Such a service would appeal to the many phone users who prefer to text rather than exchange emails as well as people with less sophisticated cellphones.
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"We've quite strongly have demanded there should be a formal hearing, rather than an exchange of letters so the community can have its say, " Mr Skill said.
This is the value of an exchange-rate peg in an economy such as Hong Kong's: adjustment to external shocks takes place through changes to domestic prices, rather than through exchange-rate levels.
The relationship must be cultivated into a partnership rather than merely an exchange of capital, Belfer said.
Rather than buying foreign exchange, policymakers can keep it out of the country, sequestering it abroad like a non-native species.
Collateralized debt obligations (CDO) and other structured finance products trade over-the-counter rather than on an exchange, at least in the United States.
Authorities have been using monetary policy instruments to cool inflation rather than adjust an exchange rate which many consider to be undervalued.
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On the forefront will be issues like nationalism, as a Nasdaq-NYSE tie-up would have an American rather than a German exchange gobble up the storied NYSE.
In Britain, for instance, deals struck over the telephone rather than through the exchange's computers must still be reported to the exchange and published, albeit with a delay for big trades.
The lack of progress on reforms and the reporting of price-sensitive information from companies like San Miguel through the media rather than the stock exchange is likely to deter all but the most courageous of investors.
The exchange rate adjusts to the economy rather than the economy adjusting to the exchange rate.
The only difference is that the Fed issues money rather than treasury bills in exchange for its purchases.
"This feels much more like attacks staged in the past by other al Qaeda affiliates, rather than another attempt to exchange hostages for ransom, as has often been AQIM's practice, " said Andrew Lebovich, a long-time observer of AQIM currently in Senegal.
But the Neiman shows the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, rather than his customary jock kitsch, and the over-all feel of the offices is boardroom, not locker room.
It is a packet-switched technology, and only consumes network resources when data is being transmitted, so it is widely expected that customers will be charged for the amount of data they exchange, rather than the time they spend logged on to the network.
The decline in Shanghai is mainly a regional exchange issue, rather than a broader trend with China shares and corporate earnings.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly quoted Julie Chandler, who was referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission, rather than another government agency.
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Rather than moving toward more flexibility in exchange rates within Europe the economic arguments suggest less flexibility and a closer integration of capital markets.
With the benefit of hindsight, most economists have been critical of the August 2001 deal for Argentina, which simply postponed rather than prevented the collapse of the exchange-rate peg with the dollar and, with it, the country's banking system.
Under such plans, the companies would exchange bundles of generating plants rather than sell on the open market.
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The major difference is that you need a brokerage account to trade them because shares trade on a stock exchange during the day, rather than at the end of the day with a fund company.
Further you may be faced with a pile of paper that will land on your mat, from the local authority in advance of a telephone adjudication with a solicitor (always the best choice rather than simply having the thing dealt with by exchange of correspondence, though you have the choice).
In the run-up to entry, the Bank of England would have to target the exchange rate against the euro, rather than inflation.
Rather than being a safe place to keep money, the exchange rate of Bitcoins relative to other global currencies has fluctuated wildly.
Rather than flash the order for a potential mate, the exchange can route it through the dark pools that expressed indications of interest.
Valuations can also be thrown off by input errors, such as buying a U.S. stock on a Canadian exchange and pricing the results in USD rather than Canadian dollars.
That sort of exchange - one of community camaraderie, rather than political innuendo - is not one people expect to hear in Washington DC, a city known more for monuments and memorials than mellow corner bars.
To avoid making enemies among the brokerages who run Hong Kong's exchange, Boom chose to work through them rather than buy its own seat.
Bellini's profile portrait of Mehmet sniffing a rose is a masterpiece of cross-cultural exchange: Mehmet appears as a civilised ruler rather than a threat, yet in its colour and composition this portrait is unmistakably the handiwork of a Venetian master, testament to the city's artistic pre-eminence.
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