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It may now wish it had been given the rubber glove treatment while the going was good. For its peers seem — and look, its ''always'' to early to say this sort of thing, but for now, they ''seem'' — the better for it: they look to have learned lessons about how banks should behave that Credit Suisse, apparently, did not.
It may now wish it had been given the rubber glove treatment while the going was good. For its peers seem — and look, its ''always'' to early to say this sort of thing, but for now, they ''seem'' — the better for it: they look to have learned lessons about how banks should behave that Credit Suisse, apparently, did not.
===A gradual, but insistent, descent into the abyss===
===A gradual, but insistent, descent into the abyss===
So here we now are: after a period of seven or more years in which Credit Suisse seemingly was drawn, like a moth to a candle, to every financial catastrophe going — its spying on its own executives, Malachite, [[Archegos]], Greensill, Evergrande, [[Covid-19]], 1MDB, [[tax]] evasion, lockdown breaches, serial [[KYC]] and [[money laundering]] breaches, Bulgarian drug trafficking, a $500 million insurance fraud on the Georgian prime minister, $850m Mozambique tuna bonds fraud, and diverse sanction breaches — things looked like they were reaching an end-game in 2023 following the failure of the [[Silicon Valley Bank]] and a sudden market-wide loss of confidence in the Swiss lender.  
So here we now are: after a period of seven or more years in which Credit Suisse seemingly was drawn, like a moth to a candle, to every financial catastrophe going — its spying on its own executives, Malachite, [[Archegos]], Greensill, Evergrande, [[Covid-19]], 1MDB, [[tax]] evasion, lockdown breaches, serial [[KYC]] and [[money laundering]] breaches, Bulgarian drug trafficking, a $500 million insurance fraud on the Georgian prime minister, $850m [[Mozambique tuna bonds]] fraud, and diverse sanction breaches — things looked like they were reaching an end-game in 2023 following the failure of the [[Silicon Valley Bank]] and a sudden market-wide loss of confidence in the Swiss lender.  
===Ironic endgame===
===Ironic endgame===
The irony in all of this? The [[SVB]] collapse was perhaps the first major financial scandal in a decade that old “Lucky” the one-eyed dog had nothing to to with whatsoever.  
The irony in all of this? The [[SVB]] collapse was perhaps the first major financial scandal in a decade that old “Lucky” the one-eyed dog had nothing to to with whatsoever.