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*'''[[UK Finance]]''': The artist formerly known as the [[British Bankers’ Association]]. Their main contribution to the world of finance was, ah, [[LIBOR]]. Oh dear. Oh, dear, oh dear. Now they don’t touch interbank rates with a barge-pole — no-one would let them even if they wanted to — so they restrict their activities to “enhanc[ing] competitiveness, support[ing] customers and facilitating] innovation”. So that’s nice.
*'''[[UK Finance]]''': The artist formerly known as the [[British Bankers’ Association]]. Their main contribution to the world of finance was, ah, [[LIBOR]]. Oh dear. Oh, dear, oh dear. Now they don’t touch interbank rates with a barge-pole — no-one would let them even if they wanted to — so they restrict their activities to “enhanc[ing] competitiveness, support[ing] customers and facilitating] innovation”. So that’s nice.


Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of [[industry association]]s — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together<ref>Such as drafting a standard disclosure notice that stock lenders could send to each other advising themselves that their title transfer arrangements involve the transfer of title — is a [[torpidity]].
Fun fact: the [[collective noun]] for a group of [[industry association]]s — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together<ref>Such as drafting a standard disclosure notice that [[Stock lending|stock lenders]] could send to each other advising themselves that their [[title transfer]] arrangements are arrangements involving the [[Title transfer|transfer of title]]</ref> — is a [[torpidity]].


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Those self-appointed keeper of the various flames of the different cottages that make up our industry. Traditionally thought of as bland, sleepy places, they are from time to time cast into the terrible glare of publicity, which generally doesn’t play out too well for them.

Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of industry associations — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together[1] — is a “torpidity”.

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  1. Such as drafting a standard disclosure notice that stock lenders could send to each other advising themselves that their title transfer arrangements are arrangements involving the transfer of title