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Former Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein.

I can smell another financial crash coming, says former Goldman Sachs chief

Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 financial crisis, says the world is “due for a kind of reckoning”.

  • Todd Gillespie and Sridhar Natarajan

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JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has described Bitcoin as "worthless", but will still allow clients to buy and sell the cryptocurrency.

‘People doing dumb things’: Wall Street boss Jamie Dimon warns of AI frenzy

The JPMorgan Chase CEO thinks the impact of artificial intelligence on software companies might be the trigger for a wave of loan defaults, and sees parallels to the GFC.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Peter Crown’s $101 million Southern Highlands property empire has collapsed.

The many lives of the mysterious businessman trying to build his own town in NSW

As receivers move in on Peter Crown’s $150 million property empire, questions are raised about how much his lenders knew about the enigmatic entrepreneur. Not much, as it turns out.

  • Lucy Macken
Private credit is booming, partly because super funds are piling into the sector.

Fresh warning to a $200 billion industry loaded with danger

Corporate cop Joe Longo says capital markets are the “lifeblood” of the economy and ASIC wants them to grow, but emerging risks needed attention.

  • Clancy Yeates
Markets have lately been jittery about the risks posed by private credit.

The $4.6 trillion market that has watchdogs nervous

The failure of two little-known US companies has raised questions about a booming yet opaque part of finance, in which most of us are invested in via super.

  • Clancy Yeates
America’s most influential banker sent markets on edge with his “cockroach” warning.

‘Cockroach’ warning by America’s top banker sparks fears about the financial system

A recent spate of corporate failures has raised concerns of a financial bubble created by non-bank lenders.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Super funds have been putting more of their assets into private credit

Warning to DIY super funds over booming $200 billion sector

Investors are piling into the private credit market to fill the gap left by banks, but a new report warns the funds are concentrated in higher risk lending.

  • Clancy Yeates
An impression of the technology and education park as shown in Silicon Highlands proposal.

‘Legacy project’: New private school, hospital and uni plans hang by a thread

Before receivers descended on tech entrepreneur Peter Crown’s Berrima property empire he had some fairly grand plans that included flipping much of it, and proposing a technology park called Silicon Highlands.

  • Lucy Macken

The cautionary tale of the man who borrowed $120m with interest rates of up to 72 per cent

Peter Crown’s property play for one of the largest land holdings in the Southern Highlands offers a lesson in what can go right - and wrong - amid a boom in private credit.

  • Lucy Macken