The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History - Softcover

Enrich, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753557509 ISBN 13: 9780753557501

Verlag: Random House Uk, 2017

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Críticas:

"Anyone with an interest in financial services and in what has gone wrong will find The Spider Network compelling." (Daniel Finkelstein The Times)

"a surprisingly human narrative ... truly memorable ... a vivid depiction of the ethos of the core financial institutions upon which the global economy depends" (New York Times)

"a model of investigative financial writing... a more satisfying read than THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis" (Literary Review)

"will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé" (Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author)

"supremely gripping ... a thrilling tour de force of reporting, revelation and reasoning ... unmissable" (Iain Martin, bestselling author of MAKING IT HAPPEN: FRED GOODWIN, RBS AND THE MEN WHO BLEW UP THE BRITISH ECONOMY)

Reseña del editor:

Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Book Prize!
‘Will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé’ - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author

‘Reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up’ - New York Times book review
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.

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• Verlag: Random House Uk
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0753557509
• ISBN 13: 9780753557501
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496