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TD Bank 2024: AML Program Adequacy vs Flat Cost Paradigm │GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags │EP70 T2
Season 2 Episode 70
This GP/LP technical episode dissects the institutional failure: how a flat compliance budget applied to a rapidly growing retail bank created a stru…
1 month ago
TD Bank 2024 : The Bank That Grew Fastest in North America But Kept Its AML Budget Flat for a Decade — EP70 T1
Season 1 Episode 70
This is the financial autopsy of TD Bank — the largest Bank Secrecy Act violation in US history. Between 2014 and 2024, TD Bank intentionally exclude…
1 month ago
GPB Capital 2018 : Distribution Coverage Ratio Failure & Broker-Dealer Due Diligence Gaps │GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags│EP69 T2
Season 2 Episode 69
This GP/LP technical episode dissects the full mechanism: the Reg D disclosure gaps, the commission-to-yield mismatch, the auditor resignation signal…
1 month ago
GPB Capital 2018 : The Auditor Resigned. The FBI Raided. Seventeen Thousand Retail Investors Lost $1.8 Billion — EP69 T1
Season 1 Episode 69
This is the financial autopsy of GPB Capital Holdings — the Regulation D private placement fund that raised $1.8 billion from 17,000 retail investors…
1 month ago
Signa Group 2023 : Circular Valuation Architecture & Related-Party Rent Mechanism │GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags│EP68 T2
Season 2 Episode 68
This GP/LP technical episode breaks down the full circular mechanism, the role of the nearly 1,000-entity holding structure, and the tenant insolvenc…
1 month ago
Signa Group 2023 : The Buildings Were Real But the Rents Came From Its Own Losing Companies. The Valuations Were Circular — EP68 T1
Season 1 Episode 68
This is the financial autopsy of Signa Group — the largest real estate collapse in Europe since 2008. René Benko built a €27 billion portfolio of pri…
1 month ago
Reza Zarrab & Halkbank 2013–2016 : How $20 Billion in Iranian Oil Money Moved Through the US Banking System Disguised as Food Purchases - EP67 T1
Season 1 Episode 67
This is the financial autopsy of one of the largest sanctions evasion cases in US history: the two-phase operation (gold exports followed by fabricat…
1 month ago
Reza Zarrab & Halkbank 2016 : Sovereign Compliance Gap & Correspondent Banking Risk │GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flag│EP67 T2
Season 2 Episode 67
This GP/LP technical episode dissects the sovereign compliance gap mechanism, how it exploited the US correspondent banking system, and the instituti…
1 month ago
Lebanon Banking Collapse 2019 : The Banks Closed Their Doors and Kept the Money. No Law. No Court Order. Just an Informal Agreement — EP66 T1
Season 1 Episode 66
This is the financial autopsy of the Lebanon banking collapse — the sovereign-bank doom loop that turned a twenty-year institutional Ponzi scheme int…
1 month ago
Lebanon 2019 : Sovereign-Bank Doom Loop Mechanism & Circular Insolvency │ GP/LP Analysis — 3 Red Flags │ EP66 T2
Season 2 Episode 66
This GP/LP technical episode dissects the full sovereign-bank doom loop architecture: the circular dependency between BDL, commercial banks, and the …
1 month ago