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Template:Tableflex |+ Roll of Honour, financial disasters edition |- ! Scandal !! Date !! Jurisdiction !! Estimated Loss !! Gatekeepers !! Firings !! Jail-Time? |- FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried|| 2022 || US || $32bn (so far) || cluenessess, non-regulation, possible fraud || unclear but plenty in offing || Not clear yet |- |Barclays MTN Programme Limit || 2022|| US || £1.3bn || Internal Operations || None reported but you have to fear for those poor folk in ops. I beg your pardon? What poor folk in ops? Oh, Right. || 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 |- |Wirecard || 2020|| Germany || $4bn || CEO misrepresentations || All of them || Three charged with fraud including CEO |- |WeWork || 2019|| US || $11bn over three years|| CEO yogababble || Nothing to see here folks! Got a new venture to start up || No such luck. |- |Carillion || 2018|| UK || £7bn || Auditors || 3,000 jobs || No but litigation a-plenty |- |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 || ||

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