Word: thain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those on competing markets. That's got U.S. rivals in a spin. As overseas firms bypass New York to trade on AIM - which now lists more than 300 foreign companies, one-fifth of them from the U.S. - it has faced accusations of lax standards. In January, NYSE CEO John Thain claimed AIM "did not have any standards at all, and anyone could list." A month later, Roel Campos, a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded AIM a "casino," with 30% of new firms "gone in a year." (He later said his remarks...
...panel, entitled “Finding Balance in the Global Economy,” was chaired by Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf. Other participants included Palaniappan Chidambaram, the Indian finance minister; John A. Thain, chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange; and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt...
Carter, 64, said that in his new role he will be responsible for ensuring the independence of the board while simultaneously collaborating with other constituencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), NYSE chief executive ??officer John A. Thain, member companies, and NYSE customers...
...idea of how different things are at the New York Stock Exchange these days, peek inside the office of CEO John Thain, the M.I.T. grad and former president of Goldman Sachs who had to be talked into taking the job after former CEO and chairman Richard Grasso's bitter departure amid an excessive-pay flap and charges of board cronyism. Grasso, a passionate stock-exchange lifer, famously littered his office with several hundred treasured mementos from the companies whose shares are traded at the exchange. The more clinical Thain, 49, displays mainly his own collection of modern...
...with his family?) Partly because of the stringent law, fewer foreign firms are listing shares in New York . New international listings have fallen by half since 2001 and may halve again this year. Indeed, the London Stock Exchange is using rising U.S. compliance costs as a marketing tool. John Thain, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, allows that reforms have "come at a cost." Meanwhile, lawyers for HealthSouth founder...