dealers and high-end jewelers, London's hedge-fund industry is quietly putting down roots. The city's share of the $1.23 trillion global industry had climbed to around 26% by June last year, up from 21% a year earlier. (In France, Europe's next largest market, assets came in at just 1.7% of the world total.) By clustering close...
...course. Efforts to unclog its congested transport network are long overdue, and Wall Street may be reenergized when proposals aimed at making it cheaper for firms to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley come into force, perhaps as early as this year. And consolidation among other exchanges - the New York Stock Exchange's $14.3 billion deal with pan-European operator Euronext is just one of a string of mergers in recent months - could make it tougher for the lse to stay ahead. For now, though, with two dozen of Broadgate Tower's floors already taking shape, it seems there's little...
...make sure we responded quickly,” Kenen said. The six-half-course secondary field in economics provides students with the opportunity to learn the basics of economics, while allowing them to pursue their main interests in a different concentration, according to Professor of Economics James H. Stock, the department chair. “We have kept the secondary concentration simple and—not surprisingly for economists—have tried to allow considerable freedom of choice,” Stock wrote in an e-mail. In the fall, the department polled students in Social Analysis...