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根据英国卫报报道，由于长期以来普华永道会计师事务所在出具投行JP Morgan的审计报告中，没能把其在英国伦敦的属于客户的资产从一行本身的基金分离开来，所造成不必要的混乱可能已在2008年十月份的金融风暴顶点导致了该银行的崩盘，当时在JP Morgan的期货和期权的柜台有230亿美元属于客户的钱，大部分为对冲基金。因为这事普华永道可能会面临高额罚款，具体金额有多少，卫报并没有提到。当年的安达信就是因为安然事件，被股东告发，最终导致其全球业务关门或并购，使得当年全球最牛的咨询及审计公司最终从人们视线中消失。本次的普华永道所涉及的公司也不小啊，而且把客户资金当成公司资产从而美化公司的财务报表，以骗取更多的投资者和对冲基金，将来会不会有客户（对冲基金）和股东对普华永道提起诉讼，现在还不得而知。
无独有偶，同样事情也发生赞Lehman Brothers身上，在2008年公司垮台后，大批对冲基金被拖入成本高昂的，持久的诉讼程序中。
Auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers admitted to years of mistakes relating to the failure of investment bank JP Morgan to ensure that billions of pounds of its clients' assets had been properly ring-fenced.
PwC is now expected to face a heavy fine over its role in the client asset scandal which could have wrought unnecessary mayhem had the bank collapsed at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008. At that point, JP Morgan's futures and options desk held $23bn (£14bn) of client money, largely belonging to hedge funds, which was not segregated from the bank's own funds.
Similar ring-fencing failures at Lehman Brothers left scores of hedge funds ensnared in costly and protracted litigation after the Wall Street firm's collapse in September 2008. Confusion and litigation over unsegregated client assets at Lehman Brothers greatly exacerbated the shockwaves of panic that reverberated through the global financial markets at the time.
Today assets estimated at more than £50bn, largely owned by hedge funds, are believed to be held with investment banks through their broker-dealing desks in London.
Last year JP Morgan was given a record fine of £33.3m by the City watchdog, Financial Services Authority, for failing to take proper care of client assets.
The regulator concluded: "In the event of the insolvency of JP Morgan Securities, the risk to client money held by it … was unprecedented in scale … Had the firm become insolvent at any time during this period, this client money would have been at risk of loss."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/busine ... oopers-clent-assets
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