STANDARD CHARTERED: The bank posted impressive results and is aggressively
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It is one of the bigger ironies of the financial crisis: the bank that specializes in the world’s riskiest markets has so far emerged with its reputation and its balance sheet intact. Of course, luck plays its part. Standard Chartered has been helped by the fact that, for once, this financial crisis did not originate in the emerging markets.