{"product_id":"too-big-to-jail-inside-hsbc-the-mexican-drug-cartels-and-the-greatest-banking-scandal-of-the-century-paperback","title":"Too Big to Jail: Inside Hsbc, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Blackhurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you' - Oliver Bullough, author of \u003ci\u003eMoneyland \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eButler to the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom journalist Chris Blackhurst, \u003ci\u003e Too Big to Jail\u003c\/i\u003e unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations - and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile HSBC likes to sell itself as 'the world's local bank' - the friendly face of corporate and personal finance - it was one decade ago hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world, between 2003 and 2010, HSBC allowed El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most notorious and murderous criminal organizations in the world, to turn its ill-gotten money into clean dollars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow did a bank, which boasts 'we're committed to helping protect the world's financial system on which millions of people depend, by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency' come to facilitate Mexico's richest drug baron? And how did a bank that as recently as 2002 had been named 'one of the best-run organizations in the world' become so entwined with one of the most barbaric groups of gangsters on the planet? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eToo Big to Jail \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary story, brilliantly told by writer, commentator and former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, Chris Blackhurst, that starts in Hong Kong and ranges across London, Washington, the Cayman Islands and Mexico, where HSBC saw the opportunity to become the largest bank in the world, and El Chapo seized the chance to fuel his murderous empire by laundering his drug proceeds through the bank. It brings together an extraordinary cast of politicians, bankers, drug dealers, FBI officers and whistle-blowers, and asks what price does greed have? Whose job is it to police global finance? And why did not a single person go to prison for facilitating the murderous expansion of a global drug empire?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Blackhurst is an award-winning business writer and commentator. He is a former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e and for ten years was City editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Evening Standard.\u003c\/i\u003e Before that he worked for \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e on its business pages and Insight investigative team. He covered Westminster for several years for \u003ci\u003eThe Independent, \u003c\/i\u003e and for twenty years conducted the main interviews in \u003ci\u003eManagement Today\u003c\/i\u003e magazine with senior business and financial figures. His journalism has appeared in many of the world's major publications. \u003ci\u003eToo Big to Jail \u003c\/i\u003eis Blackhurst's first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.77 x 5.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765445361952,"sku":"9781529065077","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d96aab103eced44fd5b57a6e5aab376d.webp?v=1780269936","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/too-big-to-jail-inside-hsbc-the-mexican-drug-cartels-and-the-greatest-banking-scandal-of-the-century-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}