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2008
Tagged: 2008
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Opes Prime: how a stock-lending firm turned retail investors into unsecured creditors overnight
In March 2008, Opes Prime collapsed owing nearly $1 billion. The retail investors who thought they owned shares discovered they had signed them away. This is how it happened.
By Ray Petrakis
2008 — articles