In the days after the attack, trade associations for the bond and derivatives markets fielded calls from traders who needed to know how to settle contracts due to close on days the market was not in session.

FORBES: Collateral Damage

Ten years after the attack that killed her husband Michael, a bond broker on the 84th floor of Tower Two the former public schoolteacher is seeking new career opportunities.

FORBES: After 9/11: A New Career for Monica Iken

But as junk bond financed companies continued to come under attack RJR bonds fell to big discounts.

FORBES: Dow Jones Interactive

Now discussions of the directive are coming to a head, with the British under attack for obstructing the tax merely to protect the jobs of rich bond dealers in the City of London (see article).

ECONOMIST: Toxic taxes

Composer John Barry, famous for his work on Born Free, Out of Africa and the James Bond films, has died in New York of a heart attack aged 77.

BBC: Bond composer John Barry dies aged 77

The book, also called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was written by James Bond author Ian Fleming in 1961, while he was recovering from a heart attack.

BBC: Rare Chitty papers go under hammer