Wirecard's Markus Braun: schmoozing the elite with tech twaddle
Wirecard's Markus Braun: schmoozing the elite with tech twaddle
Markus Braun, the self-styled tech visionary behind failed German tech firm Wirecard, was adept at fooling the gullible. There were red flags from the…
4 Jul 2020
Ben Francis: how I made £138m before the age of 30
Ben Francis: how I made £138m before the age of 30
At the age of 19, Ben Francis spent £1,000 in savings on a sewing machine and screen printer, and learnt how to make garments for the bodybuilding sce…
1 Jul 2020
Great frauds in history: Nick Leeson – the man who broke Barings Bank
Great frauds in history: Nick Leeson – the man who broke Barings Bank
"Rogue trader" Nick Leeson’s losses cost his employer, Barings Bank, an estimated £860m, plunging it into bankruptcy.
1 Jul 2020
Tatyana Bakalchuk: the woman creating a Russian Amazon
Tatyana Bakalchuk: the woman creating a Russian Amazon
Wildberries, the business Tatyana Bakalchuk founded in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave in 2004, has become Russia’s leading ecommerce si…
30 Jun 2020
Abigail Forsyth and KeepCup: riding a green wave to profits
Abigail Forsyth and KeepCup: riding a green wave to profits
KeepCup’s sustainable branding captured the public mood about the environmental costs of disposable cups.
29 Jun 2020
Great frauds in history: Nevin Shapiro’s groceries scam
Great frauds in history: Nevin Shapiro’s groceries scam
Nevin Shapiro's "grocery diverting" business was in reality nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.
24 Jun 2020
Lee Jae-yong: Samsung’s heir remains trapped in limbo
Lee Jae-yong: Samsung’s heir remains trapped in limbo
Lee Jae-yong inherited the reins of the technology giant from his father. His struggles to retain control of the firm – and to stay out of jail – have…
22 Jun 2020
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Stanley Ho: the man who made Asia’s Las Vegas
Stanley Ho: the man who made Asia’s Las Vegas
Stanley Ho, who died last month, arrived in a dying fishing port as a young man with just ten dollars to his name. He transformed his new home into a …
12 Jun 2020
Great frauds in history: Arthur Nadel’s day-trading scam
Great frauds in history: Arthur Nadel’s day-trading scam
When failed lawyer Arthur Nadel's hedge fund collapsed, it claimed to have $350m in assets. But it had just $500,000 in the bank.
10 Jun 2020
Arnaud Lagardère: Dad, I shrunk the empire
Arnaud Lagardère: Dad, I shrunk the empire
Arnaud Lagardère, heir of the Lagardère business empire, has been bailed out by the French establishment – again. But this time he is determined to pr…
8 Jun 2020
Great frauds in history: Jean-Pierre van Rossem's money-making machine
Great frauds in history: Jean-Pierre van Rossem's money-making machine
Jean-Pierre van Rossem told investors he had a supercomputer able to make money by predicting market movements. He didn't.
3 Jun 2020
Masayoshi Son: the God of tech tests the faithful
Masayoshi Son: the God of tech tests the faithful
Masayoshi Son, the founder of Japanese tech giant Softbank, has had a bad crisis. He has bounced back before, and will do again, he insists. It wouldn…
1 Jun 2020
Top four financial villains of the last 20 years
Top four financial villains of the last 20 years
Despite MoneyWeek’s 1,000 issues, we struggled to find a page of material on people we considered particularly worthy of honour. We were spoilt for ch…
26 May 2020
Great frauds in history... Lee B. Farkas’s dodgy mortgages
Great frauds in history... Lee B. Farkas’s dodgy mortgages
Lee Bentley Farkas transformed TBW into one of the largest mortgage brokers in the US – his fraud is reckoned to have cost around €3bn.
20 May 2020
The making of Warren Buffett
The making of Warren Buffett
The man who “triumphed in the long game by practising a simpler, purer version of capitalism” is widely hailed as the world’s greatest living investor…
17 May 2020
Great frauds in history: the downfall of Ferdinand Ward – the "Napoleon of finance"
Great frauds in history: the downfall of Ferdinand Ward – the "Napoleon of finance"
Ferdinand Ward launched a Ponzi-style scheme based on fictitious government contracts, bringing down the Marine National Bank.
14 May 2020
Julian Hearn: taking the hassle out of lunch
Julian Hearn: taking the hassle out of lunch
Julian Hearn developed Huel as a "functional" food to replace meals for the time-poor.
13 May 2020
Kate Daly: why you should break up with divorce lawyers
Kate Daly: why you should break up with divorce lawyers
After a particularly acrimonious and expensive divorce, Kate Daly quit her job to set up a service to help couples separate without rancour.
12 May 2020
Nicolai Tangen: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund changes hands
Nicolai Tangen: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund changes hands
Nicolai Tangen, a risk-loving, jet-setting financier and hedge-fund manager, has been made head of the sovereign-wealth fund. Is he the right man for …
11 May 2020
Elizabeth Davis: how I invented my own beauty products
Elizabeth Davis: how I invented my own beauty products
Ex-engineer Elizabeth Davis formulated her own products in her spare time to gain an edge in the ultra-competitive beauty industry.
11 May 2020
Great frauds in history: OPM Leasing Services
Great frauds in history: OPM Leasing Services
Childhood friends Mordecai Weissman and Myron Goodman siphoned off huge amounts of money from their company to spend on mansions, a private jet and a …
6 May 2020
Bill Gates: the rebooting of a reputation
Bill Gates: the rebooting of a reputation
Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates was once widely criticised as a merciless monopolist. But he has tried to reinvent himself as a global health philanthr…
4 May 2020