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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today did the financial crisis change banking?

There's a story you won't hear much about today

because it's a story that didn't really

happen. The former chief executive of Barclays and three other former senior

bankers there was on trial accused of fraud and it was a big deal. It was the first time criminal charges were brought

against the head of a global bank for activities during the 2008 financial crisis. And there's

not a lot more we can tell you about it because the case might come back

to court one day. It's now more than a decade since the crash happened and still today, most

of us who aren't in banking, complain that we ended up failing out the banks, that

we paid the price.

Britain's big banks under sustained attack on the markets.

As we go on air, there are crisis talks about how to

stabilize the banking system. Now one person who's been living this since

before the day it happened is the BBC's business editor Simon Jack who we spoke to just before the jury was

discharged in this case.

Well I was at the time presenting business news on breakfast TV and at that time it was broadcast from the stock

exchange so I'd make my way to the city every morning in the middle of the night

pretty much about 4 a.m. to get there and at that time the markets

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