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UpsideTrader found this 5/2/2009 on ft.com

illustration of dominoes depicting the role of JP Morgan in the financial crisis In the 1990s, a young team at Wall Street investment bank JP Morgan pioneered a new way of making money – credit derivatives. Within a decade, the market for these exotic securities had exploded to more than ...