In a world where your hiding places are suddenly exposed, where do you put your skeletons? This is more than the story of Credit Suisse, a bank that failed; it's an investigation into greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking. When it folded in March 2023, it sent shockwaves through the world of high finance.Why was such a big bank allowed to fail?Who was responsible?And ultimately, could it have been avoided?From international financial journalist and author of the bestselling Pyramid of Lies, Duncan Mavin, Meltdown is the fascinating history of one of the biggest financial institutions of our times, which forces you to ask the question: in a modern world of free knowledge and information, will big banks ever be allowed to survive again?
And, more importantly, should they be?
| ISBN: | 9781035037476 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2024 |
| Author: | Duncan Mavin |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Business an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Banking True crime Corporate finance Corruption in politics, government and society |
In a world where your hiding places are suddenly exposed, where do you put your skeletons? This is more than the story of Credit Suisse, a bank that failed; it's an investigation into greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking.
Meltdown features in the following genres: Banking, True crime, Corporate finance, Corruption in politics, government and society
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Meltdown was written by Duncan Mavin and published by Macmillan Business an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Meltdown has 352 pages