Brandon Davies’ life is all about risk.

A guru of global financial markets, he’s on the boards of two new banks; he runs a trading operation, using his own money, just for kicks. Risk, he says, is how we learn and grow as people. We should embrace it, not avoid it.

At least that’s what he said in the summer of 2008, when producer Sean Cole spent a few days with him in London.

Then the global financial system collapsed.