Too Big to Jail
inside hsbc, the mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century
$57.03
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2022
Summary
The World’s Local Bank: How HSBC Laundered Money for the Sinaloa Cartel
‘Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you’ - Oliver Bullough, author of Butler to the World
Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank’, the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for ‘drug kingpins and rogue nations’.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529065039 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529065038 |
| Author: | Chris Blackhurst |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 526g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 161mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you … if it doesn’t make you angry, you need to check your pulse – Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the World
The sheer hubris, greed and arrogance of bankers is laid bare in shocking, and at times hilarious, detail. Blackhurst takes them on and pricks their bubble of self-congratulatory entitlement
– Andrew NeilFull of extraordinary revelations. Epic story-telling about a shocking scandal. Read this!
– Iain Martin, author of Making It HappenBlackhurst’s tale would make an exciting novel. But alarmingly, this is a true story, carefully researched and told with gusto – Baroness Patience Wheatcroft, former editor of The Sunday TelegraphA pacey, page turning thriller tale of banking collusion with extreme criminality – Brian Basham, veteran financial PR man and chairman of Equity Development[Blackhurst] writes with gusto … a diverting book * The Times Literary Supplement *Blackhurst’s attention to detail is excellent, as is his lucid analysis * The Australian *Highly entertaining … told with pace, gusto, and a strong sense of moral outrage * The Critic Magazine *About The Author
Chris Blackhurst
Chris Blackhurst is an award-winning business writer and commentator. He is a former editor of The Independent and for ten years was City editor of the Evening Standard. Before that he worked for The Sunday Times on its business pages and Insight investigative team. He covered Westminster for several years for The Independent, and for twenty years conducted the main interviews in Management Today magazine with senior business and financial figures. His journalism has appeared in many of the world’s major publications. Too Big to Jail is Blackhurst’s first book.
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