At a meeting in Basel on March 20th the International Association of Insurance Supervisors IAISS) reassured industry observers that it would no longer consider applying an additional "systemic risk" capital charge to the entire balance-sheet of these big insurers.
It was an attempt to reassure industry and finance that the populist assaults on unjustified pay, bonuses and share options – not least his own assaults – do not mean that Britain is going to embrace the wider hostility to capitalism entrenched in much of France.
Officials of the Clinton Administration seemed to go to great lengths to reassure industry participants -- including a reformed hacker turned security consultant who went by the Internet nickname "Mudge" during his hacker days -- that there was no intention to impose new regulations on them that could impede the growth of the Web.
For its part, FDA recognizes that uncertainty and is seeking to reassure industry that it will not put undue stress on pharmacogenomics data, but it is also asking companies to voluntarily submit pharmacogenomic data so that the agency's scientists can use it to get up to speed on the science.
"Cameron needs to take charge, decide whose side he's on and reassure industry and investors that John Hayes won't go over their heads and make policy over the phone to the Daily Mail".
We want to reassure the industry that the retail price we charge for Morrisons milk reflects the highly competitive retail market.
The gain for the biotech index comes on top of a 6.31percentt rise on Wednesday after President Clinton reassured the industry that gene discoveries could be patented.
While it is not unusual for Sir Jeremy to meet leading international business figures its timing suggests that it may have been called to reassure the industry of top level Government support for the plans for exploratory drilling in Balcombe - plans that were causing widespread public opposition at the time.
Other firms who have eyed franchises are aghast at the scale of winning bids, and the Department for Transport has had to reassure the industry that it does not expect such sums again, as it struggles to keep enough participants to make the battered franchising system viable.
Seb Berry, head of public affairs at the UK's largest solar company, Solarcentury, said they would campaign against the proposals: "The minister tried to reassure the industry yesterday that he supported this sector and valued our investment, jobs, innovation and rapid growth.
