The Swiss lender is the 18th firm to reach a settlement with US prosecutors investigating the 2008 crisis. Rules introduced after the financial crisis in 2008 that were aimed at limiting risks ...

Risky adjustable-rate mortgages and lack of oversight on mortgage securitization created a crisis of global proportions in 2007 and 2008 ... collapsing the global financial system and resulting ...

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Tim Geithner, and Lord Adair Turner on central banks’ responses to the 2007–10 financial crisis, current risks in the financial system, and countries’ preparedness for what ...

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The financial crisis of 2008, often called ...

The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3%, the biggest drop since the Great Depression. Deregulation in the 2000s and excessive risk by banks were major causes of the financial crisis.

Common wisdom, after all, holds that the failure acted as the detonator of the great financial crisis and recession of 2008-09. A review of what went wrong might offer a way to avoid such ...

The tiny Nordic country of Iceland played an unlikely role in the global financial crisis of the late 00s ... Brothers declared bankruptcy in late 2007, the short term lending market dried ...

$19.95 (cloth). If ever an event ought to have caused a profession to indulge in an orgy of self-doubt, it ought to have been the financial crisis of 2007–08. The world plunged into a deep recession ...

The British and Irish governments separately announced on Tuesday they were trimming stakes in banks they’ve owned since the ...

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