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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. | ||
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===The [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]]=== | ===The [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]]=== | ||
The most famous [[torpidity]] of all is the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Industry Associations]], an august body comprising personnel from usually-sworn-enemy organisations like [[ISDA]], [[ICMA]], [[ISLA]] and [[FIA]], who convened for a beautiful moment of no-mans-land-Christmas-football in 2015 to formulate the [[Article 15 SFTR disclosure document]], a fifteen-page, 5,000 word exercise in stating the bleeding obvious. | 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 — is a “[[torpidity]]”. The most famous [[torpidity]] of all is the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Industry Associations]], an august body comprising personnel from usually-sworn-enemy organisations like [[ISDA]], [[ICMA]], [[ISLA]] and [[FIA]], who convened for a beautiful moment of no-mans-land-Christmas-football in 2015 to formulate the [[Article 15 SFTR disclosure document]], a fifteen-page, 5,000 word exercise in stating the bleeding obvious.<ref>Namely, that [[title transfer]] arrangements are arrangements involving ''the [[Title transfer|transfer of title]]''.</ref> | ||
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