Barclays and the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A costly investigation into the conduct of senior UK bankers during the financial crisis has raised questions about what it means to prosecute allegations of corporate crime, and whether Britain’s fraud laws need overhauling. With the FT’s Caroline Binham and Jane Croft.
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Barclays: the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’
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| 0:30.3 | Some days become inflection points. |
| 0:32.8 | Think of last Thursday when U.S. equities had their worst day since 1987. |
| 0:37.5 | It was a moment that we won't soon forget. |
| 0:39.9 | And we'll return to that story on this podcast soon. |
| 0:43.0 | But today we're going back to 2008, to September 15th, |
| 0:47.0 | the day that Investment Bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, |
| 0:50.0 | which sent shock waves felt in financial centers around the world. |
| 0:54.0 | It doesn't look much like a bank, but today Downing Street and so we the taxpayers have become the biggest |
| 0:59.9 | shareholders in these high street names. It's also a huge investment in the country's future. |
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