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|+ Roll of Honour, financial disasters edition
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! Scandal !! Date !! Where!! Loss !! Reason !! Firings !! Jail-Time?
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|{{disaster roll - Post Office Horizon}}
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|{{disaster roll - Credit Suisse}}
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|{{disaster roll - SVB memeplex}} 
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|{{disaster roll - Frank}} 
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|{{disaster roll - FTX}}
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|{{disaster roll - BarclaysMTN}}
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|LME Nickel [[short squeeze]] || 2022|| London || [https://internationalbanker.com/brokerage/the-nickel-short-squeeze-what-happened/ “Billions”] || LME || None reported ... yet || No
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|[[Evergrande]] || 2021|| China || [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/business/china-evergrande-debt-protests.html $300bn] || || Who knows? || No
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|[[Archegos]] || 2021|| US || [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/27/nomura-and-ubs-latest-banks-to-reveal-impact-of-archegos-collapse $10bn+] || [[When variation margin attacks|UMR]]<br>Internal operations || 100+ across brokers plus several senior executives and one CEO || Eyes peeled, Mr Huang
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|[[Greensill]] || 2021|| UK || [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/business/greensill-capital-collapse.html $4.6bn] || ||
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|[[Melvin Capital Management LP]] || 2021 || US || [https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/gme/gamestop-stock-melvin-capital-defeated-by-the-apes $7bn] || Hubris detector failed || Everyone! The fund shut down shortlay after || Talk of regulators, outrageously, going after the [[outsider trader]]s, but nothing as yet.
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|[[Citigroup v Brigade]] || 2021|| US || [https://www.ft.com/content/de433d55-5cea-4929-9954-c08e5b98f004 $500m] || Outsourcing, Operations, IT || Not reported but wouldn’t fancy being head of the team in Bangalore || No
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|Nikola || 2020|| US || [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html About 80% share drop] || CEO misrep || Must have been plenty || CEO indicted on charges of securities fraud
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|[[WireCard|Wirecard]] || 2020|| Germany || [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wirecard-accounts-idUSKBN23W176 $4bn] ||  CEO misrep || All of them || Three charged with fraud including CEO
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|[[WeWork]] || 2019|| US || [https://therealdeal.com/2022/03/11/weworks-losses-narrow-but-are-still-huge/ $11bn over three years]|| CEO [[yogababble]] || Nothing to see here folks! Got a new venture to start up || ''Jail''? Dude hasn’t even been kicked off Marc Andreesen’s Xmas Card list.
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|Carillion || 2018|| UK || [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/15/carillion-collapse-two-years-on-government-has-learned-nothing#:~:text=The%20demise%20of%20Carillion%20was,sales%20of%20%C2%A35.2bn. £7bn] || Auditors || 3,000 jobs || No but litigation a-plenty
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|Patisserie Valerie || 2018|| UK || £94m || Auditors ||900 jobs || No but PWC fined 2.3m
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|Abraaj || 2017|| Saudi || $1bn || Fraud, Virtue signalling || Some, not clear how many. ||Naqvi extradited and charged in US, many many gatekeepers fined
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|Fyre festival || 2017|| US || ||
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|{{disaster roll - tunabonds}}
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|{{disaster roll - 1MDB}}
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|[[Mossack Fonseca]] || 2016|| Panama || ||
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|[[Theranos]] || 2016|| US || peak valuation 10bn || Fraud, delusion || everyone at the firm|| Founders in jail for hundreds of years.
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|Wells Fargo accounts fraud || 2016|| US || $2.7bn in fines and civil suits || fraud, out-of-control rampant bad appledom ||Plenty || SEC civil suits vs two senior executives
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|Volkswagen emissions || 2015|| Germany and US || ||
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| AIG || 2008 || US || US$61bn || Misunderstanding mortgages || Not reported || Some irritation that bonuses were still paid 
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|Olympus || 2012|| Asia || US$4.9 || Accounting shenanigans, fraud || 2700 jobs ||Kikugawa and Mori sentenced to 3 years in prison, 5 years suspended. Auditor sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, 4 years suspended. Olympus was fined 700 million yen ($7 million USD). In April 2014, six banks filed a civil suit against Olympus over the fraud, seeking an additional 28 billion yen in damages.
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|{{disaster roll - LIBOR}} 
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|London Whale || 2012|| UK || £6.2b || Rogue trader || Bruno Iskill was fired; an external lawfirm did a deep dive but unclear anyone else was directly whacked ||No
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|Kweku Abodoli || 2011|| UK || $4.5bn|| Rogue trader|| Abodoli and his line management ||Abodoli 
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|Jérôme Kerviel || 2008|| UK || $6.7bn || Rogue trader || Kerviel and his line management||Kerviel
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|[[Bernie Madoff]] || 2008|| US ||  US$65bn || Fraud/Ponzi || Whole firm, many subsidiaries and feeders || Madoff imprisoned. Several implicated enablers topped themselves.
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|Amaranth || 2007|| US || US$9.2 || Hubris, Markets misbehaving || Whole firm || Charges settled on payment of 750,000 fine.
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|Tyco || 2002|| US || US$3bn || Accounting shenanigans || Unclear || Kozlowski did a stretch.
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|Parmalat || 2003|| Italy || EUR14bn|| Accounting shenanigans || ||Lots of settlements, fines and red faces
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|Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae || 2008|| US || US$14.9bn || Failure to understand the concentrated risk of subprime home loans
 || No it was everyone else’s fault ||No it was everyone else’s fault 
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|Global Crossing || 2002|| US ||  US$47bn if you believed the company0146s valuations || accounting shenanigans || Whole firm ||Gary Winnick and other ex-executives settled lawsuits filed by investors and former employees accusing the executives of committing securities fraud by using improper accounting to inflate the company's revenue
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|WorldCom || 2002|| US || US$11bn|| Accounting shenanigans || Whole firm ||Ebbers convicted of fraud, conspiracy, and filing false documents with regulators and sentenced to 25 years.
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|[[Enron]] || 2001|| US || US$63.4bn || Accounting shenanigans, hubris, mismanagement || Whole firm, plus Arthur Anderson collapsed, which was nice, oh and the Sarbanes Oxley Act || Skilling, Lay and Fastow jailed, for fraud, money laundering, insider trading, and conspiracy among other things.
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|{{disaster roll - LTCM}}
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|Yasuo Hamanaka || 1996|| Asia || US$1.8bn || Rogue Trader || Fired||Hamanaka convicted on four counts of forgery and fraud and sentenced to eight years in jail. Sumitomo paid fines of US$150 million to CFTC and US$8 million to the SIB to settle charges of copper price manipulations. 
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|Nick Leeson || 1992|| UK Singapore ||  US$1.4|| Rogue trader || Whole firm || Leeson jailed.
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|[[Lehman]]  || 2008 || Worldwide || US$613bn|| Bankruptcy|| Hundreds of thousands || Noone.
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