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[[FTX]]/[[Sam Bankman-Fried]]|| 2022 || US ||  $32bn (so far) || Hubris, stupidity, fraud || '''Fired''': Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison, SBF Fired.<br>'''Bankruptcies''': Alameda, Genesis, Blockfi.<br>'''Suspensions of trading''': Gemini<br>'''Reported Losses''': Crypto.com, Tiger Global Management, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, SoftBank Group, BlackRock, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Temasek, and Sequoia Capital reported losses of $1bn || Charged with wire fraud  conspiracy to commit securities fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., violation of campaign finance laws.
[[Credit Suisse]] || Switzerland || Gradual decline into entropy with a 92% decline in share price since 2015. || Hubris, widespread incompetence, stupidity, spying, uselessness. || Billions and billions over a series of avoidable cockups. || Like the old man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “I’m not dead. I think I’m going for a walk. I feel happy.” Market (to SNB): “Isn’t there anything you can do?”|| It is not, yet, a crime to make a series of howling cockups<ref>except where the individual cockups were themselves criminal of course</ref> over a credulity-defying period any more than it is a crime to not read an [[AT1]] [[prospectus]]. Reputations damaged for ever, but alas no porridge, however richly deserved it may seem.

Latest revision as of 11:15, 5 September 2023

Credit Suisse || Switzerland || Gradual decline into entropy with a 92% decline in share price since 2015. || Hubris, widespread incompetence, stupidity, spying, uselessness. || Billions and billions over a series of avoidable cockups. || Like the old man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “I’m not dead. I think I’m going for a walk. I feel happy.” Market (to SNB): “Isn’t there anything you can do?”|| It is not, yet, a crime to make a series of howling cockups[1] over a credulity-defying period any more than it is a crime to not read an AT1 prospectus. Reputations damaged for ever, but alas no porridge, however richly deserved it may seem.

  1. except where the individual cockups were themselves criminal of course