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FSA turns to US for lessons on insolvency

By Jennifer Hughes

Published: December 7 2008 19:34 | Last updated: December 7 2008 19:34

Staff from the Financial Services Authority will be flown to New York this week to examine why the US insolvency regime worked better than the British one in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse.

The slow working through of the bankruptcy in the UK is widely believed to have damaged London’s reputation as a financial centre.

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