September 14 2009
Policy Chairman attends NYSE closing bell ceremony
Stuart Fraser, the Chairman of the Policy and Resources
Committee at the City of London Corporation, attended the closing
bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange today.
The Policy Chairman was joined by the Mayor of London Boris
Johnson and Chief Executive Officer of NYSE-Euronext Duncan
Niederauer at the prestigious event. Mr. Fraser and Mayor Johnson
rang the closing bell together to signal the end of trading at the
exchange.
The Policy Chairman is scheduled to attend a series of
high-profile meetings with the New York business community to help
strengthen ties between the two cities.
He also visited the flagship Disney store yesterday (13
September) after The Walt Disney Company recently signed a deal
with the City of London, Oxford Street and Regent Street to provide
this year’s Christmas lights across the capital. The lights will be
themed around Disney’s new film version of Charles Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol, which will have its world premiere in London on
Tuesday 3 November.
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About the City of London Corporation:
The City of London Corporation is a uniquely diverse organisation.
It supports and promotes the City as the world leader in
international finance and business services and provides local
services and policing for those working in, living in and visiting
the Square Mile. It also provides valued services to London and the
nation. These include the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School
of Music & Drama; the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery and
London Metropolitan Archive; a range of education provision
(including three City Academies); five Thames bridges (including
Tower Bridge and the Millennium Bridge); the Central Criminal Court
at Old Bailey; over 10,000 acres of open spaces (including
Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest), and three wholesale food
markets. It is also London’s Port Health Authority and runs the
Animal Reception Centre at Heathrow. It works in partnership with
neighbouring boroughs on the regeneration of surrounding areas and
the City Bridge Trust, which it oversees, donates more than £15m to
charity annually.
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