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The global banking world has been transformed by the crisis which commenced in mid-2007 and reached a climax — for the time being! — in October 2008 with a firestorm which brought about the collapse of a number of US and other banking institutions and an entry of government ownership and intervention unprecedented since the 1930s.
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© 2009 Steven I. Davis
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Davis, S.I. (2009). Introduction. In: Banking in Turmoil. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230275065_1
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