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The picture on top left is the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) now. The one to the right is what the TSE looked like in 1990 - prior to technological innovations that have transformed it into a more efficient platform for issuers, traders, and investors.  The complexion of the the NYSE floor and other exchanges world-wide are evolving in a similar fashion.

 

Financial Market Reform

 

Since 1992, Cliff has worked as a consultant in financial market reform projects.  He began his international work with the International Privatization Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Projects involving a wide range of legal systems and cultures in a large number of foreign financial markets are mostly funded by the World Bank, the ADB and USAID.  The project goals were to develop and adopt international standards and best practices and to improve transparency and efficiency in the operations and regulation of a number of foreign financial markets in their government supervisory and regulatory authorities, stock exchanges, depositories, brokerage companies, mutual funds, and issuers.  Cliff Kennedy uses IOSCO, OECD, European Directives and other international standards and best practices that are continuously updated.  In his project consultancies, Cliff Kennedy also has uses his extensive regulatory, enforcement, investigation and litigation experience gained as a former attorney and as a Regional Director with the US SEC.  The financial markets that have used Cliff's work include Russia, India, Viet Nam, Philippines, Ukraine, Croatia, Macedonia, Lithuania, and Pakistan,