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Rice urges leaders to ignore the headlines: Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has some sage words of advice for politicians and business leaders as they navigate the uncertainty that afflicts the global political and economic landscape: "Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same." Numerous business leaders have written letters and otherwise made public their wishes that lawmakers in Washington would come together to solve mounting fiscal concerns. But in a world where business leaders often face the pressure of the immediacy in the form of shareholders and stock prices, many would do well to apply Rice's advice to their own corporate governance. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership
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 | Navigating Derivatives Reform
In a Tabb Group survey sponsored by State Street, as of May 2012, not one buy-side firm stated that it was fully ready in any of the five aspects of readiness for OTC derivatives reform: registration, capital/business structure, trading technology, selection of clearing brokers and electronic platforms, and reporting. Regulation is now a reality. Learn more here. |
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Branson urges business leaders to practice responsible capitalism: Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson is known for taking on challenges big and small, but the mega-marketer says leaders from firms of all sizes can help solve some of the most striking problems facing society. "Responsible capitalism is trying to think of ways in which you can invest proceeds from your company into ventures that benefit the environment," Branson says. He suggests a divide-and-conquer approach, whereby smaller companies could tackle local problems while slightly bigger companies target national issues and larger corporations battle international challenges. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Finance
(11/14)
| SmartQuotes from the Global Financial Leadership Conference |
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 | Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same."
--Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
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| How can it be that we have so much information and so little knowledge?"
--Political strategist James Carville
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| The Electoral College is a terrible system. Except it is better than every other system that has ever been proposed."
--Political strategist Karl Rove
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| You want to run the kind of company where when your employees are asked in the pub who they work for, they can answer with great pride."
--Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson
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| The news media has decided that the way to arrive at neutrality is to put two opposing voices together and let them yell at each other."
--Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
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| Large technology changes lead to uncertainty. It happens across all industries."
--GETCO Chief Executive Officer Daniel Coleman
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| A transaction tax would be a step back in the evolution of the markets."
--Edgar Perez, author of "The Speed Traders"
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| Price discovery is only one aspect of transparency. Depth of book can be just as important."
--Richard Prager, global head of trading and capital markets, BlackRock
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| The specifics of the unwinding of the Fed's assets will have a lot of novel aspects."
--Former IMF Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky
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