Financial markets
banks, insurance companies, brokers
Six Billion Dollar Bet
| Frontline | Nearly four years after the financial crisis, yet another scandal rocks Wall Street. Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 with oversize ambition and…
The Untouchables
| Frontline | FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages.
The Retirement Gamble
| Frontline | The Retirement Gamble raises troubling questions about how America’s financial institutions protect our retirement savings.
To Catch a Trader
| Frontline | Correspondent Martin Smith goes inside the government’s ongoing, seven-year crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively-obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps of other traders, and interviews with both Wall Street and…
- 2014
- Insider trading
Unmasking the Pyramid Kings: Crowd1 scam targets
| BBC | The best scams always come in disguise. And Crowd1 is the most audacious scam we’ve ever seen. It looks like a high-tech marketing business that’s making a ton of money for people across Africa. All you need…
- 2020
- Pyramid scheme
Wirecard and the missing €1.9bn: my story
| © The Financial Times Limited 2021 | Surveillance, spear phishing and missing billions. ‘At times I thought I was going crazy.’ Dan McCrum explains the twists and turns behind the massive fraud.
- 2020
- Financial fraud
Cashing in
| Tomorrow Unlocked | Episode 1: ‘ATM Jackpotting’: Episode one describes how ATMs were manipulated during the Carbanak operation and explains how security researcher Barnaby Jack first became aware of ATM vulnerabilities in 2010. Episode 2: ‘Welcome to Taiwan’: The…
- 2019
- Money Laundering, Cybercrime