Lehman Brothers The defunct US investment bank is beginning the process of liquidiating its remaining assets to repay creditors
Move shows confusion after Lehman’s collapse and the risks of bilateral trading that left counterparties scrambling to cover obligations
The Bundesbank has agreed to sell to Lone Star, in a move that marks the latest sign of the growing appetite for distressed real estate debt
The bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers believes that Archstone is worth $1bn more in equity value than its current sale price and is working to mount a bid
Interactive timeline: View a blow by blow account of the demise of one of the biggest Wall Street banks, and the players involved
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
