YPF paid Exmar US$150mn to walk away from its Tango FLNG bet
Argentina's YPF signed a 10-year, US$1.1bn LNG deal priced at $10.5/MMBTU, then cancelled when prices hit $3.50 — the real cost reached US$259mn.
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The 73-year-old Ballymena bus builder — family covering losses for over a year — collapsed in September 2019 as diesel-to-electric transition slowed UK orders.
Lire le casTomorrowland Brasil cancelled its second day after mud, queues and gridlock on day one
Rain wrecked the site and videos of mud, long queues and parking chaos flooded the festival's own page — day two of the R$250 million event was called off.
Lire le casTwo insurers of Thailand's richest man sought liquidation over Covid policies
Southeast Insurance and Thai Insurance sold 300-baht Covid policies paying 50,000 baht — then Delta and Omicron claims pushed them to cease operations.
Lire le casTelstra's support chatbot Codi kept users from humans — customers called it a moron
Telstra's 'AI' assistant couldn't tell the name Paris from the city, looped on questions and blocked transfers — one customer asked for a human 15 times.
Lire le casSterling First sold retirees 40-year leases, then kept selling under a new name
The 'smart way to retire' took $18.5M from elderly Australians, then collapsed — with 38 more families signed up via Silverlink after ASIC's stop order.
Lire le casSingPost fired its group CEO and CFO over falsified e-commerce shipment data
A February whistleblower report on falsified international e-commerce parcel data ended in December with SingPost firing three senior executives at once.
Lire le casSigna, Austria's biggest corporate bust, entered self-administration owing billions
Rene Benko's €27 billion property and retail empire entered self-administration in December 2023, leaving half-finished landmarks across Europe.
Lire le casShinhan got a wrist-slap over Lime fund misselling after agreeing to repay up to 75%
The FSS handed Shinhan's chairman an admonition and its bank CEO a warning over ₩276.9B of Lime fund sales, lighter than first signalled.
Lire le casKorea's watchdog fined and banned the auditors of Samsung BioLogics's inflated books
The SFC ruled BioLogics's 2015 profit jump intentional, fined Samjong KPMG ₩170M with a five-year ban and barred Deloitte Anjin for three.
Lire le casRodovias do Tietê's highway bet ended with 15,300 bondholders taking the company
The concessionaire that paid R$542 million for a 415km highway defaulted on R$1.5 billion of debentures — and its creditors got court approval to seize control.
Lire le casRobinsons, Singapore's 162-year-old department store, liquidated with two stores left
Al-Futtaim paid $600M for Robinsons in 2008; after six loss years it put the 162-year-old chain into liquidation in October 2020.
Lire le casRevolut called a qualified audit opinion a clean bill of health — its board was furious
BDO could not verify £477 million — 75% of Revolut's 2021 revenue; the fintech spun it as praise, and accounting experts called the statement bizarre.
Lire le casNCLAT ruled Religare's Ligare 'loan' was round-tripping and scrapped the insolvency
A 2009 MoU that moved ₹3.6 crore out of Ligare Aviation within 24 hours was branded a sham — and the insolvency case built on it collapsed in 2026.
Lire le casRaízen took its $12.5 billion debt pile into out-of-court restructuring
The Cosan-Shell ethanol giant filed to restructure about $12.5 billion of debt after expansion, a failed second-ethanol bet and rising rates.
Lire le casRaine scooters 'hibernated' with $500,000 of Kickstarter money spent
The Melbourne e-scooter that hit its crowdfunding goal in 43 minutes told backers it was 'hibernating' — Kickstarter backers get no refunds, and no scooter.
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The NZ modular builder signed a new customer for a $56,000 deposit days after a shareholder email flagged serious mismanagement — and liquidated a month later.
Lire le casThai dessert shop's 'we patented Pang Cha' post forced a national apology
Lukkaithong announced it had 'patented' the words Pang Cha — the name of a common Thai dessert — and spent days of uproar before apologising.
Lire le casTickets.ie collapsed owing festival organisers €1.4m days after their events
Oshi Software (Tickets.ie) ceased trading on 2 June 2026; 34 organisers are owed €1.4m and liquidators are probing a €1m account they claim is theirs.
Lire le casOla's founder pivoted to EVs — the $7.3B ride-hailing leader is now valued at $70M
Vanguard marked Ola down to $70M in June 2026 as revenue fell 42%, losses doubled and Rapido took the ride-hailing market Aggarwal stopped defending.
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