At the time fairly new to the system, Mantek brought index cards with him cheat sheets that guided his interaction with Steiner.

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Croesus first wrote about Markit in August 2007 (see "Profiting from the Meltdown"), in a story about how a few major firms created an index of subprime mortgages (ABX) and one for leveraged loans on their balance sheets that needed to be hedged (LCDX).

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