Meltdown

• Verfasst von: Mavin, Duncan [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Meltdown
• Titelzusatz: greed, scandal, and the collapse of Credit Suisse
• Mitwirkende: Armstrong, Charles [ErzählerIn]
• Verf.angabe: Duncan Mavin
• Ausgabe: Unabridged.
• Verlagsort: Rego Park
• Verlag: Ascent Audio
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: 1 online resource (1 audio file (08 hr., 03 min., 28 sec.))
• Fussnoten: Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrvie, viewed March 17, 2025)
• ISBN: 978-1-6637-5161-4
• ISBN: 1-6637-5161-7
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Banques ; Faillites ; Suisse
• Form-SW: Audiobooks
• Form-SW: Livres audio
• K10plus-PPN: 1924465558
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext
• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
• Bibliothek/Idn: UW / m4718995108
• Lokale URL Inst.: Zum Volltext

Abstract

The incredible story of a once-venerable Swiss bank that produced a litany of financial scandals and whose collapse reveals the amorality at the heart of the global banking system.Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of global banking. But a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, much dirtier reality. From its sterile Zurich headquarters, Credit Suisse banked dictators and drug dealers, hid stolen Nazi gold, and helped corrupt bankers fleece the firm's own clients of billions of dollars. Its top executives oversaw a global operation that laundered money for autocrats; they hired spies to track one another through the cobbled streets of the Swiss financial capital; and they helped clients hide their money from the world's tax authorities. This is the story of a tawdry total meltdown of one of the biggest, most influential, and most scandal-ridden banks on the planet.Duncan Mavin is uniquely sourced to tell the story of Credit Suisse's scandal-ridden demise, with dozens of inside-the-room contacts. The bank's collapse was the biggest shock to the financial system since the Financial Crisis of 2008, and sparked a media frenzy. But only Duncan has had access to key sources within the bank's executive suite--including former CEOs--and the inner circle that brings this critical, rollicking story to life.