Coming Soon: Banking Bad

Who We Are

We are bank resolution and financial crisis professionals with more than 100 years of combined experience working through bank failures, systemic stress events, and financial instability situations across multiple jurisdictions.

Throughout our careers, we participated directly in the difficult decisions, emergency interventions, and behind-the-scenes discussions that shaped responses to financial crises.

Why Banking Bad

Over time, we independently began noticing the re-emergence of many of the same conditions, assumptions, and risk patterns that contributed to past banking crises and institutional failures we encountered throughout our careers.

We launched Banking Bad to provide perspective from people who were in the room when those events unfolded — and to explore what today’s financial system can still learn from them.

Our Thesis

The phrase “history doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes” is not simply an observation to us — it reflects our lived experience in financial crisis management.

Through conversations with former regulators, policymakers, bankers, deposit insurers, and crisis managers, we revisit pivotal moments in financial history and examine:

• what happened,

• how decisions were made under pressure,

• what worked,

• what failed,

and which lessons remain relevant in today’s environment of constant financial disruption.

Our focus is not hindsight criticism. It is understanding how complex financial crises actually unfold in real time.

Join the Conversation

Financial crises are rarely caused by a single event. They emerge from interconnected pressures, incentives, blind spots, and human decisions.

Join us as we explore the stories behind major banking failures and financial disruptions — and discuss what those experiences may tell us about the risks ahead.