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FIN 540 Assignment 1, Literature Review for Lehman Brothers’ Bankruptcy Paper

FIN 540 Week 8 Assignment 2, The lingering impact of Lehman Brother’s Bankruptcy

The filing of Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008 was and is still the largest bankruptcy in history. The assets of the bank of $639 surpassed of the past previous bankruptcy giant companies. While the collapse may be tied to the price bubble, particularly the sudden burst of housing market that is tied to US subprime mortgages, the underlying causes were bazar of the credit default swaps, unethical behavior by top executives, loose risk management strategies and policies, risk return relationship and falsification of financial statements. Primarily, the bank possessed myriad of bad assets and people had no confidence in bank’s products because they were so non-transparent (Arslidou,2016). Less than year before the bankruptcy, the bank had posted the highest profit since its inception……………..Continued (10 Pages with References)