BankruptcyDB
200 corporate bankruptcies, sovereign defaults, bank failures, and fraud cases spanning over a century of financial history.
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Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the largest bankruptcy filing...
Enron
Enron filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, with 63.4 billion in assets, then the largest bankru...
WorldCom
WorldCom filed for bankruptcy on July 21, 2002, with 107 billion in assets, surpassing Enron as the ...
Bernie Madoff
Bernie Madoff operated the largest Ponzi scheme in history, estimated at 65 billion in paper wealth....
FTX
FTX, once the third largest cryptocurrency exchange, filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022. Foun...
Greece Sovereign
Greece defaulted on its sovereign debt in March 2012, the largest sovereign default in history by fa...
Detroit
The City of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013, the largest municipal bankruptc...
Wirecard
Wirecard filed for insolvency on June 25, 2020. The German payment processor had been valued at 24 b...
Barings Bank
Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, collapsed in February 1995 after trader Nick Leeso...