Big Finance

The key players

Global financial assets

Financial assets

Sources: (Deutsche Bank, 2013; TNI, 2018)

Growth of SHADOW BANKING

Source: (FSB, 2018)

TOP 13 FINANCIAL GIANTS

Source: (FSB, 2018, Phillips, 2018)

OWNERS OF TOP 17 ASSET MANAGEMENT FIRMS

199 directors control $41.1 trillion wealth

12/17 represented on G30

and/or Trilateral Commission

Source: (Phillips, 2018)

OILED BY CENTRAL BANKS

Sources: Investopedia, 2018, FT, 2017/2018, Central Banks, 2018

Key Fact
$14tn of Quantitative Easing made by ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan and the Fed. This is enough money to hand out $16,279 to every person in Europe, the UK, Japan and the USA.

AUDITED BY INSIDERS: THE BIG FOUR

Audited by insiders

Sources: Statista, 2018, FT, 2017

Key Fact
The ‘Big Four’ auditing firms audit more than 97% of US and EU’s largest corporations.

“[Auditors are] the private police force of capitalism.”

– PREM SIKKA

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