Six years, seven months, and 13 days after Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy, its former chief executive, Richard Fuld Jr, is still insisting it did not go broke.

The US Supreme Court yesterday allowed Barclays to claim about $4bn (€3.6bn) of disputed assets as part of its hurried purchase of much of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ brokerage unit at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.