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Sept. 15 marks the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a day that set off panic that reverberated around the world, and for many, will be remembered as the signal event of the worst financial crisis since the Second World War.

Here's a review of The Globe's coverage of Lehman's collapse. Check back for updates:

Most recent: News, analysis, reflections

• BNN anchor Howard Green looks back at his days as a visiting fellow at Columbia University and finds that budding financiers kneel down before the discounted cash flow analysis, but they don't know squat about risk management: How I didn't become a budding financier
• Only a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers threw the world into crisis, Barack Obama warned in a much anticipated speech that risky behaviour is creeping back onto Wall Street and momentum for tougher financial rules is ebbing. Barrie McKenna reports: Obama warns against 'complacency'

Marking an anniversary: Recent coverage

• From his perch in New York, business reporter Sinclair Stewart looks back and asks what, if anything, Wall Street has learned: The day everything - and nothing - changed
• Almost a year to the day since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. froze global markets, deal making is back in a big way. And as regulators struggle to draft tougher rules, some worry that the rebound is robbing the reform movement of urgency. And that could have serious repercussions. Boyd Erman and Tara Perkins report: The return of credit, the return of risk
• Richard Blackwell looks at what happened in the days and weeks following Lehman's collapse: A bust of an anniversary
• “You don't have a gun; that's good.” That was how former Lehman Brothers' CEO Richard Fuld greeted a Reuters reporter who had tracked him down to his country house in a bucolic setting beside a river and amid tree-covered slopes in Ketchum, Idaho. The man vilified for the collapse of Lehman Brothers almost a year ago, a failure that triggered the global economic crisis, seemed burdened but not crushed by the pressure of the coming anniversary. Fuld braces for Lehman anniversary
• After more than a decade of building dreams atop a bubble — first in technology stocks, then in housing — there is no clear route forward: A year after the meltdown: Tough questions, choices

Retrospective: An investigation

In December, 2008, Report on Business published an indepth investigation into Lehman Brothers' collapse, by Paul Waldie and Sinclair Stewart.

• Part 1: How it all began
• Part 2: Lehman's rise and fall

Week of Sept. 15, 2008:

• The eve of Lehman's collapse: U.S. on edge as bank crisis transforms Wall Street
• Barrie McKenna reports September 15: A day of reckoning
• How convoluted financial products and misguided government policy crippled the Big Five investment banks, Sinclair Stewart explains: Bringing down the houses that built America's economy
• Derek DeCloet, the day after Lehman's collapse: It's a history-making financial crisis, and it's not over yet
• Derek DeCloet reviews a historic week: Five days that shook the financial world

Videos:

• Berman's View: One year later - winners and losers a year after Lehman's fall
• BNN video: Crisis on Wall Street: Lehman's collapse
• AFP video: Anniversary of a bank collapse

Interactive:

• Boyd Erman narrates an audio slideshow about Lehman's lessons, one year later: Lessons in Lehman
• A timeline, originally created in December, 2008, of the events leading up to Lehman's collapse: Lehman's rise and fall: A timeline