CT4N ceased trading, making most of its 76 staff redundant
The Nottingham bus operator, approved for a CVA in October 2025, halted trading as fuel, insurance, maintenance and staffing costs overwhelmed it.
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The FMC fined Cosco $24,328 over detention and demurrage invoicing; 223 days of non-payment drew a threat of up to $16.7m in civil penalties.
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Maine's regulators unanimously denied Central Maine Power's $69.3M temporary rate increase; CMP then paused hiring and grid projects.
Read the caseChip.de wrapped Stiftung Warentest winners in affiliate links; Frankfurt court banned it
chip.de republished Stiftung Warentest winners with commission links and unlicensed logos — and lost in full at the Frankfurt Regional Court.
Read the caseChina's life-size Titanic replica ran out of money before it ever opened
An entrepreneur bet his hydropower fortune on a full-size Titanic tourist ship in Sichuan; eleven years on, its rusting hull sits abandoned with vast debts.
Read the caseChelsea posted English football's biggest annual loss, £355m, on a £1.52B squad
Uefa figures showed Chelsea lost £355m before tax in 2024-25, English football's largest annual loss, as wages and costs outran revenue.
Read the caseCF Montreal retired the Impact name against 2,000 petitioning fans — and met mockery
Montreal's MLS club rebranded from the Impact to Club de Foot Montreal in January 2021 over a 2,000-signature petition; fans jeered the crest.
Read the caseIndia's CCI broke a Japanese car-carrier cartel; NYK's confession waived its fine
CCI's 2022 order hit four Japanese car-carrier lines over cartelized routes from India; whistleblower NYK's ₹38-crore penalty was fully waived.
Read the caseBrightline dropped the Virgin Trains USA name — and got sued for $251M
The Florida rail operator claimed the pandemic damaged the Virgin brand; Virgin Enterprises called the claim 'cynical and spurious' and sued for $251.3M.
Read the caseMinute Media's $250M VideoVerse deal unravelled into forged-signature allegations
India's celebrated AI-clipping exit fell apart within a year: investors unpaid, a $64M recovery suit, forged loan documents alleged, and the CEO out.
Read the caseUlster Bank chased Ireland's bubble with 100% mortgages - then left the Republic
RBS's Ulster Bank pioneered 100% LTV mortgages and banked developers through the Irish bubble; £15bn of parent bailouts later, NatWest wound it down.
Read the caseTwitter's morale cratered under Dorsey and Agrawal — before Musk ever arrived
Internal surveys from 2019 to 2022 show engagement down 13 points and company confidence down 24 as weak leadership drained the workforce
Read the caseA data center power outage broke TikTok's first weekend under its new US owners
TikTok USDS stayed silent through days of '0 views' panics and login failures, letting censorship conspiracy theories fill its explanation vacuum
Read the caseRemitly killed Passbook, its immigrant banking neobank, after three years
Launched in 2020 to bank the immigrant community, Passbook never overlapped enough with Remitly's remittance customers and closed to new accounts by May 1
Read the casePremier FX told customers funds were FSCS-protected — none of it was true
The FCA censured Premier FX for falsely claiming customer funds were segregated and FSCS-protected; with the firm in liquidation, no fine was possible.
Read the caseFCA fined Pembrokeshire Mortgage Centre £2.35M for bad British Steel pension advice
The firm advised 420 people to leave guaranteed pensions — 93% to transfer, 60% unsuitably — earning £2M in fees before landing in liquidation
Read the caseParker, the e-commerce corporate card fintech, filed Chapter 7 after its exit collapsed
The YC-backed card startup for e-commerce brands raised $200M, then a nearly $90M acquisition fell through and it filed Chapter 7 within three weeks
Read the caseOld Glory Bank's crypto SPAC merger died at the Fed, leaving wind-down on the table
The 'pro-America' online bank co-founded by Ben Carson and Sean Spicer scrapped its Nasdaq listing after the Federal Reserve declined to approve it.
Read the caseA 90-second power cut at one rail control centre paralysed North West trains
Network Rail's Manchester control centre lost power for 90 seconds; backup failed to engage, signalling broke, and chaos spread across the region.
Read the caseM&T's botched People's United conversion locked customers out of their money
M&T's $7.6B People's United conversion left customers without account access over Labor Day 2022, drawing Connecticut's AG and Senator Blumenthal.
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