May 9,  2017  Bank of Japan  The Global Economy and the Global Financial System: In an Era of Revival and Metamorphosis Speech at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) Spring Membership Meeting  Haruhiko Kuroda  Governor of the Bank of Japan  Introduction: Ten Years On from the Global Financial Crisis Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to address the Spring Membership Meeting of the Institute of International Finance (IIF).
This year, we will be entering the ninth year since Lehman Brothers collapsed. That event in September of 2008 was one of the most visible flashpoints of the Global Financial Crisis, but if we count from what should be seen as the foreshock -- severe disruptions in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in 2007 -- we are marking the tenth anniversary of the Crisis.