Before revision: The spreading of financial distress in capital markets and the resulting systemic risk strongly depend on the detailed structure of financial interconnections .
After revision: Reconstructing patterns of interconnections from partial information is one of the most important issues in the statistical physics of complex networks. A paramount example is provided by financial networks. In fact, the spreading and amplification of financial distress in capital markets and the resulting systemic risk strongly depend on the detailed structure of financial interconnections .