After NASD purchased the Amex in 1999, the exchange fought successfully to keep its own regulatory operation separate.
"Obviously there have been some slip-ups, but in general, they have a pretty good regulatory operation," said Annette Nazareth, the S.E.C.'s director for market regulation.
The Amex's regulatory operation has done such a horrible job that it is all but certain that some of its employees -- and possibly the exchange itself -- will face disciplinary action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We have a very established broadcasting regulatory operation, and compared to taking on the regulation of the Royal Mail, in context of privatisation, or conducting a major auction, it would be comparatively easy," Richards told the Royal Television Society Cambridge convention.
What reforms are needed in the Fed's own regulatory operations?
Pfizer, based in New York, will also combine its Lee's Summit clinical development and regulatory operations with similar operations elsewhere, primarily in Groton, Conn, a Pfizer spokesman, Bob Fauteux, said.
In 1996, she became director of the agency's largest region, overseeing enforcement and regulatory operations in 14 states and the District of Columbia, with offices in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
Calls for separating the Big Board's regulatory operations from its stock trading business have increased in recent years, in part because the exchange's major competitor in regulation, NASD, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers, is seen as more aggressive.
And as the Fed's vice chairman, Mr. Ferguson oversaw the central bank's regulatory operations in the period leading up to the financial crisis, when it failed to check the excesses of the financial industry.
Where Mr Mohan rose to the hot seat after editing The Sun's showbusiness page, Mr Dinsmore, who worked his first freelance shift at The Scottish Sun 22 years ago, has a grounding in the newspaper group's managerial and regulatory operations, overseeing paper buying and syndication in his previous role.
"There is some legal dispute about our ability to look at records and pharmacies and it is the records that help us determine whether a pharmacy is acting as a pharmacy or as a manufacturer," Deborah M. Autor, the F.D.A.'s deputy commissioner for global regulatory operations and policy, said in a phone call with journalists.
