financial crisis

On 15 September 2008, Bobby Seagull arrived at his office in Canary Wharf just before 6am. It was the last time he would need to be on time. He was a trader at Lehman Brothers, an American bank undergoing serious turbulence. "We had seen on the Sunday news from America, they're filing for bankruptcy. We weren't quite sure [what] the implication was [for] us in the UK. So we were just told to turn up as normal." Initially it was "chaos", Bobby says. "There was no direct communication with our American colleagues. They weren't picking up the phones. Some people were picking up items, like painti