La banque britannique HSBC s’est acoquinée pendant des années avec des trafiquants de drogue et des terroristes; elle s’en est sortie sans dommage.

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

People may have outrage fatigue about Wall Street, and more stories about billionaire greedheads getting away with more stealing often cease to amaze. But the HSBC case went miles beyond the usual paper-pushing, keypad-punching­ sort-of crime, committed by geeks in ties, normally associated­ with Wall Street. In this case, the bank literally got away with murder – well, aiding and abetting it, anyway.