Kweku Adoboli, 31 year old ETF trader held over $2bn rogue trade

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by ASusilovic, Sep 15, 2011.

  1. Clearly these banks are being run by overeducated imbeciles.

    Further confirms that 99% of them are grossly overpaid. What a racket.

    Nice that they hired the guy, but to not have him on 24/7 watch was the act of a 'tard.
     
    #21     Sep 15, 2011

  2. At a price tag of mere 2 billion dollars. Not too shabby.
     
    #22     Sep 15, 2011
  3. It helps immensely.
     
    #23     Sep 15, 2011
  4. Tru dat.. tru dat..

    Look at the red necks and white trash in America...

    They are worse than some blacks and other minorities...
     
    #24     Sep 15, 2011
  5. if I was a shareholder, Id demand all the execs be fired for gross incompetence.
     
    #25     Sep 15, 2011
  6. What to do... Blacks now have control of the presidency of the United states, have top trading jobs in the city of London, opportunity to blow 2 billion buckeroos...can't blame poor whitey sitting at home in his rat infested council flat for getting a bit jealous, its just human nature.
     
    #26     Sep 15, 2011
  7. Kweku was a director on a delta1 ETF desk. These guys have no discretion, so it looks pretty open -> shut case. Obviously is speaks more poorly of UBS' internal controls. HTF do you let a guy spreading ETF against index hide these positions?

    I know an MBS director at UBS and she's terrified that they're going to shutter a lot of desks because of this news.
     
    #27     Sep 15, 2011
  8. Firstly, innocent until proven guilty. But if it's true, it's easy to hide stuff, if you come from middle office, which both he and Kerviel did.
     
    #28     Sep 15, 2011
  9. They're both lucky they're not subject to Napoleonic-laws. :p
     
    #29     Sep 15, 2011
  10. Nick Leeson served 3.5 years(of a 6.5 year sentence) for his rogue trades....lets see how much time a black man gets for doing the same crime. :p
     
    #30     Sep 15, 2011