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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled. Investment banks used to trade using their own capital.

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