The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by David Enrich
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Autor: David Enrich
Editura: Virgin Publishing
Limba: Engleza
Nr. pagini: 496
Coperta: Paperback
Dimensiuni: 15.3 x 3.4 x 23.4 cm
An aparitie: 2017
‘Anyone with an interest in financial services and in what has gone wrong will find The Spider Network compelling.’ - Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
‘Will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé’ - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author
‘A gripping narrative ... impressive reporting and writing chops are on full display ... reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up’ - New York Times book review
‘A feat of reporting, and much of it reads like a novel’ - Leigh Gallagher, Washington Post
‘A model of investigative financial writing... a more satisfying read than THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis’ - Literary Review
‘Remarkable’, Sunday Times
‘Jaw-dropping’, Financial Times
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor―the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide―was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated administrators, and that they could reap huge profits by nudging it fractions of a percent to suit their trading portfolios. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of a wild alliance that included a prickly French trader nicknamed “Gollum”; the broker “Abbo,” who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a nervous Kazakh chicken farmer known as “Derka Derka”; a broker known as “Village” (short for “Village Idiot”) who racked up huge expense account bills; an executive called “Clumpy” because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed “Big Nose” who had once been a semi-professional boxer. This group generated incredible riches ―until it all unraveled in spectacularly vicious, backstabbing fashion.
With exclusive access to key characters and evidence, The Spider Network is not only a rollicking account of the scam, but also a provocative examination of a financial system that was crooked throughout.
Virgin Publishing
‘Will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé’ - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author
‘A gripping narrative ... impressive reporting and writing chops are on full display ... reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up’ - New York Times book review
‘A feat of reporting, and much of it reads like a novel’ - Leigh Gallagher, Washington Post
‘A model of investigative financial writing... a more satisfying read than THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis’ - Literary Review
‘Remarkable’, Sunday Times
‘Jaw-dropping’, Financial Times
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor―the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide―was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated administrators, and that they could reap huge profits by nudging it fractions of a percent to suit their trading portfolios. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of a wild alliance that included a prickly French trader nicknamed “Gollum”; the broker “Abbo,” who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a nervous Kazakh chicken farmer known as “Derka Derka”; a broker known as “Village” (short for “Village Idiot”) who racked up huge expense account bills; an executive called “Clumpy” because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed “Big Nose” who had once been a semi-professional boxer. This group generated incredible riches ―until it all unraveled in spectacularly vicious, backstabbing fashion.
With exclusive access to key characters and evidence, The Spider Network is not only a rollicking account of the scam, but also a provocative examination of a financial system that was crooked throughout.
Virgin Publishing
An aparitie | 2017 |
Autor | David Enrich |
Dimensiuni | 15.3 x 3.4 x 23.4 cm |
Editura | Virgin Publishing |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780753557501 |
Limba | Engleza |
Nr pag | 496 |
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