In blunt language, the official, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said that the "specific protocol on financial services" requested by Prime Minister David Cameron would have presented "a risk to the integrity of the internal market," as the European Union's vast trading area is known, and was thus untenable.
Earlier this month, Benjamin Lawsky, the superintendent of financial services for New York, requested applications from virtual-currency exchanges interested in doing business in the state.
Her agency, also owned by Omnicom, helped produce the financial services ad at the request of a client, the Charles Schwab Corporation, which GSD&M shares with BBDO.
But marks for products and services in the technology sector are still slumping, even though applications over all started to increase again". Financial services companies filed fewer requests in 2003 for trademarks on mutual funds, investment management and securities brokerage services.
Mr. Anderson, who is the founder and chief executive of Enterprise Engineering Inc., a computer software and services company that works with financial services firms, refused a police request to take a Breathalyzer test, the police said.
Instead, his team (led in this case by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who from 1999 to 2002 made more than $18 million working for a financial services firm) wore down his request to a simpler directive: Draw up a plan for restructuring Citibank.
Two years ago, his team tried to extract data from an iPad at the request of a financial services company that wanted to test the security of the tablets before offering them to employees.
For example, one content search task requested locating a financial services company out of a list of business names.
In addition, the EU is requesting more commitments on financial services in nearly every country.
David Popp, a spokesman for Hensarling on the financial services committee, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 1996, a client's enthusiastic response to a requested report on salaries at financial services companies encouraged the partners to sell the report to other companies.
