The fix : how bankers lied, cheated and colluded to rig the world's most important number
by
 
Vaughan, Liam, 1979- author.

Title
The fix : how bankers lied, cheated and colluded to rig the world's most important number

Author
Vaughan, Liam, 1979- author.

ISBN
9781118995747
 
9781118995730
 
9781118995754

Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 201 pages)

Series
Bloomberg Press

Contents
Introduction -- The end of the world -- Tommy Chocolate -- Beware of Greeks bearing gifts -- A day in the life -- Buy the cash boys a curry! -- Anything with four legs -- No one's clean-clean -- The sheep will follow -- Escape to London -- Goodbye, Big Nose -- The call -- Crossing the Street -- "What the fuck kind of bank is this?" -- Just keep swimming -- The ballad of Diamond Bob -- The switcheroo -- The trial -- Afterword -- Epilogue: the Wild West.

Abstract
"The first thing you think is where's the edge, where can I make a bit more money, how can I push, push the boundaries. But the point is, you are greedy, you want every little bit of money that you can possibly get because, like I say, that is how you are judged, that is your performance metric"--Tom Hayes, 2013 In the midst of the financial crisis, Tom Hayes and his network of traders and brokers from Wall Street's leading firms set to work engineering the biggest financial conspiracy ever seen. As the rest of the world burned, they came together on secret chat rooms and late night phone calls to hatch an audacious plan to rig Libor, the 'world's most important number' and the basis for $350 trillion of securities from mortgages to loans to derivatives. Without the persistence of a rag-tag team of investigators from the U.S., they would have got away with it ... ' The Fix by award-winning Bloomberg journalists Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch, is the inside story of the Libor scandal, told through the journey of the man at the centre of it: a young, scruffy, socially awkward misfit from England whose genius for math and obsessive personality made him a trading phenomenon, but ultimately paved the way for his own downfall. Based on hundreds of interviews, and unprecedented access to the traders and brokers involved, and the investigators who caught up with them, The Fix provides a rare look into the dark heart of global finance at the start of the 21st Century.

Local Note
John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term
Commercial crimes -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
 
Banks and banking -- Corrupt practices -- Case studies.
 
Financial institutions, International -- Corrupt practices -- Case studies.
 
Interest rates.
 
LIBOR market model.
 
Infractions économiques -- Grande-Bretagne -- Études de cas.
 
Banques -- Pratiques déloyales -- Études de cas.
 
Institutions financières internationales -- Pratiques déloyales -- Études de cas.
 
Taux d'intérêt.
 
Modèle de marché LIBOR.
 
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance -- General.
 
Banks and banking -- Corrupt practices
 
Commercial crimes
 
Financial institutions, International -- Corrupt practices
 
Interest rates
 
LIBOR market model

Geographic Term
Great Britain

Genre
Case studies
 
Case studies.

Added Author
Finch, Gavin, 1979-

Electronic Access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118995754


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Online LibraryE-Book593198-1001HV6771 .G7 V38 2017Wiley E-Kitap Koleksiyonu