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Lehman Brothers - Companies & Markets
Four banks are locked in discussions with the authorities to finalise details of a recapitalisation that is likely to see them commit to raising more than £35bn
Sir Fred Goodwin’s reputation has taken a battering since last year when RBS made the decision to lead a consortium that acquired Dutch bank ABN Amro for €71bn at the height of the boom
Lloyds’ offer was still 0.83 shares for each HBOS share, but there was some suggestion that there could be a new exchange ratio of between 0.6 and 0.71
The US stock market suffered its largest loss since the crash of 1987 amid panic over GM, Morgan Stanley and several big insurers, heightening speculation that the US would unveil a bank recapitalisation plan soon
The US is likely to strengthen its implicit guarantee for all bank deposits and bank debt but stop short of a formal legal guarantee, as it tries to save its banks without destroying its non-bank financial sector
Interactive feature: How do money market funds work and what are the consequences of the recent problems in the aftermath of a fund ‘breaking the buck’?
The attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, horrifying as they were, did not shake US dominance of the global political and economic system. It was Lehman’s collapse that truly marked the end of the “unipolar moment”, writes Gideon Rachman
Our collective over-emphasis on policy for the short term over long term in the era before Lehman’s fall has returned to haunt us. For the economy as a whole, however, there are seeds of prosperity, writes Glenn Hubbard
Regulators may have been given greater authority to keep banks on a tight leash. But they must actively enforce their new powers. To do this, they must have the political backing to make enemies of the banks
In the wake of revelations on how Lehman flattered its balance sheet, questions are arising about how such techniques became possible and what can be done to curb them
Lehman Brothers’ collapse left its staff hungry for a challenge that BarCap used to its advantage
The dirty secret hanging over the industry is that the type of cross-border games at the investment bank were an extreme version of what has occurred at other companies – and these games are unlikely to disappear
Lehman Brothers used inconsistent and highly subjective methods to value the problematic assets on its books, according to the Valukas report
