Ivar Kreuger, 52, matchmaker and moneylender to many nations, arrived in Paris last week. His pallid face was whiter than usual, and drawn. He had just been in the U. S., seeking loans for his ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Human nature being what it is, at any given moment there is always a certain amount of embezzlement going on in a country’s banks and businesses. Though the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Uri Singer and talent manager and producer Orlando John have joined forces to secure adaptation rights to Frank Partnoy’s book The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius ...

ONLY occasionally does literature throw up great swindlers, like Anthony Trollope's Augustus Melmotte. Real rogues are far more common. A new biography of Ivar Kreuger, who perpetrated perhaps the ...

Last week the stockholders of Swedish Match Co., meeting at Jönköping, Sweden, approved a new stock issue of 1,100,000 Class B shares. Next day Manhattan newspapers noted briefly that a readjustment ...

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Boom times are always accompanied by fraud. As the Victorian journalist Walter Bagehot put it: "All people are most credulous when they are most happy; and when money has been made . . . there is a ...

Frank Partnoy is an author to take seriously. A former derivatives salesman, his 2003 book, “Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets,” convincingly predicted how Wall ...