Credit Suisse and Nomura warn of losses after $20bn stock fire sale
- a major Prime Brokerage Client defaults on their Margin Calls and they dump the shares that it was holding into the market to cover their exposure on.ft.com/3waENaK
Archegos - read as "Arch Egos" - is a family office that manages the wealth of Bill Hwang, a “Tiger cub” alumnus of Julian Robertson’s legendary Tiger Management hedge fund
It had about $10bn of assets last week according to prime brokers
New York-based Hwang previously ran the Tiger Asia hedge fund, but he returned cash to investors in 2012 when he admitted to wire fraud relating to Chinese bank stocks
And let us say that they develop competing self-driving systems
"A" has started earlier and has built up more experience, and eventually reaches a 6-Nines level of safety performance
Let us define 6-Nines here as the condition where the expected safety level is 99.999999% and the risk of a serious adverse event like a death has declined to a chance of 0.000001% or 1 in 10,000,000 miles driven
"Z" has started later but has built up experience at the same rate over time, and when A reaches a 6-Nines level of safety performance Z is able to claim a 4-Nines level of safety performance
Which means that Z's risk of a serious adverse event has declined to 1 in 100,000 miles
Volkswagen Group said it will claim damages from former CEO Martin Winterkorn and former Audi boss Rupert Stadler, as the company tries to draw a line under its diesel cheating scandal europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-…
The automaker's supervisory board has concluded that Winterkorn breached his duties of care from 27 July 27 2015 . . .
. . . by failing to comprehensively and promptly clarify the circumstances behind the use of unlawful software functions in 2.0-liter TDI diesel engines sold in the North American market between 2009 and 2015, VW said in a statement on Friday