Deceit to get a financial centre working again (9)
I believe the answer is:
mendacity
'deceit to get a financial centre working again' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'deceit to get a financial centre' is the wordplay.
'deceit' becomes 'mend' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to get' says to put letters next to each other.
'financial centre' becomes 'city'.
'mend'+'a'+'city'='MENDACITY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mendacity that I've seen before include "Lying" , "Untruthfulness" , "Quality or habit of telling lies or being deceitful" .)