Software Chameleons Make Credit Hazards Hard To Spot
Lenders assign varied labels to borrowers
A zoo keeper poses with a Jackson's Chameleon during the annual stocktake photocall at London Zoo
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When is a software firm not a software firm? The answer, it would seem, depends very much on the whim of its private credit lenders.