Royal Bank of Scotland — £400 million

Santander, owner of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley — £2.08 billion

HSBC — £667 million

Man Group — £240 million

BNP Paribas — £314 million

The Wunderkinder Foundation, Stephen Spielberg's charity to which he contributes more than $1 million every year

Société Générale — £9 million

Nomura Holdings — £198 million

Natixis — £403.7 million

Axa — "less than" £89.7 million

Bramdean Asset Management run by Nicola Horlick — £13 million

Fortis — £890 million

Dexia — £76 million

BBVA, Spanish bank — £270 million

Unicredit — £67.2 million

Banco Popolare, Italian bank — £61 million

Reichmuth, a private Swiss bank — £217 million

Benbassat & Cie, a private Swiss bank — £624 million

Neue Privat Bank, a Swiss bank — £3.3 million

Fairfield Greenwich Group, a hedge fund — £5 billion

EIM, chaired by Arpad Busson — £220 million

Banque Benedict Hentsch Fairfield Partners, a Swiss private bank — £31.7 million

Union Bancaire Privée, a Swiss private bank — £567 million

Banque Mirabaud, a Swiss bank — £5 million

Harel Insurance, part of Israeli Harel Group — £7 million

Ascot Partners — £1.2 billion

Access International Advisors — £933.4 million

Maxam Capital Management — £186.4 million

Fix Asset Management, New York hedge fund manager — £262 million

Royal Dutch Shell — £29.05 million exposure via Dutch pension fund

South Korea — £63 million

The Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, a US charity — £5.3 million

Hedge fund owned by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. — more than $3 billion

Wealthy individuals with potential exposures:

Norman Braman, former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles American football team.

Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey Democrat senator and his family foundation

Carl Shapiro, founder of womenswear company Kay Windsor and philanthropist — £326.6 million

Vincent Tchenguiz, the property magnate who is one of Britain’s richest men, is understood to have invested £40 million with Bramdean.

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, founded by the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate to fund international youth programmes

Fred Wilpon, owner of the New York Mets baseball team.

Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News and Boston Properties real estate company

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