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-{{a|opcoboone|}}{{quote|''Basel I had also floundered until a dinner between Paul Volcker, then Federal Reserve chairman, and Robin Leigh-Pemberton, then governor of the Bank of England, held at the governor’s private flat in September 1986, in which the UK agreed to push for an accord. The Bank recognised that, with the Big Bang of financial deregulation approaching, the “gentlemanly” way in which it had previously regulated the City was no longer fit for purpose.''
+{{a|opcobooneadventure|}}{{quote|''Basel I had also floundered until a dinner between Paul Volcker, then Federal Reserve chairman, and Robin Leigh-Pemberton, then governor of the Bank of England, held at the governor’s private flat in September 1986, in which the UK agreed to push for an accord. The Bank recognised that, with the Big Bang of financial deregulation approaching, the “gentlemanly” way in which it had previously regulated the City was no longer fit for purpose.''
 :—''Financial Times'', 23 October 2011}}
 Time travel story about a [[legal eagle]] called [[Bartholomew Gould]] who disappeared from the future without explanation and was sent back to kill the members  of [[Basel Committee on Bank Supervision|basel committee]] who sanctioned netting regulation.
+Murder of Luxembourg lawyer poisoned with pure synthetic alpha in a hotel in Majorca. Suitcase full of coupons
 The story opens in Basel in 1995, with the murder of a [[Basil A’Court]], a banking supervisor for the Central Bank of Belgiumstein. He has been poisoned with a complicated cocktail of refined, purified, tranched derivatives that would not become popular for ten years after his death.