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Structured Products contributes on BBC Radio 4
Structured Products featured on BBC Radio 4's 'Face the Facts' programme today, which addressed the losses faced by UK savers who bought Lehman Brothers-backed structured products.
Legal battles over a series of collapsed structured finance transactions in which a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers was the swap counterparty could produce divergent opinions from US and English courts,...
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