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    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Greensill Capital
      Credit Suisse financed Greensill’s plan to set up insurance firm

      Swiss bank provided a $140mn loan just five months before the company collapsed

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Greensill Capital
      UK strips guarantee from £400mn of Greensill loans to Gupta-linked companies

      British Business Bank that administered emergency Covid lending scheme withdraws guarantee on loans to metals tycoon

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      Greensill Capital
      Taxpayers face losses on loan to Lex Greensill’s neighbour

      British Business Bank opens fresh investigation into alleged abuse of Covid lending schemes

    • Monday, 4 April, 2022
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill Capital accused of fraud as battle to recoup losses intensifies

      Tokio Marine says insurance policies ‘fraudulently obtained’ while Credit Suisse says litigation could last five years

    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill offered GAM share options as it pitched for funding

      Swiss fund manager was offered 12.5 per cent stake in finance firm in 2016

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Credit Suisse disputes SoftBank chief’s account of Greensill deal

      Swiss bank claims ‘material discrepancy’ between Masayoshi Son’s words and email from Lex Greensill

    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Credit Suisse fires two managers responsible for Greensill funds

      More departures expected as bank prepares to publish findings of probe

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      GAM Holding AG
      UK regulator fines GAM and former star trader after bond scandal

      Financial Conduct Authority says Swiss asset manager and Tim Haywood failed to manage conflicts of interest

    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill gave neighbour’s business a taxpayer-backed Covid loan

      Lex Greensill and businessman Barnabas Borbely lobbied local council to adopt controversial supply-chain finance model

    • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Watchdog finds no evidence Greensill NHS scheme benefited taxpayer

      Findings from National Audit Office probe into collapsed lender undercuts claims of £100m annual savings

    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      GFG’s timetable slips for refinancing $5bn of Greensill debt

      Cooling commodity markets threaten Sanjeev Gupta’s battle to preserve his sprawling metals conglomerate

    • Monday, 20 September, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Credit Suisse charges investors to prop up Greensill Capital

      Clients facing billions in losses are furious but Swiss bank cites need to keep collapsed company ticking over to recoup funds

    • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      How SoftBank’s dalliance with Greensill ended in disaster

      After coming unstuck on WeWork, the Japanese group pulled out all the stops to save its next investment

    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill ‘leveraged’ position in government for ‘marketing platform’

      Downing Street inquiry criticises way financier was appointed as adviser and calls for greater transparency

    • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Greensill scandal is about more than sleaze

      The Treasury and regulators need to consider their responsibilities

    • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
      Heywood’s widow fears Greensill inquiry will heap blame on late Whitehall chief

      Suzanne Heywood says review will point finger at her husband for bringing financier into government

    • Monday, 12 July, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill Capital paid Cameron salary of more than $1m a year

      Former prime minister said to have made in excess of $40,000 a day from collapsed finance firm

    • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
      Whitehall reform
      Hancock affair highlights opaque world of Whitehall non-execs

      Ministers usually make final decision on appointments, despite part of role being to scrutinise government

    • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill Capital’s insurers claim they were misled by the finance group

      Allegations in report from administrator to Greensill Bank threaten to complicate efforts to recoup losses

    • Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
      Greensill Capital
      MPs hear Whitehall ethics chief had concerns over Lex Greensill role

      Australian financier’s unpaid job in Cabinet Office said to have made officials ‘uncomfortable’

    • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Trafigura warned Credit Suisse over Gupta invoice last year

      Commodities trading house raised concern in July 2020 over a bill it apparently owed one of industrialist’s companies

    • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      How Swiss asset managers opened their doors to Lex Greensill

      Adviser David Solo played key role as GAM and Credit Suisse funded group’s expansion

    • Thursday, 27 May, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak defends Treasury’s dealings with Greensill Capital

      Officials met company 10 times after lobbying by former prime minister David Cameron

    • Tuesday, 18 May, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill critic Myners discussed taking role at firm, emails show

      Former city minister inquired about position after likening company to a Ponzi scheme

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Greensill hearing: David Cameron grilled by MPs over failed lender - as it happened
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