market leader in interest rate swaps. There was a natural role for a blue-chip corporation with the highest credit rating to stand in the middle of swaps and long-term options and the other risk-spawning innovations. The traits required of this corporation were that it not be a bank-and thus subject to bank regulation, and the need to reserve capital against risky assets-and that it be willing and able to bury exotic risks on its
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