"We sense that the supervisory authorities want this negative capital markets noise from Lehman Brothers to be dialed down, " said David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights.

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Under the new rules, network service providers will also be required to "instantly stop the transmission of illegal information once it is spotted" by deleting the posts and saving the records "before reporting to supervisory authorities".

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"Barclays has fully collaborated with the supervisory authorities and has been completely transparent throughout the process, " a spokesman for the bank said, adding that it had put measures in place to make sure such an incident would never happen again.

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Insofar as there are only approximately 20-25 sufficiently trained Shariah authorities, each of these exclusive club members sits on dozens of the Shariah supervisory boards around the world.

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