Competing against larger rivals like Goldman Sachs Group Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co, Lehman Brothers filed the biggest-ever US bankruptcy by assets on September 15, 2008
The film's portrait of the hollowing out of Middle America in the aftermath of the crisis provides a consummate precursor to the election of a man who promised to 'make America great again'
The combination of massive leverage, opaque financial instruments and the radical interconnectedness of financial firms in the US was a disaster waiting to happen
The problem child of the 2008 financial crisis now lives in central counterparties
"Covenant-lite" deals are booming among leveraged loans, a sort of subprime debt often employed in corporate acquisitions
With the Federal Reserve hiking rates, money managers have piled into collateralized loan obligations, which carry a floating rate
Business Standard yesterday conducted a poll asking readers if the world would again face another crisis similar to the 2008 one. Here is the result
With Prime Minister Theresa May's government weakened by her Conservative Party's infighting over Brexit, Labour is hoping her minority government will collapse
From banks getting greedy and pushing to world towards a disaster, to knowing the people who kept the India economy standing, the world has seen a lot since Lehman Brothers collapsed 10 years ago
Even when faced with a banking crisis, the government has not even attempted to address the root cause of decades of bad loans
Regulation has deprived emerging markets of desperately needed infrastructure finance
Investors also need to avoid getting over-allocated to a particular asset class during good times
A stringent retail lending mechanism, a scathed but smarter MF sector and insolvency laws that could foster a healthier India Inc may see the country steer clear of a 2008-like economic mess
The genuine changes are under the surface - and those too need to be examined carefully to see if they still retain their usefulness as crisis resolution becomes less of a priority
D Subbarao, C B Bhave and Montek Singh Ahluwalia worked with P Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh to ensure India came out unscathed from the global crisis
After losing billions of dollars over a decade, Tata Steel announced last year that it would merge its European operations with Germany's Thyssenkrupp
The group, which missed a payment in the commercial-paper market last month, is now late in servicing an inter-corporate deposit
The global meltdown didn't happen. Demographics mean it's unwise to bet on one now
A decade since the financial crisis almost tipped the global economy into a prolonged depression that would have devastated livelihoods for at least a generation
The fourth part of the series on the 10th anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers looks at India's missed opportunity to set its footprints abroad