So this is a good question to ask. Lehman Brothers wasn’t a bank so it won’t be in the FDIC data that was used to create the visualization. FDIC only insured banks not other financial entities that could also participate in a “financial collapse”. It raises the question of how useful the visual comparison is if it lack the key entities.

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And FDIC, means only USA. That's why there is no Credit Suisse. So another reason you can question the usefulness of the visualisation.