The fix : how bankers lied, cheated and colluded to rig the world's most important number / Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch.
- Title
- The fix : how bankers lied, cheated and colluded to rig the world's most important number / Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch.
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- Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xii, 201 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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. [This book] 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."--
- Series statement
- Bloomberg Press
- Subject
- Bank
- Wirtschaftskriminalität
- Libor
- 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
- Banks and banking > Corrupt practices
- Commercial crimes
- Financial institutions, International > Corrupt practices
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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