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Banco Ambrosiano 1982 : Comfort Letter as Collateral Fabrication & Jurisdictional Arbitrage with Sovereign Immunity | GP/LP Analysis — 3 Red Flags | EP60 T2
Season 2 Episode 60
A comfort letter is not a guarantee. It is a document that provides institutional credibility without legal enforceability — its value is entirely a …
1 month ago
Banco Ambrosiano 1982 : God's Banker Was Found Hanging Under Blackfriars Bridge With Bricks in His Pockets — EP60 T1
Season 1 Episode 60
On the morning of June 18, 1982, a postman crossing Blackfriars Bridge in London looked down at the Thames and saw Roberto Calvi hanging from the sca…
1 month ago
LIBOR 2012 : Self-Reported Benchmark Capture & Honor System Verification Failure | GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags | EP59 T2
Season 2 Episode 59
A benchmark rate calculated from self-reported, unverified submissions is not a market price. It is an opinion poll of the institutions whose trading…
1 month, 1 week ago
LIBOR 2012 : Every Morning at 11 AM, 16 Banks Sent a Number. Nobody Checked. $800 Trillion Priced Off the Result — EP59 T1
Season 1 Episode 59
Every morning at eleven AM London time, sixteen banks sent a number to the British Bankers' Association. The number was supposed to answer one questi…
1 month, 1 week ago
Silicon Valley Bank 2023: HTM Duration Mismatch & Social Media Bank Run Acceleration | GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags | EP58 T2
Season 2 Episode 58
This GP/LP technical episode dissects the SVB failure from the institutional perspective — the HTM accounting classification that deferred a $15 bil…
1 month, 1 week ago
Silicon Valley Bank 2023 : Solvent on Thursday. $42 Billion Gone by Friday. A Group Chat Ran the Bank — EP58 T1
Season 1 Episode 58
On Thursday, March 9, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank was solvent. Its capital ratios were above regulatory minimums. Its loan book was not impaired. By Fr…
1 month, 1 week ago
Credit Suisse 2023 : Reputation Run Mechanics & AT1 Contractual Wipeout | GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags | EP57 T2
Season 2 Episode 57
This GP/LP technical episode dissects the Credit Suisse failure from the institutional investor perspective — the reputation run mechanics that conv…
1 month, 1 week ago
Credit Suisse 2023 : $17 Billion in Bonds. Not One Payment Missed. FINMA Wrote Them to Zero Anyway — EP57 T1
Season 1 Episode 57
On March 19, 2023, Credit Suisse's AT1 bondholders lost seventeen billion Swiss francs. The bonds were performing. The coupon was current. The borrow…
1 month, 1 week ago
Luckin Coffee 2020 : 1,418 Investigators. 11,000 Hours of Video Surveillance. One Database Nasdaq Never Saw — EP56 T1
Season 1 Episode 56
It took ninety-two full-time investigators, fourteen hundred part-time staff, six hundred and twenty stores, and eleven thousand hours of video surve…
1 month, 1 week ago
Luckin Coffee 2020 : VIE Audit Gap & Circular Related-Party Revenue Fabrication | GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags | EP56 T2
Season 2 Episode 56
.This GP/LP technical episode dissects the two-database architecture in full detail — how the operations team maintained one database with real trans…
1 month, 1 week ago