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Lehman traders’ new sanctuary may be short-lived


Lehman Brothers employees in North America started work under the Barclays Capital name on Monday September 22, but the fate of Lehman’s futures and options brokerages is still uncertain.

More than 10,000 former Lehman Brothers employees were retained by Barclays after it acquired most of Lehman’s trading desks in US bankruptcy court over the weekend.

Barclays bought Lehman’s North American fixed income and...

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