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

Quote from turkeyneck:

Will UBS let it slide if the trade was UP $20bn?

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.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

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

There's a bit of a difference in time served in Changi Prison (Singapore) opposed to time served in Switzerland.
 
Quote from turkeyneck:

Will UBS let it slide if the trade was UP $20bn?

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:
 
Quote from 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:


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.
 
Quote from Red_Ink_inc:

There's a bit of a difference in time served in Changi Prison (Singapore) opposed to time served in Switzerland.
He was arrested and charged in the UK so no Swiss prison.
 
Quote from Martinghoul:

As I said, it's a rumor, so treat with a pinch of salt.

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.
 
Quote from Dragons Teeth:

He was arrested and charged in the UK so no Swiss prison.

In the UK he will be in an open prison within 6 months and released after 12 months.
 
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