The way to prevent American regulatory creep

This article published by the Financial Times on Thursday 12 October says that the United States may have taken a backward step in financial regulation.

"In the year before Sarbanes-Oxley, 59 per cent of global initial public offerings were in New York and 9 per cent in London. So far this year, just 6 per cent were in New York and a quarter in London, the UK's shadow chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne says.

"The damage is not limited to the US. Because of international regulatory creep

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