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A corporate collapse typically involves the insolvency or bankruptcy of a major business enterprise. A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved false or inappropriate accounting of some sort (see list at ...
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis ( GFC ), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. Predatory lending in the form of subprime mortgages targeting low-income homebuyers, [1] excessive risk-taking by global financial institutions, [2] a continuous buildup of toxic assets within banks ...
The 2007–2008 financial crisis led to many bank failures in the United States. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed 465 failed banks from 2008 to 2012. [2] In contrast, in the five years prior to 2008, only 10 banks failed. [2] [3] At the end of 2022, the US banking industry had a total of about $620 billion in unrealized ...
UBS Group AG building in St. Gallen.UBS maintains strict banking secrecy practices which have been used to facilitate tax evasion. The Swiss investment bank and financial services company, UBS Group AG, has been at the center of numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking ...
American International Group, Inc. ( AIG) is an American multinational finance and insurance corporation with operations in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. [6] As of 2023, AIG employed 25,200 people. [2] The company operates through three core businesses: general insurance, life & retirement, and a standalone technology-enabled ...
Beginning of October. The policy response to the subprime crisis started in earnest after Lehman's failure in mid September 2008, accelerated after February 2009, and had become very large by September 2009. Governments have relied on a portfolio of intervention tools, but the biggest commitments and outlays have been in the form of debt and ...
In December 2011, Public Campaign criticized Wells Fargo for spending $11 million on lobbying during 2008–2010, while increasing executive pay and laying off workers, while having no federal tax liability due to losses from the Great Recession. However, in 2013, the company paid $9.1 billion in income taxes.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the " bank bailout of 2008 " or the " Wall Street bailout ", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks. The bill was proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, passed ...