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HBS Working Knowledge September 29, 2008 Martha Lagace	Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay O. Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial crisis at a recent "Turmoil on the Street" panel.
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd	Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Subprime Truths and Consequences The continuing credit crunch spotlights the perils of leverage. How should your financial advisory clients respond?
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Ingves & Lind	Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2008 Richard Martin	Wall Street Firms Face Delicate Balance In the wake of the stunning fall of Bear Stearns, financial services IT organizations are bracing for big cutbacks -- while at the same time being called on to implement systems to help prevent future debacles.
U.S. Banker June 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Upending an Idol of Globalization Three recent reports dissect what the subprime-mortgage crisis has taught economy watchers about financial globalization, particularly unfettered access to credit. Does credit emerge as the savior or the villain?
CFO June 1, 2008 Edward Teach	How Bad Will It Get? The subprime-mortgage meltdown is strikingly similar to major financial crises in other countries. Will the aftermath be as costly?
Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008	Credit Crisis Places IT Budgets in Question (Again) The subprime mortgage mess and credit crunch are impacting financial firms' IT budgets in different ways. But if the multi-billion dollar write-downs continue, one thing is for sure: technology budgets will be in flux for the remainder of the year.
Financial Advisor October 2009 Marla Brill	Leaving The Pack Marketfield Fund manager Michael Aronstein believes the economic recovery will be more pronounced than many people expect. But watch out for the long term.
Wall Street & Technology June 29, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Data Volume Skyrockets Over the past three years, market data volumes have risen by 1,750%. Meanwhile, investment banks, exchanges and electronic communications networks are under pressure to upgrade their market data infrastructures.
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Tapping the Pipeline Today, the surge in automated-trading strategies has put so much emphasis on getting fast and accurate data that the kind of team approach to information technology that Merrill and other securities firms are taking has become necessary for survival.
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Charles Collyns	The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Jason Brady	Bottleneck While driven by fundamental weakness in U.S. real estate, in particular subprime loans, the current liquidity crisis has become a general lack of confidence in banking and financial institutions globally.
HBS Working Knowledge February 24, 2011 Sean Silverthorne	What's Government's Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing? The private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but it should be carefully monitored using new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. The government should play a role of "guarantor of last resort" in periods of crisis.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Kerry Massaro	Taking Risks Credit risk management hasn't been a hot topic in the securities industry since the fall of Enron.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Michael Mandel	The Economy's Safety Valve Periodic crises like the subprime mess may be necessary to keep global markets from melting down.
Real Estate Portfolio Sep/Oct 2007 Dees Stribling	Coming into Focus Mortgage REITs of all stripes tighten their lending practices to improve their outlook going forward. The subprime event may mark a permanent change in the business environment for mortgage REITs, as well as mortgage lenders and investors.
Reason June 2008 Donald J. Boudreaux	The Coming Recession Seven observers debate the (sorry) state of the economy.
Reason May 2009 Brian Doherty	Storm Ahead While past performance is no guarantee of future bad results, the effects of the current type of economic crisis, as opposed to a typical recession, tend to be grim and long-lasting.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 John Rosevear	Is It Time to Buy a House Yet? The subprime mortgage mess has created a mixed blessing for potential homebuyers.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Jessica Pallay	Lamenting Latency "If buy-side firms want to actively trade and aggressively try to execute on their own behalf, they need tools to compete with the brokers who are sitting on the fattest pipes and have the highest-speed technology," says Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of Westborough, Mass.-based The Tabb Group.
U.S. Banker September 2008 John Engen	Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here?
Wall Street & Technology March 21, 2006 Tim Lind	Counterparty Data Challenge Knowing the total relationship a financial institution has with its customer and its counterparty is key -- but only if the data is trustworthy.
Insurance & Technology November 10, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	In the Crisis's Wake, the Financial Services Industries Assess the Damage and Look to the Future Looking forward, financial services IT organizations will bear much of the burden of restructuring and implementing new, more-effective governance and risk assessment processes.
Bank Technology News January 2008 Glen Fest	Risk Without Reward The subprime mess has exposed how fragile banks are today to market pressures, and how much can fall on the shoulders of risk officers. Finding a path forward from the ashes will require stronger leadership overseeing risk.
U.S. Banker February 2008 Glen Fest	Risk Without Reward Finding a path forward from the ashes of the subprime mess will require stronger leadership overseeing risk, a culture more respectful of interdependent risks and new technologies measuring them across the enterprise.
Financial Advisor October 2007 Jeff Schlegel	A Real (Estate) Mess In the wake of the subprime debacle, investors rethink the ways they are investing in real estate.
Financial Advisor September 2007 Evan Simonoff	Editor's Note The subprime fiasco may turn out to be a small footnote in which asset-rich hedge funds, in their quest for outsized returns, allowed lower- and middle-income folks with poor credit to spend a few years in houses that were beyond their means. Or, is it the beginning of the Big One?
HBS Working Knowledge September 12, 2007 Nicolas P. Retsinas	Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure A look at what went wrong in the subprime industry and why.
Bank Systems & Technology November 20, 2008 Parker & Pitchenik	Banks Must Aggregate Risk Management Efforts Now banks and investment houses have no choice but to raise their ability to capture, analyze and act on risk information across the organization.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	Subprime As the implosion of subprime mortgages and junk bonds causes uncertainty throughout the markets, advisors and broker/dealer executives may want to think about what's in their clients' portfolios.
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Engen	The Politics of Lending Sen. John McCain took time to present his vision of a world with simplified mortgage applications, and even suggested that the government might need to jump in to help mitigate the worsening crisis.
U.S. Banker January 2010 Eugene Ludwig	A Three-Step Approach to Repairing the Industry's Image The disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street has tarnished the reputation of banking generally and made it harder for the industry to collaborate with the government.
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Peter Coy	Fixing American Finance The U.S. financial system is erratic and voracious, and keeps score in milliseconds. Here's how to rein in the beast.