People need to be able to invest with confidence knowing everyone is playing by the same fair rules.
The theme running through the speech was fairness and he pledged to create "a Britain of fair chances for all and fair rules applied to all".
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That means consistent and fair rules for the global economy.
Clear and fair legal rules, clearly and fairly applied, consistently top potential investors' wish-lists.
Concerns have been raised that the deal has been inflated to help City meet Uefa's financial fair play rules.
From 2013-14 season Premier League clubs looking to participate in Uefa competitions will need to adhere to its financial fair play rules.
The new income from the Nike deal will help boost Manchester City's commercial revenues as UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules come into effect.
The Football League and Championship clubs have agreed to financial fair play rules, which seek to achieve a better balance between revenue and costs.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether the Greek government violated EU fair competition rules by helping Olympic Airways, the country's struggling flag-carrier.
Moyes arrives with United having sealed a series of lucrative sponsorship deals aimed at maximizing off-pitch revenue in order to be competitive under European football's financial fair play rules.
Deloitte says a combination of fair play rules and straitened economic times, which are limiting revenue growth, may see a majority of top flight clubs reporting operating losses rather than profits.
Allied to initiatives such as UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules, perhaps this will see a game in England that is balanced less precariously, and fit for a long term and sustainable future.
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"Clubs will have been reading the financial fair play rules and regulations very closely to look for areas that they can use in their favour, " added the lawyer, of the Brabners Chaffe Street firm.
Under the changes to the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure rules, firms will have to note on their websites and press releases that they will use social media to make future announcements, to ensure that all shareholders are made aware.
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Beckham is one of the world's most recognisable names, both for his sporting prowess and numerous off-pitch endorsement deals, and his pulling power could provide a valuable income stream for PSG -- which must conform to European football's financial fair play rules that restrict over-spending by club owners.
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Under the financial fair play rules, which come into force this summer but do not take full effect until 2013, teams will not be able to spend more than the income they generate from the football side of their business - which includes gate receipts, TV deals and sponsorship.
Arsenal is a club content to invest levels of money that enable it to compete for third or fourth and continual Champions League qualification until either Financial Fair Play rules reign in the spending at Chelsea and Manchester City, or Arsenal finds an owner willing to heavily invest in the club and allow for substantial annual losses for the foreseeable future.
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The solution, the regulators believe, is to press bravely ahead and impose fair-value rules for all financial instruments.
It is striking that executives at American investment banks, which have long been subject to fair-value rules, largely accept the regime.
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Life is a ruthless struggle in which there are many losers, but it takes place within a framework of unbendable and fair-minded rules.
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The agency said Netflix and Mr. Hastings seemed to run afoul of fair-disclosure rules because they hadn't previously used Facebook to announce important information and hadn't told the public the page could be such an outlet.
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As the driving force behind our economy, consumers deserve clear rules, fair treatment, and full disclosure.
The government is currently preparing a "slimmed down" version of the document, which sets out the rules for fair admissions in England.
Based on fair-value accounting rules, Goldman forced lower fire-sale marks on the industry which put some financial institutions out of business almost overnight.
In some cases, the European Commission has itself hampered the development of the single market by granting certain industries exemptions from the normal rules of fair competition.
Other government policies that have distorted financial markets, thereby undermining the EMH, include shielding credit-rating agencies from lawsuits, government-sanctioned fair-value accounting rules, enforcing credit-default swaps where there is no insurable interest, mispriced deposit insurance, government-sponsored enterprises, and the over-promotion of home ownership.
The most immediate is the mark-to-market, or so-called fair-value accounting, rules that regulators have been enforcing since the early 1990s.
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