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...For after Lehman Brothers imploded, there was a race to tighten capital and liquidity standards. And this continues, even today....
...Two days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, in September 2008, I went on an anxious walk to my local bank branch....
...An epic, searching affair, it brings Lehman and his two brothers back to witness the eventual unravelling of their company....
...The reason that derivative instruments inflicted losses on their holders was that they derived their value from residential mortgages, commercial property and other financial assets....
...Russia has become the first clear victim — the equivalent in the current crisis to Lehman Brothers in 2008 — a would-be superpower brought to its knees by forces largely beyond its control (although the...
...Talent finds its way,” says Larry McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader who is now head of US strategy, macro group, at Newedge....
...When US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, uncertainty over the creditworthiness of these complex securities led to a process of unwinding that continues today....
...(WSJ) The SEC “is seeking up to $750 million in sanctions from Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly and the estate of his deceased brother, Charles Wyly....
...According to the latest data, holdings in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan all hit new highs, while Japan’s reserves rose to $1.28 trillion. Citigroup Inc....
...Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the world’s investment bankers are still suffering from the hangover – but finding solace in a switch to private banking....
...Logic might suggest this blind faith should have wilted after Lehman Brothers failed....
...Five years on from the Lehman Brothers collapse, political and regulatory errors have made the world’s financial system even more fragile....
...Mortgage approvals have soared to their highest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers....
...Ever since Lehman Brothers collapsed almost five years ago – the most dramatic event in an unprecedented global crisis that is still reverberating today – policy makers have laboured to fix the causes of...
...It pointed out all the problems with subprime mortgages and credit derivatives several months before the crisis at Lehman Brothers....
...(Financial Times) “The remnants of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is suing the New York Giants for more than $100 million it says it is owed for a soured interest-rate swap tied to the financing of the football...
...It wasn’t until 2010 – more than a year and a half after the collapse of Lehman Brothers – that markets saw the sale of a private-label MBS deal....
...That recession had a deeper impact on global trade, with global exports dropping 26 per cent in the 12 months following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008....
...Brothers collapsed in 2008....
...(FT Alphaville)(Financial Times) “Lehman Brothers has agreed to sell Archstone, the apartment business it bought at the height of the US real estate bubble, to Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities...
...The long-running economic crisis since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 is linked to the property boom in several ways....
...The latest evidence that housing has turned the corner came as starts on new homes surged by 15 per cent in September to their highest level since before the failure of Lehman Brothers....
...Aurora’s $64bn worth of residential mortgage servicing rights have now been sold to Nationstar, owned by Fortress, Lehman announced on Friday. No price was announced....
...But Mr Meissner, who joined from Nomura in 2010, two years after the Japanese bank had taken over defunct Lehman Brothers’ European and Asian operations with multi-year guaranteed bonuses for its key staff...
...If you’d asked most stockmarket pundits this question at any point over the four years since Lehman Brothers went bust, chances are the response would have gone something like this: “You should buy big companies...
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