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Collapse of Greensill Capital II

Collapse of Greensill Capital II

Faisal Sheikh

25 years: Wealth and risk management specialist

In the previous video, Faisal Sheikh outlined the players involved in the collapse of Greensill Capital. In this video, Faisal explains the relationship between Greensill Capital and Credit Suisse and the involvement of Tokio Marine Management in Greensill's collapse.

In the previous video, Faisal Sheikh outlined the players involved in the collapse of Greensill Capital. In this video, Faisal explains the relationship between Greensill Capital and Credit Suisse and the involvement of Tokio Marine Management in Greensill's collapse.

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Collapse of Greensill Capital II

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Overview:

Greensill Capital collapsed owing £2.7bn to creditors, including to thousands of high net worth clients of Credit Suisse Wealth Management who had provided Greensill with an estimated $10 billion in financing. The collapse was triggered when Tokio Marine Management decided not to extend insurance policies covering the risk of default on the supply chain funds that Greensill had sold to Credit Suisse clients.

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Summary

Why were Credit Suisse and Greensill Capital working together?

Lex Greensill was a personal client of Credit Suisse’s Wealth Management business. Greensill pitched the idea that Credit Suisse create funds for its high net worth clients that would hold securitised supply chain receivables made up of Greensill invoices. These were then promoted as safe, highly rated and fully insured by Credit Suisse. 

How did the withdrawal of insurance coverage trigger the insurance?

Tokio Marine Management provided the insurance on the funds sold by Credit Suisse. The insurance aspect was vitally important as it provided protection that should companies selling invoices default on money owed on the funds the insurance firms could make up some of the losses.

Once this insurance was removed Credit Suisse had no option but to freeze clients’ investment supply chain funds. It warned that it could itself face a financial charge stemming from the collapse of Greensill Capital through its own direct lending of $190 million, more importantly its wealth management clients were likely to suffer significant losses on their supply chain funds when fully liquidated. By freezing the flow of money GFG Alliance fell into crisis as its flow of financing ran dry. Greensill was unable to replace the insurance with another insurer. 

The decision not to extend the insurance coverage was caused by concerns at the close and significant relationship between Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta and reports in the press of concerns as well as regulatory investigations in Germany.

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Faisal Sheikh

Faisal Sheikh

Faisal is a wealth management professional has spent almost 30 years working in the field of risk management, risk control, internal auditing in the financial services and public sector. Most recently, Faisal was the Head of Risk for the Wealth Management business of UBS in the UK. He has also extensive international experience across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. He has also a served as CISI operational risk expert panel member.

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