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  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Fall of Lehman shows how unpredictable impact of Russian sanctions could be

    The world should take lessons from 2008 and brace for a financial and economic shock

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Markets are showing signs of frothing over

    Crypto sponsorship deals could be an indicator of irrational exuberance

  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    Evergrande Real Estate Group
    Evergrande ≠ Lehman

    Barclays weighs in on whether markets should care quite so much about the struggling real estate developer.

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Due Diligence
    No guts, no glory: failed financial firm fashion Premium content

    Merchandise remnant of a pre-crisis Wall Street is given a new life by the young finance and fashion crowds

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Fashion
    Financial crisis fashion: the boom in Lehman Brothers merch

    Shirts, hats and ‘banker bags’ from now-defunct companies are fetching significant sums

  • Wednesday, 10 June, 2020
    Brooke Masters
    Homeworking makes spilling corporate secrets all the easier

    Pandemic working patterns have made some compliance and security tools less effective

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2019
    Brooke Masters
    This is a dangerous time to deregulate banks

    These days, examiners are much less inclined to put lenders in a ‘penalty box’ to prevent them from growing

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2019
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    Guest post: Collateral velocity is rebounding

    Central banks may be tightening, but collateral reuse rates are increasing, says financial plumbing expert Manmohan Singh, inadvertently easing financial conditions.

  • Friday, 29 March, 2019
    Theatre to watch in New York
    The Lehman Trilogy comes to New York — drama in thrall to the forces of finance

    Inside the Park Avenue Armory, an eerie emptiness evokes the invisible abstraction of money itself in Sam Mendes’ production

  • Friday, 2 November, 2018
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The untold career value of a little bit of luck at the outset

    Research shows young people suffer lasting harm if they graduate during a recession

  • Friday, 5 October, 2018
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Lehman lessons Premium content

    The biggest of bank failures teaches us not to avoid them but to manage them better

  • Thursday, 4 October, 2018
    FT Magazine
    Finance, the media and a catastrophic breakdown in trust

    John Authers on his ringside seat to some of the biggest financial stories of our time 

  • Monday, 17 September, 2018
    FTfmFund management
    Cartoon, September 17
  • Friday, 14 September, 2018
    FT AlphavilleGlobal Economy
    Guest Post: Crisis firefighters still uninterested in fire prevention
  • Friday, 14 September, 2018
    City InsiderPatrick Jenkins
    The mystery of the Lehman Brothers 10th anniversary bash

    Hundreds of former staff have received invitations to a shindig at a smart City venue

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    LexBanks
    Barclays preserved Lehman’s strengths while Nomura is an also-ran Premium content

    UK bank has vaulted into global elite while Japanese group is still outside it

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Waning co-operation makes next crisis more difficult to tackle

    The core banking system has been made safer but risks have been shifted elsewhere

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    Philip Stephens
    A crisis that opened the gates for China

    The implosion of the western banking system was a stroke of good fortune

  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    US financial regulation
    Former US regulators defend financial crisis actions

    Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson admit case for bank bailouts failed to sway the public

  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    John Gapper
    My naive part in Lehman’s downfall

    John Gapper: I was wrong to call for the bank to be allowed to fail

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    Lehman/US bank capital: loss cause Premium content

    The rollicking, risk-taking type of investment bank has been driven to extinction

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    Adair Turner
    After the crisis, the banks are safer but debt is a danger

    Economic recovery has been weak because of a massive growth in leverage

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    The Long View
    It’s a wonderful life Premium content

    FT’s daily newsletter on the world of investment

  • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
    Gillian Tett
    Five surprising outcomes of the 2008 financial crisis

    We learnt the dangers posed by ‘too big to fail’ banks but now they are even bigger

  • Thursday, 6 September, 2018
    Scott Freidheim
    Lehman insider: why the bank could and should have been saved

    The bank’s former chief administrative officer considers the argument for a bailout

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