Duncan Mavin
Weekend Editor at Bloomberg News
Journalist at Bloomberg. Author of books on Credit Suisse and Lex Greensill, represented by https://t.co/xIV8ND2x5f
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2 months ago |
bloomberg.com | Duncan Mavin
When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio arrived in Rome for a papal conclave in March 2013, he brought only one small suitcase — the Jesuit from Argentina was not expecting to be elected the next pope. But elected he was, in a fifth-round ballot whose results appeared to reflect the desire for an outsider to reform the papal bureaucracy. Just over 12 years later, Pope Francis’s death sets the stage for a new conclave to decide who will shape the Catholic Church’s next era.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
bloomberg.com | Duncan Mavin
Two years after a digital bank run crashed Credit Suisse, hindsight shows that social media only partially explains the bank’s demise.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
literaryreview.co.uk | Duncan Mavin
Credit Suisse, founded as Schweizerische Kreditanstalt by Alfred Escher in 1856, was once an engine of Switzerland’s modernisation, funding both railways and infrastructure. However, by the time of its collapse last year, the bank had become a national embarrassment.
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Aug 6, 2024 |
simonandschuster.com | Duncan Mavin
The incredible story of a once-venerable Swiss bank that produced a litany of financial scandals and whose collapse reveals the amorality at the heart of the global banking system. Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of global banking. But a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, much dirtier reality.
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Nov 14, 2023 |
newstatesman.com | Duncan Mavin
David Cameron’s return to the Conservative front bench yesterday came as a surprise to most people. For anyone who understands his role in the Greensill Capital scandal, it is particularly shocking, because this is a scandal that is far from over. Greensill is still the focus of multiple criminal investigations, inquiries by British authorities and legal proceedings which relate not only to Cameron’s past as a lobbyist for the company but also to his new role as Foreign Secretary.
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RT @Bloatee1: Spies, lies and anonymous tips: the secret Credit Suisse files on Greensill Capital Great to see that the UK courts are tea…
"We were punch drunk": Fascinating to hear Lex Greensill confirm on the witness stand my reporting in Pyramid of Lies on the chaotic demise of his company. Several Credit Suisse execs mentioned in PoL and Meltdown also referenced by Lex today https://t.co/x6gV0kyygP
Would new Swiss bank rules have prevented the collapse of Credit Suisse? Read Meltdown and make up your own mind. UBS faces as much as $26 billion in fresh capital requirements under Swiss reform plans. https://t.co/JIH81Pbz9u