Crisis Anniversary

Review: Not just another Lehman Brothers documentary

An interviewee speaks out in 'Inside Lehman Brothers: The Whistleblowers'

There are plenty of financial crisis movies but the moral failings at the heart of ‘Inside Lehman Brothers’ are consistently compelling

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An audience with Bob Diamond: ‘People should be angry’

The former Barclays CEO finds his own reputation rehabilitated, but knows that a deep distrust of bankers remains

6 min read

There is no point waiting for the next Lehman moment

It's easy to think another debt-driven crash is coming soon, but the most consequential trends are not about the business cycle

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Ten years after Lehman, we need to balance the financial rulebook

Much post-crisis regulation is sensible but bank capital requirements could be simplified and a delicate balance is needed on personal accountability

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The 10 steps to a 2020 recession and financial crisis

These are the factors pointing to an economic downturn that will be more severe than the last

5 min read

FN Weekend: The Very Best of Financial News

A roundup of must-read news, commentary and analysis from Financial News this week

7 min read

As banks withdraw from commercial debt, private equity firms are grabbing a larger slice of the action

The new names in property lending: not the usual suspects

Debt funds and other alternative financiers have been taking UK market share from long-suffering banks

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How the financial crisis is still affecting investors

The scars have lasted even though the stock market has since soared to new highs

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Short-seller Marc Cohodes

An audience with short-seller Marc Cohodes: ‘You have to be nine-tenths insane to do it’

Burned by the financial crisis, the financier retreated to his California chicken farm — but could not stay away

6 min read

The smartphone provided the basis for Tinder and other apps which have transformed the social life of millions, pushing dating further in the direction of short-termism and away from longer-term commitment

Society’s lurch to short-termism has only accelerated since Lehman

Many false doomsday theories emerged after the bank’s collapse, but the truth is that threats exist across a broader sphere than finance

5 min read

How to make banks try harder to avoid going bust

A paper put forward to this year's Jackson Hole symposium suggests regulators should encourage banks to behave like partnerships

5 min read

Sir Paul Tucker (left) and Michael Tory

Ex-Bank of England deputy governor says ‘pay top bankers in bonds’

Sir Paul Tucker tells London audience that one big lesson has still not been learned from Lehman Brothers' fall a decade ago

Lehman Brothers building in Canary Wharf, September 11, 2008

‘It’s the bloody bankers again’: Why the public has not forgiven finance

Ten years on from the financial crisis, why are bankers still public enemy number one?

Rodgin Cohen, senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell

‘Wall Street’s trauma surgeon’ on what the crisis fixers missed

Rodgin Cohen, who advised almost every troubled institution during the crisis, has become wary of new dangers facing financial services

The Careerologist: We are no closer to a Lehman Sisters

Would a bank with more women on the board be better at avoiding a crisis? Will we ever find out?

ETF threat fizzles: Hunt for systemic risk comes up short

Financial watchdogs have yet to be convinced that exchange traded funds would wreak havoc in a severe market downturn

5 min read

The next decade in the City: Toil, trouble and tech takeovers

Brexit declines, bank M&A, new leaders and much more in the forecast for the next 10 years

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An audience with Alistair Darling: ‘Austerity was a huge mistake’

The UK’s crisis-era Chancellor of the Exchequer reflects on the rescue of RBS, the impact of austerity and how it could all so easily happen again

6 min read

Clearing houses: The new too-big-to-fail firms

The banks have been tamed, but in the derivatives markets, some allege that the systemic risk has just moved houses

7 min read

Lehman Brothers former Chairman and CEO Richard Fuld is sworn in before testifying to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission about the roots and causes of the 2008 crisis

How US investment banks left European rivals in the dust

The decade since Lehman Brothers' collapse saw US banks deal swiftly with their issues, while European lenders kicked the can down the road

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