Margin Call

"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat." Margin Call is a 2011 American independent movie, which takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank during the early stages of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. The film focuses in particular on …

What is a Lender of Last Resort?

A Lender of Last Resort (LLR) is an institution, usually a country's Central Bank (like the Federal Reserve in the United States), that offers loans to banks or other organizations that are having financial difficulties or that are near a collapse or a bankruptcy. Generally, LLRs borrow money to those companies or financial institutions whose …