Standard & Poor / General Motors / Deutsche Bank / Enron / Swiss Bank UBS / the Financial Times / Barclays Capital / Merrill Lynch / Ford / Bloomberg / Bear Stearns / Northern Rock / Arthur Andersen / CDO / /
Continent
North America / Europe / /
Country
Cayman Islands / United States / United Kingdom / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Debt Financing / Person Communication and Meetings / Product Issues / /
Facility
Canary Wharf / /
IndustryTerm
end-of-the-world insurance / insurance / bank balance sheets / end-of-theworld insurance / similar products / structured products / finance / software package / investment-grade products / parent bank / end-ofthe-world insurance / electricity / bank / investment bank / banking / bank runs / air-conditioning systems / /
Organization
British government / Marxist government in Washington / US Federal Reserve / Bank of England / /
Person
Bruce Carruthers / Donald MacKenzie / Arthur Stinchcombe / Jon Gregory / Josef Ackermann / /
Position
statistician / fund manager / head / investment banker / CDO Evaluator / banker / Major / major US bank / trader / /
End-of-the-World Trade Donald MacKenzie Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks’ headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund’s St James’s office