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An Out of Control City Trader: Episode 431

An Out of Control City Trader: Episode 431

UK True Crime Podcast · UK True Crime Podcast

February 18, 202527m 40s

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Show Notes

He was a promising young trader and Kweku Adoboli seemed destined for greatness in the world of finance. A rising star at Swiss bank UBS, his future was limitless. But in September 2011, the world would learn his name for a far darker reason. In a bombshell email, Adoboli confessed to something almost unimaginable: gambling away £1.4 billion of his employer’s money in a series of unauthorized trades that would become one of the biggest losses in financial history.


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