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Paul Mazzola, Lecturer Banking and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong

Fuelled by hope and fear, cryptocurrency markets are primed for contagion

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Financial contagions can be triggered easily, if conditions are right. First one financial institution falls and then others follow, like a chain of falling dominoes.

The cinder that sparked the global financial crisis in 2007 is considered by many to have been a March 14 briefing by executives of the Lehman Brothers’ investment bank.

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