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Brave new world: how the banks are shaping up

Investment banking heads complain they now need to spend a significant part of their time focusing on regulatory issues.

No wonder: some of the new derivatives regulation - forcing banks to trade contracts in public exchanges - could take up to two years for one bank to do the paperwork; Morgan Stanley says it will cost it 100 years of man hours.

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