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Big Bang Memories: 1986 revisited

Financial News has spent the last week speaking with industry veterans about their memories of Big Bang. Today, we publish their thoughts on the impact of deregulation on the UK's financial markets, the best things it brought to the City, and the worst...

Twenty five years ago this week, Nick Berry occupied the number one spot in the UK charts, Norwich City sat at the summit of the old First Division and the looming onset of deregulation was at the top of the agenda for London’s financial firms.

The Big Bang, as it came to be known, heralded arguably the biggest structural shift to the UK's financial markets in living memory.

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