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Up to data firms to fight a rank injustice on league tables

Comment: The Financial Conduct Authority is right to highlight the problem but the firms supplying data could do a lot to fix it

Up to data firms to fight a rank injustice on league tables
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The Financial Conduct Authority is quite right that investment banking league tables are easy to game.

The industry knows it. Bankers grumble that everyone else manipulates the tables to show their own firm in a good light - then deny that they do it themselves.

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