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The City needs to make new friends but is becoming pals with Putin a step too far?

4 November 2017

9:00 AM

4 November 2017

9:00 AM

In connection with the receding possibility of a London Stock Exchange listing for Saudi Aramco, I wrote that the City authorities’ apparent eagerness to accommodate companies ‘from places not best known for their accounting standards, business probity or general attachment to democracy and the rule of law’ smacked of Brexit-driven desperation.

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