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Financial crisis: Global banking reshaped As uncertainty continues to afflict world markets, FT.com offers users a multimedia snapshot of what has become one of the most radical reshapings of the global banking sector. Visit our special section on the financial crisis to get news packages, interactive features and video showing how governments and the private sector are battling to shore up the financial system: • Government bailouts – interactive graphic of recent state help to banks • Bank street – multimedia feature following fortunes of world's largest banks • Economists' Forum - governments have at last thrown the world a lifeline • Gillian Tett – policymakers save world in the final reel • John Authers – Short View video on why investors are selling off equities • IMF in depth – the scramble to avoid collapse • UK banks – in depth on banking turmoil Global financial crisis in depth

Special report: World Economy 2008 The financial system, always weakly glued together with confidence and trust, has flirted with collapse. So quickly and deeply has the crisis engulfed financial markets that the world's most powerful politicians have become impotent commentators. As we near the end of a turbulent year with continuing instability in the world markets, visit us online for the complete picture of what has happened so far and how it might develop in the future. World Economy 2008 special report