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

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

  1. sprstpd

    sprstpd

    Yes, I'm pretty sure there would be headlines such as "UBS Reports Record Profits!" Bonuses would be plentiful and everyone lived happily ever after.
     
    #71     Sep 16, 2011
  2. Who took the $2bn on the other side of the trade?
     
    #72     Sep 16, 2011
  3. There's a bit of a difference in time served in Changi Prison (Singapore) opposed to time served in Switzerland.
     
    #73     Sep 17, 2011
  4. UBS's ass cheeks.
     
    #74     Sep 17, 2011
  5. #75     Sep 17, 2011
  6. Businessman

    Businessman

    Billion dollar rouge trade is profitable-> Trader gets a 68 acre mansion and gets to bang bitches and bimbos every night :cool:

    Billion dollar rouge trade is a loss-> Trader gets 6x8 prison cell, becomes the prison bitch and is banged by Buba every night :eek:
     
    #76     Sep 17, 2011

  7. Interesting turn of events.

    The banger becomes the bangee. What goes around comes. It's karma bitch. You can't escape karma. Be prepared to do some spreads of another kind.

    He has nice grills nonetheless! LOL!!

    I bet he has nice rims that you could spin also.
     
    #77     Sep 17, 2011
  8. He was arrested and charged in the UK so no Swiss prison.
     
    #78     Sep 17, 2011
  9. The loss resulted from unauthorized speculative trading in various S&P 500, DAX, and EuroStoxx index futures over the last three months. The positions taken were within the normal business flow of a large global equity trading house as part of a properly hedged portfolio. However, the true magnitude of the risk exposure was distorted because the positions had been offset in our systems with fictitious, forward-settling, cash ETF positions, allegedly executed by the trader. These fictitious trades concealed the fact that the index futures trades violated UBS’s risk limits.
     
    #79     Sep 18, 2011
  10. robbo

    robbo

    In the UK he will be in an open prison within 6 months and released after 12 months.
     
    #80     Sep 18, 2011