Meltdown : Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse

<p><b>In a world where your hiding places are suddenly exposed, where do you put your skeletons?

This is more than the story of Credit Suisse, a bank that failed; its an investigation into greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.</b><br><br>Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking.

When it folded in March 2023, it sent shockwaves through the world of high finance.<br><br>Why was such a big bank allowed to fail?<br><br>Who was responsible?<br><br>And ultimately, could it have been avoided?<br><br>From international financial journalist and author of the bestselling <i>Pyramid of Lies,</i> Duncan Mavin, <i>Meltdown </i>is the fascinating history of one of the biggest financial institutions of our times, which forces you to ask the question: in a modern world of free knowledge and information, will big banks ever be allowed to survive again? And, more importantly, should they be?</p>