He said the models proposed would attract funding from private markets, but with a regulator maintaining control of issues such as rents.

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Barristers cannot opt out of Bar Council control and choose another regulator instead.

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What News Corp. has lost however by transferring authority over to a new regulator is significant, effectively forfeiting control over potential concessions and submitting themselves to the intense scrutiny from a new regulatory body that may not be as accommodating as Hunt, who green-lit the acquisition as early as March.

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Banks and governments alike would struggle to give up control to a distant banking regulator that might, for instance, tell national champions to reduce their exposures to domestic housing markets or make fewer loans to small businesses in order to cut risk.

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The report recommended the creation of new social enterprise landlord with a leasehold interest in housing executive stock, a new strategic housing authority which would own and control the stock, and an independent housing regulator responsible for rent setting.

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This month a Shanghai banking regulator disclosed that the Ministry of Finance is drafting rules to control the financing subsidiaries of local governments.

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Between them, a tougher regulator and an efficient asset-sales agency quickly brought the problem under control.

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The Fed is considered a world-class regulator, and its intervention sends a sign to markets that the government has a crisis under control.

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