Mapping the meltdown across the Atlantic.

The rising tide is sinking more ships. Bad loans, aggressive overexpansion, and blowback from the American financial crisis are plaguing European financial institutions. This weekend, French, German, Italian, and British political leaders failed to agree on a coordinated strategy, calling the EU as an institution into question. That hasn’t stopped them from acting alone or with neighbors to try to stop the damage. The Big Money maps the contagion in Europe, from Iceland to England to Greece: big bank failures, nationalizations, or takeovers (blue flag) as well as recent moves by European governments to guarantee or increase insurance on debts or savings (orange policeman). Click on each marker for more information. And return to this site over the coming days for the latest developments.

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Troubled banks