Template:Roll of honour
Scandal | Date | Jurisdiction | Estimated Loss | Gatekeepers | Firings | Jail-Time? |
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Barclays Programme Limit | 2022 | US | £1.3bn | Internal Operations | None reported | No |
LME Nickel Short Squeeze | 2022 | London | “Billions” | LME | None reported ... yet | No |
Evergrande | 2021 | China | $300bn | Who knows? | No | |
Archegos | 2021 | US | $10bn+ | UMR Internal operations |
100+ across brokers plus several senior executives and one CEO | Eyes peeled, Mr Huang |
Greensill | 2021 | UK | $4.6bn | |||
Melvin Capital Management LP | 2021 | US | $7bn | Hubris detector failed | Everyone! The fund shut down shortlay after | Talk of regulators, outrageously, going after the outsider traders, but nothing as yet. |
Citigroup v Brigade | 2021 | US | $500m | Outsourcing, Operations, IT | Not reported but wouldn’t fancy being head of the team in Bangalore | No |
Nikola | 2020 | US | About 80% share drop | CEO misrepresentations | Must have been plenty | CEO indicted on charges of securities fraud |
Luckin Coffee | 2020 | |||||
Wirecard | 2020 | Germany | ||||
WeWork | 2019 | US | ||||
Carillion | 2018 | UK | ||||
Patisserie Valerie | 2018 | UK | ||||
Abraaj | 2017 | Saudi Arabia | ||||
Fyre festival | 2017 | US | ||||
1MDB | 2016 | Malaysia and US co-production | ||||
Mossack Fonseca | 2016 | Panama with help from the international community | ||||
Theranos | 2016 | US | ||||
Wells Fargo accounts fraud | 2016 | US | ||||
Volkswagen emissions | 2015 | Germany and US | ||||
Autonomy | 2012 | UK and US | ||||
Olympus | 2012 | |||||
LIBOR | 2012 | UK | ||||
London Whale | 2012 | UK | ||||
Kweku Abodoli | 2011 | UK | ||||
Jérôme Kerviel | 2008 | UK | ||||
Bernie Madoff | 2008 | US | ||||
Amaranth | 2007 | US | ||||
Tyco | 2002 | US | ||||
Parmalat | 2003 | Italy | ||||
Freddie Mac | 2003 | US | ||||
Global Crossing | 2002 | US | ||||
WorldCom | 2002 | US | ||||
Enron | 2001 | US | ||||
Long Term Capital Management | 1998 | US | ||||
Yasuo Hamanaka | 1996 | UK | ||||
Savings and Loan | 1995 | US | ||||
Nick Leeson | 1992 | UK Singapore |