September 15, 2008: the day markets changed

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By Aidan Gregory, Asad Ali, David Bell, Michael Turner, Nell Mackenzie, Ross Lancaster, Tyler Davies, Victor Jimenez
13 Sep 2018

Traders, bankers, lawyers, brokers tell their stories of what happened when Lehman Brothers went down, how it ruined some businesses and created room for others, and how it has changed financial markets — for better and worse.

Zoe Harris

Senior manager, treasury advisory, at PwC

I went into Lehman as part of the PwC administration team on Day 3 post-collapse. It was very surreal going into the Lehman offices in Canary Wharf that I had seen so many times on the news over the ...

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