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Jared Bibler is a graduate of MIT, where he studied engineering. He is also a CFA charterholder with nearly 20 years of broad experience in the global financial markets. Jared started his career in Boston and New York, where he worked as a consultant to a Wall Street giant.
Following that, he moved to Iceland where he supported the Icelandic pension funds’ foreign investments. Unhappy with ...
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Axiom Award-winner – Silver Medal, International Business Previous medalists include Nobel laureate Robert Shiller, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, and philanthropist and investor Ray Dalio
"I found myself unable to put it down." James A. Fok, author of Financial Cold War
"Perhaps the most important book I have read this year." Rory Sullivan, CEO Chronos Sustainability
"Magnificent, horrifying" Bill Myers, US journalist
"To understand how the world really works, you need to understand Iceland’s Secret." The European
"Like The Big Short, but bigger." Business Matters
"Unlike most business books, it's very accessible to the lay reader and even incorporates a sense of intrigue and action that makes it a top recommendation." Midwest Book Review
"A unique perspective on events." Matthew Partridge, MoneyWeek
"Few people are better-equipped to chronicle this extraordinary saga than Bibler. … His book is a blend of candid personal memoir and a Nordic noir that reveals his jaw-dropping discoveries as a regulator. … Iceland’s Secret is a fantastic read. An eye-opener and a cautionary tale, it is evidence of the brazen and protracted frauds that can occur if bankers are given a free pass by a country’s journalists, regulators, politicians and government." Ian Fraser, Financial Times
“[Iceland’s Secret] goes beyond a mere portrayal of a specific crime and its far-reaching ramifications and becomes a moral tale about the depths of human greed … an admirably rigorous account of a complex event of great contemporary importance.” Kirkus Reviews
"A killer read from the heart of Iceland's epic financial meltdown. A thrilling saga of crooked bankers and the dogged investigators who took them down." Tom Ashbrook, U.S. broadcasting legend
"A new genre is born: Nordic noir but with bankers going to jail. It reads like a thriller--but amazingly it's all true." Russell Napier, bestselling author of Anatomy of the Bear
With stock markets at historic highs, memories of the 2008 crash are in the air again. Heady markets can hide a multitude of sins. One of the biggest from the '08 era is only now being fully told. In ...
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With stock markets at historic highs, memories of the 2008 crash are in the air again. Heady markets can hide a multitude of sins. One of the biggest from the '08 era is only now being fully told. In ...
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Kirkus Reviews
The book goes beyond a mere portrayal of a specific crime and its far-reaching ramifications and becomes a moral tale about the depths of human greed. It shows how, even in a nation as thoroughly ...
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Authority Magazine
I wrote Iceland’s Secret because I wanted readers to see by example what could happen if we continue to let our financial systems run amok — that we all have an interest in a clean, transparent, ...
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The London Economic
The Icelandic financial crisis of 2008 may, at first glance, seem just to be a footnote in the wider context of the 2007-9 global financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession, but this couldn’t ...
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Business Matters
In this exclusive interview, Bibler, whose new book Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con provides a cautionary tale for the world, speaks out about his investigation and ...
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The European
Only through such reforms can we be more assured that the global financial system is fit for purpose. While those changes that have taken place are to be welcomed, continuing scandals in financial ...
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HR Grapevine
In this article, Bibler, author of new book Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con—a revelatory forensic examination of one of the world’s largest financial ...
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BBC Radio Guernsey
From 2:17:46 to 2:26:17, Claire Cathcart discusses financial crime with Jared Bibler, author of Iceland's Secret.
Cointelegraph Magazine
Bibler, who later joined the Fjarmalaeftirlitid (FME) investigation into the collapse, had quit his stressful Wall Street job in 2004 and moved to the tiny country after vacationing there. He ended ...
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Yahoo Finance
As recounted in thrilling detail in the new book “Iceland’s Secret,” the Icelandic banking scandal was a beast all its own, a whole-cloth fraud that originated a full decade before the ...
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The Kuderna Podcast
Jared Bibler is the author of the new book, ICELAND’s SECRET: The Untold Story of The World’s Biggest Con. Bibler is a graduate of MIT, who began his career as a software engineer. He ...
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The Bookwatch
Unlike most business books, it's very accessible to the lay reader and even incorporates a sense of intrigue and action that makes it a top recommendation for general-interest collections, as well.
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Financial Times
Now, in his recent book, Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con, he says the country's approach has neither cleaned out the Augean stables of Icelandic finance nor slain "the ...
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Library of Mistakes
In this first episode of the Library of Mistakes podcast series, Russell Napier explores the 2008 financial collapse of Iceland with Jared Bibler, author of Iceland's Secret – The Untold Story Of ...
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Perlego
he book is built around my personal story; I worked in one of those banks and saw some bad things. I couldn’t sleep at night, but I had no idea how much bigger it was. I quit my job on 3 October ...
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Axiom Business Book Awards
Iceland's Secret is the winner of silver medal in International Business / Globalization category) at the Axiom 2022 Business Book Awards.
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World Finance
When Jared Bibler visited Iceland for the first time in 2002, he couldn’t imagine that one day he would become an Icelander himself. A native of Massachusetts in the US, he was working for an ...
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