Barclays faces legal scrutiny over role in £90m ‘Ponzi scheme within a Ponzi scheme’ Banking Barclays could be on the hook for as much as £37m over its role in a collapsed ‘Ponzi scheme’ after failing to dismiss claims brought by the company’s liquidators. The FTSE 100 finance giant provided banking services to a company called Denaro from 2013 until its demise a decade later, at which point it faced [...]
HSBC: FTSE 100 lender’s profit slumps as legal costs jump Banking Europe’s biggest lender, HSBC reported better-than-expected revenue in the third quarter, but recorded a double digit decline in profit as it set aside over a billion dollars following a fresh ruling on the Bernie Madoff fraud scheme. HSBC’s pre-tax profit fell to $7.3bn (£5.4bn) in the three months to September 30, a fall of nearly [...]
Scammer City boss on the hook for £64m after fraud scheme Investing A City boss compared to the The Wolf Of Wall Street has been ordered to pay back £64m over his role in a multi-million pound Ponzi-style investment scam, prosecutors said. Anthony Constantinou remains on the run after he fled the UK during his fraud trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court in June 2023. Hundreds of [...]
ETF Ponzi funds: How market bubbles are born every day May 28, 2024 'Ponzi funds' chasing a small number of stocks are inflating asset prices by as much as $500m every day, a new paper has revealed.