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SIB to rein in market-makers
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The City's lead regulator yesterday launched the biggest shake-
up in financial services since Big Bang. Unveiling its
wide-ranging Equity Market Review, the Securities and Investments
Board heralded further inroads into the dominance of the Stock
Exchange and reductions in the privileges of its most powerful
members, the market-makers.
In recommendations designed to complete the unfinished business
on Big Bang of the mid-1980s, the SIB has broadly sided with
criticisms from the Offic...
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: GEOFF FOSTER MENTION Big Bang to many professionals still wheeling and dealing in the City and they will cry into their beer. Twenty years ago, the cosy gentlemen's club and old trading floor of the London Stock Exchange, which housed endearing stockbroking characters with never to be
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The Economist (US)
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The Independent - London
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