Oxfam cites Terry Smith the head of Tullett Prebon, an interdealer broker, who said he would let any of his 950 staff moved out of London ahead of the 50 percent marginal tax rate imposed by the Labour government.

FORBES: Tobin Tax Shows New Promise, or Threat

Corporate attorneys used to be the faceless "keepers of the secrets, " says Susan Friedman, head of in-house counsel coverage at insurance broker Marsh.

FORBES: OutFront

"The market saw gold going lower, and everyone panicked, " said Pradeep Unni, head of research at Richcomm Global Services, a Dubai-based commodity broker.

WSJ: Gold Plummets to Two-Year Low

"Everybody is out there trying to replace the former function of the floor broker, " says Steve Sanders, a managing director and head of business development at Interactive Brokers.

FORBES: A New Kind Of Exchange

Mr Annan has agonised in public about the UN's failure in Rwanda, when he was head of un peacekeeping, and has argued that his success as a peace-broker in Kenya last year owed something to the existence of R2P as a moral instrument.

ECONOMIST: Responsibility to protect

Business broker experts expect more owners and CEOs to consider selling their companies as baby boomers head into retirement, businesses recover from the recession and banks loosen up capital for business loans.

FORBES: 6 Factors To Consider In Selling Your Business

Howard Pitkin, head of the CT Department of Banking, has been after Hicks for investor fraud and abuse in its broker dealer business since 2007.

FORBES: Southridge Hedgie Hicks Shrugs Off Regulators Investor Fraud Suits

But Dino Kos, a former head of markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and now a strategist for Portales Partners, a broker), says the new requirement almost guarantees that an auction will not fail.

ECONOMIST: Sovereign-debt managers