Trichet calls for fundamental financial-system change

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Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, has said he wants to see "fundamental" change in the finance industry post crisis.

"The financial industry needs to change fundamentally. It needs to put more emphasis on robust business models, sound balance sheets and far better management of liquidity and risk," Trichet said on Thursday.

Trichet also stressed that structural weaknesses "over and beyond the financial sector" had been revealed "even more clearly". "The financial

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