Welcome to the seventh in the series of our Financial Services briefing programme, entitled Focus on restructuring: The drivers shaping the financial services sector. This briefing, written in association with the Economist Intelligence Unit, examines the wider issues behind the increasing focus on restructuring within the global financial services sector. The research effort for this briefing comprised two key global initiatives:

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