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    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      LexBanks
      Bank failures: lessons of past crises echo today Premium content

      While intervening in bank runs limits the damage, it dilutes the incentive to guard against financial risks

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
      Time to cut banker pay once and for all

      As an investor it’s the thing that matters for bank shares

    • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
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      AIG puts crisis-hit unit into bankruptcy to limit bonus payouts

      Move to restructure financial products division aims to curb claims from former executives

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Thomas Hoenig
      American banks need to repair their capital buffers

      The biggest US financial institutions are almost as highly leveraged as they were before the 2008 crisis

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    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
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      FTX: Wall Street might cover the liquidity issue but not its insolvency Premium content

      Cryptocurrency lacks a strong legal and regulatory framework to oversee distressed acquisitions

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Gillian Tett
      Executives are only now waking up to their collective blind spots

      We learnt from the financial crisis that when networks lack diversity they are vulnerable to a single shock

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Instant InsightMartin Sandbu
      A Nobel for an economic model with real world application

      Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig have taught lessons about bank runs that have been absorbed since the financial crisis

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
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      Ex-Fed chair Bernanke wins Nobel economics prize for work on banks

      Former chief of US central bank shares award with two other economists for research into financial crises

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Macroeconomics
      Oil shocks versus banking crises

      Which has the greater impact on long-term economic growth?

    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
      Failure to learn lessons of 2008 caused LDI pension blow-up

      There are clear parallels with many of the issues that led to the financial crisis

    • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
      Torsten Bell
      Textbook economics will not avert this winter’s energy catastrophe

      The crisis has made the UK poorer; we must use targeted help plus windfall and solidarity taxes to get through the worst

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
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      The rise of the ‘F@$K It’ investor

      The 2008 financial crisis gave rise to a new generation of investors known as ‘generation moonshot’

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      AIB Group PLC
      Ireland’s AIB fined record €96.7mn over tracker mortgage scandal

      Country’s second-biggest lender failed to give customers access to cheap interest rates

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Ruchir Sharma
      The threat shadow banks pose to the global economy

      This realm beyond regulators is where the next crisis will arise

    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      FT Swamp Notes
      The end of an era Premium content

      In the aftermath of the Ukraine war there may be a redefining of liberal values and reconnecting of nation states

    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      NatWest Group
      UK government to cut NatWest stake to less than 50%

      Lender to buy back £1.2bn of shares from the Treasury

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
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      Inside Iceland’s probe into the 2008 financial crash

      Former lead investigator for the Icelandic regulator shares his insights into how fraud was unearthed and bankers jailed

    • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
      Sean FitzPatrick
      Former chief of collapsed Anglo Irish Bank Seán FitzPatrick dies

      Banker who came to symbolise Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom-and-bust died aged 73

    • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
      Philip Stephens
      The west is the author of its own weakness

      China presents a threat to the liberal global order but the bigger danger lies in the discrediting of democracy

    • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
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