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The ever bullish Michael Green from the Nomura Research Institute in Hong Kong goes further. He believes a serious supply shortage is about to emerge which will send prices back up to the crazy levels which people in the colony describe as "normal". What are we talking about? According to the Hongkong Bank, the average price of a 430 sq ft flat, in other words a flat much smaller than practically all council flats and built to far lower specifications, is now around HK$1.68m (pounds 142,000). Now that Hong Kong property prices have moved from the outer stratosphere to rest precariously on Planet Fantastic, there is much loose talk about a move back in the direction of the ridiculous. In reality, it is not choked off, it just goes elsewhere."But one area in which the new SFA chairman is acutely aware of the need for improvement is the speed, or rather lack of it, with which investigations are completed.
There has been private criticism from the City and Whitehall of the length of time the SFA is taking over its investigation into Swiss Bank Corporation's dealings during Trafalgar House's failed takeover battle for Northern Electric."If self-regulation is presented by the SFA as a better alternative to criminal prosecution then one of the things it has to do is deliver justice quicker than the courts," says Mr Durlacher.. That flies in the face of capitalism and that firms rise and fall. We cannot lay such a burden of controls, that as a result of trying to reach unattainable expectations, industry is choked off. "We may be at fault in having massaged expectations of what regulators should deliver to the extreme case that no one should be allowed to go bust. This is not just because of the complexity of products and the size and scope of firms, but also reflects greater public awareness.In the specific field of securities, the Barings collapse was a "therapeutic shock". "It rang the death knell of the cup-of-tea type of regulation in the City, where people implicitly trusted those they were regulating and just met them occasionally."The most important thing to get right, he says, is striking the balance between learning the lessons from something as dramatic as Barings and maintaining a light enough touch so that businesses can continue to flourish.