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AIM, in addition, is facing what is likely to be a difficult year for its image. After the flood of new arrivals on the junior market — nearly 500 floated on AIM this year, raising £6 billion — it is unavoidable that a few bad apples will have got through due diligence. There are almost certain to be a number of AIM failures in the coming months. Add in the apparent fraud at AIM-listed Langbar International, where £365 million has mysteriously gone missing, and the market — a huge success in many ways — is going to be under scrutiny as never before.