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Over a career that is now longer than he cares to admit, Underarm has seen quite a few investment banks come and go.

He was in Hong Kong in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis, when Peregrine Investments collapsed due to an unhedged US$265 million loan to an Indonesian taxi company called Steady

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