"On September 12th 2008, Lehman Brothers was valued at 639 billion US dollars. On Monday 15th September, it was worth nothing. How could trillions of dollars seemingly melt into air? Lehman Brothers had a long and prestigious history, and certainly until the end of 2007 had appeared to be...

Fortschritte in der Technologie, Konkurrenz von US-Banken und die neue zentralisierte europäische Wirtschaft bringen tiefgreifende Veränderungen für europäische Banken mit sich. Diejenigen Banken, die überleben, müssen sich rasch an die neuen Verhältnisse anpassen. "The Future of Retail...

The Glass-Steagall Act was enacted in 1933 in response to banking crises in the 1920s and early 1930s. It imposed the separation of commercial and investment banking. In 1999, after decades of incremental changes to the operation of the legislation, as well as significant shifts in the structure...