Winter 2008-2009
2008 Research Review
An overview of the activities of the City of London's research
programme during 2008. This document reviews all publications under
five key headings: London and the UK Economy; City Industries;
Competitiveness; Financial Regulation; and Employment &
Regeneration.
An Assessment of the City’s ICT Infrastructure
The City of London have commissioned SAMI Consulting to provide
insight into the attractiveness to business of the City of London
and its fringes in terms of its provision of ICT infrastructure,
following on from "The City of London ICT Infrastructure Review”
published in 2001 (the last piece of
research to be published on the network infrastructure of the
Square Mile). There have been many changes in the IT &
Telecoms industry since this time, and a number of strategic
issues need to be addressed relating to new forms of technology
by the City. This report will study existing ICT infrastructure
and the future ICT requirements of businesses in the Square Mile
and its immediate fringes.
Assessing the effectiveness of enforcement and regulation
The City of London Corporation, the London Investment Banking
Association (LIBA), and other stakeholders have commissioned a
piece of research with the aim of contributing to the current
debate on the effectiveness of enforcement and capital market
regulation in different countries.
Both recent and ongoing developments in capital markets stemming
from the sub-prime crisis, and moves by some regulatory authorities
to consider mutual recognition of comparable regulatory regimes
form the background to this project. The former bring to
light market and regulatory failures of a magnitude likely to
engender a fundamental review of the approach taken to the
regulation of capital markets; the latter brings the challenge that
regulatory authorities, interested in reaching mutual recognition
agreements, need to assess other regimes on the basis that they
deliver broad equivalence in terms of outcomes, and to avoid
defaulting to measures of regulatory inputs. The purpose of this
study is to help to shape the debate on these two issues.