Financial Forensics: The Due Diligence Files
Sergio StiebenForensic dissection of capital markets collapses. Not headlines — mechanisms. How money moved. Where structures broke. T1 — Full autopsy. The collapse, the actors, the moment nobody stopped it. T2 — GP/LP room. 3 red flags in the documents. Due diligence questions. Active parallels in deals running today. For allocators, GPs, and fund professionals. Hosted by Sergio Stieben — 15 years in GP/LP rel... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 286 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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This GP and LP institutional analysis details the mechanics of liquidity velocity versus static solvency metrics within point-of-non-viability resolution jurisdictions. I have reviewed distressed debt portfolios where credit underwriting over-indexed... more
A company worth one-point-three billion euros on a Friday can be sold for one euro on the following Wednesday, and the regulators who approved the sale will call it a success story. The gap between those two numbers was not fraud, and it was not even... more
This GP and LP institutional analysis details the mechanical valuation of distressed legal claims and residual resolution exposures across multiple sovereign jurisdictions. We examine how the formal mechanism of suspensive effect leaves favorable fir... more
A court can rule that a government seized seventeen billion dollars illegally. That ruling, by itself, does not put a single dollar back in anyone's account. The bonds are still worth zero. The reason they are still worth zero, despite a court saying... more
The interest rate was generous. Fixed for a decade, with no principal due for that first decade, priced years before the cost of money started climbing. The borrower never missed a payment. The loan was never delinquent, never restructured, never fla... more
This GP and LP institutional analysis details the mechanical structure of relationship-priced lending models and their conversion into structural deposit concentration risks. We examine how counting uncontracted deposit balances as underwriting suppo... more
This GP and LP institutional analysis details the mechanical structure of network-correlated bank runs within concentrated commercial liabilities. We examine how standard liquidity stress testing frameworks optimized for slow retail withdrawals compl... more
The bank's loan book was not impaired. The securities portfolio did not have the duration mismatch that had destroyed its peer two days earlier. What the bank had—and what closed it in forty-eight hours—was a deposit base where approximately ninety p... more
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A rigorous, data-driven examination of high-profile financial collapses and frauds, with a focus on how complex governance gaps, independent verification failures, and incentive structures allow losses to escalate. Across episodes, the analysis dissects three interlocking failure modes—front-to-back office misalignment, opaque funding/transactions, and profit-driven narratives—that turn near-misses into long-running crises. The host translates archival cases into practical due diligence questions for GP/LP managers, risk teams, and auditors, providing concrete controls and checklists to spot similar patterns in today's deals. Noteworthy is the methodical autopsy approach, the clear emphasis on structure and process over headlines, and the e... more
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