Ten years on: The financial crisis in numbers

How Britain's banking crash and the policy response to it have changed the economy

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On 9 August 2007 the French investment banking giant BNP Paribas "barred investors from accessing money in funds with subprime mortgage exposure", says the Financial Times.

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