HSBC launched the Zing money-transfer app in January 2024 and shut it a year later
Built on a $35M Monese bet to take on Wise and Remitly, Zing was closed in 2025 after a strategic review under HSBC's new CEO.
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300 CASOS RECENTES · ATUALIZADOSHSBC sold its Argentina bank for $550M and booked a $1B loss
In April 2024 HSBC agreed to sell HSBC Argentina to Galicia for $550M, taking a $1B charge because peso swings kept distorting group earnings.
Ler o casoHaidilao raised hotpot prices 6% as China reopened — a Weibo storm forced them back down
Reopening after lockdown, Haidilao lifted prices about 6%; boycott threats flooded Weibo, and the chain apologized, restored prices and discounted takeaway 31%.
Ler o casoGreen Mountain's founder says his 2007 CEO pick cost it its culture before a 2015 sale
Robert Stiller writes in Fortune that he hired Larry Blanford in 2007 on intuition, without a shared vision; by 2015 the firm was sold to JAB.
Ler o casoGrace Technology inflated up to 41% of sales, fooled its auditor and was delisted
A Tokyo-listed maker of equipment manuals booked early and fictitious revenue from its 2016 listing; a January 2022 investigation led to delisting.
Ler o casoGoogle Fiber quit Louisville 18 months after launch when its shallow trenches failed
Cable laid two inches deep started surfacing; Google Fiber said fixing it meant rebuilding the network, so it shut down Louisville service on 15 April 2019.
Ler o casoGogoro's CEO resigned as Taiwan probed imported parts claimed as local to win subsidies
In September 2024 Gogoro's founder-CEO stepped down as Taiwan probed scooters that allegedly used Chinese parts under local-content subsidies.
Ler o casoGitHub went CEO-less inside Microsoft's CoreAI — outages, a breach and an exodus followed
The Verge reported in May 2026 that GitHub had no CEO since 2025, lost leaders and engineers, and suffered major outages and a 3,800-repo breach.
Ler o casoGeico skimped on IT while Progressive priced smarter, and lost the No. 2 spot
A Fortune column argues Berkshire's Geico under-invested in technology; since 2020 Progressive nearly doubled its policies and Geico shrank about 15%.
Ler o casoFrontier tried to charge from $39 to keep the middle seat empty, and dropped it in days
In May 2020 Frontier announced a 'More Room' fee from $39 a flight to block the middle seat; lawmakers attacked it and Frontier withdrew it two days later.
Ler o casoFord quit making cars in Brazil after burning through nearly $12 billion
Slow to pivot its money-losing compact lineup to SUVs, Ford shut all three Brazilian plants in January 2021 after a decade of losses.
Ler o casoEtude House went capital impaired with equity of minus 6.6 billion won
Four years of losses left K-beauty brand Etude with liabilities of ₩56.6B against ₩49.9B of assets — the only capital-impaired unit among AmorePacific's 37.
Ler o casoEmirates advertised flat-bed business class on New Zealand flights and lost at tribunal
A New Zealand tribunal ordered Emirates to pay NZ$13,555 to a passenger who got older seats and no minibar or working entertainment, calling the ads misleading.
Ler o casoEdison Motors' bid for SsangYong collapsed when its consortium missed a ₩304.9bn payment
Named preferred bidder in October 2021, the Edison Motors consortium missed the 25 March 2022 payment deadline; SsangYong ended the deal.
Ler o casoDoosan quit its Doota duty-free business after 70 billion won of losses in 3.5 years
Launched in May 2016, Doosan's duty-free stores lost over ₩70 billion; in October 2019 the group ended the business despite a 2018 turnaround.
Ler o casoDMart Ready shut 232 stores, then quit five more cities as quick commerce closed in
India's DMart kept six-hour grocery delivery while rivals promised 10 minutes: pickup points cut by 40%, five tier-II cities dropped in 2025, losses up a third.
Ler o casoDiamond Bank chased retail leadership, hit 42% bad loans and was absorbed by Access Bank
Moody's said excess risk, a weak board and heavy oil and gas lending turned N28.5 billion profit in 2013 into a 2017 loss before the 2019 merger.
Ler o casoDeloitte's Medicaid eligibility systems kept misfiring across states
A KFF Health News investigation found Deloitte-built Medicaid eligibility systems in nine states sent wrong notices and dropped eligible people.
Ler o casoDeloitte fined in Kenya after unverified Chase Bank cash helped lure $40.3M of bond money
Kenya's markets regulator fined Deloitte about $84,000 for not verifying a central bank balance Chase Bank claimed, which overstated liquidity in its bond memo.
Ler o casoDeliveroo's London IPO fell 30% on day one, hitting customers who bought in
Deliveroo priced its March 2021 float at £7.6B despite fund-manager warnings on rider pay; it fell as much as 30%, wiping out about £2B.
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