Meltdown

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?

Auteur

Duncan Mavin is a seasoned international financial journalist, having started his career as a chartered accountant in the City and in Toronto. He has been a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and was the Journal's Financial Editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has also been Managing Editor for Barron's Group and a reporter for Canada's National Post, and he's the bestselling author of "Britain's version of Bad Blood", the Lex Greensill exposé Pyramid of Lies. He lives with his family in the UK, and is a long-suffering fan of Sunderland football club.

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