Since 1999, he has served as president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center.

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During the financial crisis, the credit default swap (CDS) market, a part of the OTC derivatives market, took center stage as difficulties in financial markets began to intensify and the counterparty risk involved in a largely bilaterally cleared market became apparent.

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In creating the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report, input was collected from a variety of application spaces (servers, data center networks, high-performance computing, financial markets, carrier and cable operators, Internet exchanges, the scientific community, etc.) and from different geographic regions.

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Chinese banks remain opaque and subject to state manipulation. (You won't find them on our Fab 50.) The central government clearly wants Shanghai to emerge as an international financial center but must be willing to open up capital markets to allow this.

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Mr Fuld added that Lehman Brothers was still active in bond and share markets despite being forced from its headquarters in the Three World Financial Center following the terrorist attacks on New York two weeks ago.

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So while liquid financial markets, educated workforces and business-friendly legal environments are still indispensable ingredients of any international financial center, non-traditional factors like the state of local infrastructure systems have become an indisputable piece of the puzzle.

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