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(Created page with "On July 29, 2021 the Credit Suisse Special Committee to the Board of Directors 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 published to it to t...")
 
 
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===The broker that didn’t bark in the night-time===
===The broker that didn’t bark in the night-time===
Time for some more theatre.
Time for some more theatre, courtesy of our old favourite, {{Otto}}.
{{Quote|
{{Quote|{{dkt nothing from nothing}}
KING LEAR: Now, our joy,
:— {{buchstein}}: {{br|Talentdämmerung}}, I, iii}}
Although the last, not least; to whose young leverage <br>
Thine holdings in thinly traffick’d names, rich in outrageous voguery<br>
Did bunch, distil, concentrate and conspire their margin lenders yet to o’er-extend;<br>
How fared thy numbers, Sirrah? What can you say? <br>
Will a grimace itself engrave upon that storied countenance? What did you lose? Speak. <br>
GOLDMAN: Nothing, my lord. <br>
KING LEAR Nothing? <br>
GOLDMAN: Nothing. <br>
KING LEAR: Nothing will come of nothing, fair [[Vampire squid|squidly vampire]]: speak again. <br>
:—Shakespeare: ''Tiger King Lear'', I, iii}}
 
What follows is heavily derivative and based on assumptions and extrapolations from a single footnote and may — most likely is, in fact — entirely mistaken. Nevertheless, even if it is, it illustrates an interesting hypothetical.
What follows is heavily derivative and based on assumptions and extrapolations from a single footnote and may — most likely is, in fact — entirely mistaken. Nevertheless, even if it is, it illustrates an interesting hypothetical.


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*[[Fraud]] risk
*[[Fraud]] risk
*Poor risk management practices and procedures
*Poor risk management practices and procedures
===The gift that keeps giving====
{{sa}}
*{{CS report}}
*[[Informal systems]]
{{ref}}
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