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    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, Netflix — the story of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

      New docuseries draws on interviews to explore the psychology of the ‘financial sociopath’

    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      FT AlphavilleRobert McCauley
      Why bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme

      A Ponzi scheme is a zero-sum enterprise. But bitcoin is a negative-sum phenomenon that you can’t even pursue a claim against, argues Robert McCauley.

    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      Obituary
      Bernard Madoff, criminal financier, 1938-2021

      Former Nasdaq chair who ran the world’s largest Ponzi scheme

    • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      US bank profits surge, Deutsche Bank’s recovery

      Three of the biggest American lenders report higher than expected profits

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      Ponzi mastermind Bernard Madoff dies aged 82

      Ex-investment adviser was imprisoned in 2009 after confessing to historic multibillion-dollar fraud

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      Madoff: three lessons from the world’s greatest Ponzi scheme

      Beware bond-like volatility with equity-like returns

    • Friday, 16 August, 2019
      News in-depthHarry Markopolos
      Harry Markopolos: the scourge of Madoff trains his sights on GE

      Vindicated over infamous Ponzi scheme, the financial sleuth is still waiting for a big payday

    • Monday, 25 February, 2019
      EU financial regulation
      Madoff victims accuse Luxembourg of failing to take action

      UBS fund investors say grand duchy regulator has not enforced its own rules

    • Sunday, 11 March, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Podcast: Ponzi Supernova — the electrifying story of Bernie Madoff

      The new series from Audible is a remarkable portrait of a charismatic conman

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2017
      US financial regulation
      Investors beware: the Ponzi scheme is thriving

      A scam promising profits from Hamilton ticket sales was recently uncovered

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2017
      US & Canadian companies
      Paulson & Co hedge fund manager dead in an apparent suicide
    • Friday, 17 March, 2017
      ObituaryObituary
      Stephen Ross, finance academic, 1944-2017

      The inventor of an asset pricing approach that aids smart funds

    • Sunday, 18 December, 2016
      Madison Marriage
      Esma and the invisible whistleblower hotline

      Madison Marriage challenges anyone reading this column to find the regulator’s hotline

    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2016
      Business education
      My pen pals, the white-collar criminals in jail

      What a Harvard Business School professor learnt corresponding with Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff

    • Wednesday, 13 January, 2016
      ReviewBooks
      Review: ‘The Confidence Game’, by Maria Konnikova

      Madoff and other con artists can fool anyone by using stories to play to the emotions

    • Friday, 11 December, 2015
      European companies
      Ex-Optimal fund manager acquitted in Madoff trial

      Manuel Echeverria cleared of charge of mismanaging fund that channelled money to Madoff

    • Thursday, 10 December, 2015
      US & Canadian companies
      Ex-fund manager ‘prevented’ checks on Madoff

      Verdict expected on Friday in case of Optimal head

    • Sunday, 6 December, 2015
      European companies
      Last fund manager charged in Madoff scandal goes on trial

      Guilty verdict could prompt US authorities to take fresh look at Santander settlement

    • Thursday, 26 March, 2015
      Special Report
      A new breed of commercial intelligence company

      The secret services have spawned a new breed of commercial intelligence company

    • Thursday, 19 March, 2015
      Recruitment
      William Zabel: Lawyer to the rich has a civil rights past still relevant today

      A lawyer best known for helping the divorcing rich divide their fortunes has a civil rights string to his bow

    • Friday, 19 December, 2014
      European companies
      Madoff risks return for Santander

      Swiss prosecutor weighs indictment of former Botín lieutenant

    • Monday, 17 November, 2014
      US & Canadian companies
      Recoveries for victims of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme top $10.3bn

      Nearly 60% of lost principal on course to be clawed back

    • Wednesday, 22 October, 2014
      Property sector
      GB cycling’s Shane Sutton hunts marginal gains in fund management

      Stockpickers are turning to cycling and behavioural economics

    • Wednesday, 3 September, 2014
      ObituaryUS & Canadian companies
      Andrew Madoff dies from cancer

      Son of fraudster Bernard Madoff loses battle with lymphoma

    • Tuesday, 8 July, 2014
      John Kay
      ‘Trust me, I am a financial adviser’ is not good enough

      The management of conflict of interest is a slippery slope, and one that Madoff would slide off

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