Generating buy-in for the City's pre-eminent place in European finance, however, involves more than just providing assurances over the quality of UK regulation.
Never mind that voluntary institutions often provide just those assurances.
There's no release date yet, just an assurance that this is a 2014 release, which means autumn.
As Mr. Alani put it, Iraqis today could could care less about democracy, they just want assurance that their daughters won't be raped or their sons kidnapped en route to the grocery store.
Students used to line up outside his door, angst-ridden, waiting their turn to talk to him and hear just the assurance they needed: that it would be O.K., whatever it was.
Nothing big, necessarily, just some assurance that as I embarked on a new decade, I had a clearer sense of who I was and what I was doing.
G is for Guarantee The Rugby Football Union coughed up £80m in financial assurances just to win the hosting rights, so every penny will count.
And in a sign that Mr. Obama's assurances just might not be enough, House Democratic leaders said they would push to approve Mr. Frank's bill this week.
"We just need concrete assurances from local authorities in all the places where we're trying to operate either directly or through partners, that the products that we bring in will not be stolen and that the compounds will not be looted," said Ms. Chorlton.
The Senate president, Stephen M. Sweeney, said his caucus attended only after assurances that "he's not just coming to lecture us".
