Monday, Dec 15, 2008

Coming out of the woodwork

FT: HSBC joins victims of Madoff’s alleged fraud

HSBC has emerged as one the largest victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged fraud with potential exposure of about $1bn to the investment manager’s collapsed venture, according to people close to the situation

Posted by gardeniadotnet @ 07:12 AM (525 views) Add Comment

8 Comments

1. 51ck-6-51x said...

RBS @ $601m
Man @ $360m
source: ShareCast

Monday, December 15, 2008 07:58AM Report Comment
 

2. Eternal Sceptic said...

Now maybe the whole world will realise that sophisticated financial instruments equal garbage. But how many of the vendors will go to jail?

Monday, December 15, 2008 08:09AM Report Comment
 

3. gardeniadotnet said...

Santander fears 'fraud' loss exceeding €2.3bn

The Times
December 15, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008 08:14AM Report Comment
 

4. crunchy said...

We have no idea of how much rot remains in the system.
Drip, drip, drip.
All bets are off.

Monday, December 15, 2008 09:05AM Report Comment
 

5. last_days_of_disco said...

I wonder how many more of these things there are out there? It makes you wonder what the FSA and the Securities and exchange commission ahve been doing. I can understand them missing a few small fish, but something of this size should have been easy to spot.

Monday, December 15, 2008 10:12AM Report Comment
 

6. mrmickey said...

This shows what a bankrupt society we live in, this is just a high profile case, how many other frauds will we never hear about because the sums are smaller, it all adds up in the end to one massive fraud.

Monday, December 15, 2008 10:15AM Report Comment
 

7. jack c said...

Citywire also running the story www.citywire.co.uk/adviser/-/news/market-and-shares/content.aspx?ID=323905&re=4387&ea=118560

The 70-year old Madoff, a Wall Street stalwart who was chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange during his career, is accused of running a massive fraud operation over many years, using new investments into his business to pay off earlier investors.

Monday, December 15, 2008 10:21AM Report Comment
 

8. mark said...

there will be many frauds like this, after all boom time is easy to defraud everyone...

Monday, December 15, 2008 12:12PM Report Comment
 

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