It was surely no coincidence that an email exhortation to think about the “independence, objectivity and potential conflicts of interest” of vendors servicing the credit default swaps marketplace arrived in our inbox just a matter of days after Markit Group announced it was being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice about its activities in the credit-derivatives and related markets.

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