The Spider Network by David Enrich

The Spider Network by David Enrich

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.

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 expose * 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 *

DAVID ENRICH is the Finance Editor at the New York Times. His coverage of the Libor scandal, based partly on years of secret access to Tom Hayes and his family, won the Gerald Loeb Award for feature writing in 2016.

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ISBN 13	9780753557501
ISBN 10	0753557509
Titel	The Spider Network
Autor	David Enrich
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Ebury Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-03-23
Seitenanzahl	496
Preise	Long-listed for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 (UK)
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