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{{Quote|It is no longer too soon, for on July 29, 2021 the Credit Suisse Special Committee to the Board of Directors has presented its ''{{plainlink|https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/archegos-info-kit.html|Report on Archegos Capital Management}}'' to the board and, for reasons known only to the board,<ref>''What on Earth did they think they would achieve by releasing this report?'' It caused ''another'' precipitous drop in the firm’s stock price — nearly four percent — to go with the twenty percent drop it suffered when news of the default first broke.</ref> they have published to it to the world, a final act of self-harm from an organisation whose serial acts of self-harm the report catalogues in clinical detail.  
{{Quote|It is no longer too soon, for on July 29, 2021 the Credit Suisse Special Committee to the Board of Directors has presented its {{credit suisse archegos report}} to the board and, for reasons known only to the board,<ref>''What on Earth did they think they would achieve by releasing this report?'' It caused ''another'' precipitous drop in the firm’s stock price — nearly four percent — to go with the twenty percent drop it suffered when news of the default first broke.</ref> they have published to it to the world, a final act of self-harm from an organisation whose serial acts of self-harm the report catalogues in clinical detail.  


That said, it is an act of self-harm for which the watching world should feel tremendously grateful. Not only a sizzling read, arriving just in time for Bank executives as they head for a fortnight to the sun loungers of Mykonos and Ibiza, but a beautifully clear explanation of the [[equity prime brokerage]] business in particular and global markets broking in general, and a coruscating indictment of the way large organisations of all kinds operate.  
That said, it is an act of self-harm for which the watching world should feel tremendously grateful. Not only a sizzling read, arriving just in time for Bank executives as they head for a fortnight to the sun loungers of Mykonos and Ibiza, but a beautifully clear explanation of the [[equity prime brokerage]] business in particular and global markets broking in general, and a coruscating indictment of the way large organisations of all kinds operate.