[ripe-chair-discuss] the nationality of walls

On 14 May 2020, at 11:16, Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao@bondis.org> wrote:

You lost me, what is a Spanish wall? First I hear the term and google is not being helpful

I expect it’s the same thing as a Chinese wall: Chinese wall noun (often in pl) The strict demarcation barrier which must exist between eg the corporate finance and investment advisory departments of a bank, etc in order to ensure that privileged information available to one department is not available to the other and so prevent conflicts of interest from arising