The former boss of Credit Suisse succeeded in his bluff by raising money through a SPAC, a kind of blank check company introduced on the stock market with the only assets of the CVs and reputation of its initiators. Tidjane Thiam’s Special purpose acquisition company (Spac), launched in early February 2021, with the media drum…...
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