The long shadows of financial crises Ten years after the onset of the global financial crisis, its legacies still weigh heavily on the financial sector and the real economy. The crisis emerged from the core of the global financial system, but it has had significant economic and social costs globally.
It is no accident that the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius once said: “It is only among bankers that I have ever come across an appreciation of music; it is very rare among artists, who prefer to talk about money.”  BIS Review 39/1998  ˝  -3-  IV Another reason why you may feel at home in Frankfurt is that - in my opinion - there are a number of common features in the Finnish and German mentalities.