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Financial crisis: Are we safer now?

A decade after the crash that reshaped financial markets, economies and politics around the world, the FT examines whether the financial system is more resilient than it was in 2008 — and where the risks lie today.

Have we learnt the lessons of the financial crisis?
Gillian Tett looks at why the warning signs were missed and where the next crash may strike
Life lessons from the people who worked at Lehman Brothers
Junior staff at the time of the bank’s collapse talk about how it has affected them
How the biggest private equity firms became the new banks
After the crisis the largest groups launched huge lending arms. But will they falter when interest rates rise?
Why so little has changed since the financial crash
Martin Wolf on the power of vested interests in today’s rent-extracting economy
The story of a house: how private equity swooped in after the subprime crisis
Blackstone has bought thousands of properties that were caught up in the mortgage meltdown
Weathering the financial crisis: how seven lives were changed
Our readers lost jobs, businesses and houses in the crash. They tell us what happened next

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