Too Big to Jail - Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century

<p><b>'Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you' - Oliver Bullough, author of <i>Butler to the World</i></b><br><br>Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank’, the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for ‘drug kingpins and rogue nations’. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world, between 2003 to 2010, HSBC allowed El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most notorious and murderous criminal organizations in the world, to turn its ill-gotten money into clean dollars and thereby grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen.<br><br>How did a bank, which boasts ‘we’re committed to helping protect the world’s financial system on which millions of peopl