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  2. Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, September 15, 2008. According to Bloomberg, reports filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan) on September 16 indicated that JPMorgan Chase & Co. provided Lehman Brothers with a total of $138 billion in "Federal Reserve-backed advances".

  3. J. P. Morgan - Wikipedia

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    Signature. John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) [1] was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving personal force behind the wave ...

  4. 2023 United States banking crisis - Wikipedia

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    The 2023 United States banking crisis was a series of bank failures and bankruptcies that took place in early 2023, with the United States federal government ultimately intervening in several ways. Over the course of five days in March 2023, three small-to-mid size U.S. banks failed, triggering a sharp decline in global bank stock prices and ...

  5. JPMorgan Chase - Wikipedia

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    JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization as of 2023. [4] [5] As the largest of Big Four banks, the firm is considered systemically important by the Financial ...

  6. Bear Stearns - Wikipedia

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    Bear Stearns' former offices at 383 Madison Avenue. Bear Stearns was founded as an equity trading house on May 1, 1923, by Joseph Ainslie Bear, Robert B. Stearns and Harold C. Mayer with $500,000 in capital (equivalent to $8,941,406 in 2023). Internal tensions quickly arose among the three founders.

  7. Panic of 1907 - Wikipedia

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    Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial, with its statue of George Washington, is seen on the right.. The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange suddenly fell almost 50% ...

  8. Pink Energy files for bankruptcy amid mounting complaints ...

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    The bankruptcy court filing shows Pink Energy has between 25,001 and 50,000 creditors. Among the largest creditors listed are: JP Morgan Chase Bank for nearly $81 million; Meta Platforms Inc. in ...

  9. Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers Inc. ( / ˈliːmən / LEE-mən) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. [2] Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch ), with about 25,000 employees worldwide.