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...For after Lehman Brothers imploded, there was a race to tighten capital and liquidity standards. And this continues, even today....
...Then the failure of Lehman Brothers drove the industry off a cliff, forcing European and US governments to fund taxpayer rescues....
...“Before the financial crisis it would have been hard to compete with a Lehman Brothers in providing liquidity. But now we have a role to play in the ecosystem,” he says....
...From Shearson Lehman, Schlosstein brought Susan Wagner and, later, Hugh Frater, two of its smartest mortgage bond specialists....
...One example was SSG, an Asia-focused fund set up by former Lehman Brothers executives, now owned by the US-based asset manager Ares....
...In fact, on many metrics we track, the market recovery looks almost identical to what happened after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Just as in 2009, most investors naturally remain very sceptical....
...The government should resist the pressure to save Lehman Brothers, as it had Bear Stearns and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage institutions, I wrote....
...The American mortgage market did experience deleveraging. So did the bank and hedge fund sectors....
...An epic, searching affair, it brings Lehman and his two brothers back to witness the eventual unravelling of their company....
...Two days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, in September 2008, I went on an anxious walk to my local bank branch....
...Nine months after Mr Chai joined the company, on the weekend that Lehman Brothers collapsed into bankruptcy, Mr Thain sold Merrill to Bank of America for $50bn....
...When Lehman Brothers imploded almost 10 years ago, few Wall Street banks were worse placed to withstand the fallout than Citigroup....
...and disclose holdings of more than $40bn of asset and mortgage-backed securities....
...Berkshire ploughed $5bn into Goldman Sachs about a week after the collapse of Lehman Brothers....
...Last year that share dropped to 16 per cent, even though Barclays had swallowed much of Lehman Brothers in the meantime....
...This is a rather convoluted story that begins back at the end of September, when Constellation Healthcare Technologies, Inc, an American supplier of medical billing systems quoted on the AIM market in London...
...The chaos of September 2008 was unleashed by one decision — to let the investment bank Lehman Brothers fail — but tempered by another, the rescue of AIG led by the New York Federal Reserve....
...Talent finds its way,” says Larry McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader who is now head of US strategy, macro group, at Newedge....
...What makes all this doubly strange is that Bond, who had cautioned executives against “deal fever”, had the sense, the book reveals, to turn down invitations to take stakes in Lehman Brothers and Long-Term...
...‘The allegations by Mr Budde were previously raised with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and its non-management directors in the spring of 2008....
...Securitisation and the development of sub-prime mortgages were originally devised to serve a respectable goal: the push toward universal home ownership in the US....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there are firm signs of a world economic recovery, particularly in the US and UK....
...When the financial crisis hit Goldman and Morgan Stanley converted into bank holding companies, subjecting them to Fed oversight, too....
...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...
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