Global financial crisis: Did they get their house in order?

Front End looks back 10 years, on the views of the chief executives of 11 big banks interviewed in the wake of the banking crisis.

Ten years ago, as Euromoney was writing its 2008 jumbo issue for the World Bank/IMF meetings, it was clear that the global banking industry was in crisis. Lehman Brothers had collapsed, Merrill Lynch was rescued at the last minute. What could the industry do to get its house in order, we wondered, before outside influences did the job for them?

We spoke to the chief executives of 11 big international banks, from a mixture of Europe, North America and Asia – and it is intriguing to revisit the articles a decade later.

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