Peter Thal Larsen is a Dutch journalist. Thal Larsen graduated from

Bristol University The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Bristol, which had ...

before going on to the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

. He began working for the ''

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'' in 1999 and moved to the paper's

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office the following year, first as a financial correspondent and then U.S. communications editor. He returned to

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in 2004 to become banking editor, leading the paper's coverage of the

2008 financial crisis The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis (GFC), was a major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States. The causes of the 2008 crisis included excessive speculation on housing values by both homeowners ...

and the

2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package During the 2008 financial crisis, the UK government intervened financially to support the UK banking sector, and four UK banks in particular. At its peak, the cash cost of these interventions was £137 billion, paid to the banks in the form of ...

. In 2009, he departed to become

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' European comment editor, reporting to Jonathan Ford. Following Reuters' acquisition of

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later that year he became assistant editor of Reuters Breakingviews. In 2012, he moved to

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to take up a new position within Reuters as the Asia editor for Breakingviews. Thal Larsen was one of a number of senior financial journalists who reported on the effects of the

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, and was interviewed by Ian Fraser for a 2011

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documentary on the topic.

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