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Back in the machine – opportunity and threats amid much-changed debt markets

Jaishree Kalia
Jaishree Kalia · 1 May 2014 · 41 min read
Financial services Magic Circle

After years in the post-Lehman doldrums, the finance markets are springing back to life. Legal Business assesses the forces powering the upgraded ‘Doomsday machine’

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